posted on 2019-03-19, 11:26authored byMartin Wood, Leo Berkeley, Smiljana Glisovic
The documentary film 600 Mills was explicitly funded and produced as an academic research project, designed to investigate, through cinematic means, the decline of the textile industry in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. Drawing on the work of Thrift, Deleuze and Guattari, Massumi and others, it is argued that the film production process uses ‘affect’ as a form of sensory knowing that can engage with relevant theory and be used to conceive of film-making as a valid form of academic research. This article discusses the approach taken by three film-maker researchers in making a film that, instead of using the medium to convey information or communicate research findings gathered through other means, seeks to use the creative possibilities of film production to convey knowledge about a complex human, social and historical process.
History
Citation
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 2016, 9 (1-2), pp. 7-31
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Business
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Published in
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
Publisher
Intellect for Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD) network