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Desktop documentary is a contemporary film and media practice that self-reflexively explores technological limitations of the computer interface and its potentialities in order to create unconventional audio-visual works with elements of documentary and
Luka Bešlagić
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The movement from physical to digital desktop entails a ‘process of reorientation’ which not only reshapes our notion of space but also our sense of ‘gesturality’ and the ‘situatedness’ of our bodies. This is also what may have inspired me to redirect my interest back to the physical desk in this video essay.
Johannes Binotto
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Desktop documentary as scholarly subjectivity: Five approaches
Desktop documentary has gained increasing prominence both within and beyond cinema and media scholarly practice. The recent ascendance of desktop filmmaking prompts an occasion to reflect on the current state of the practice.
Kevin B. Lee, Ariel Avissar
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Desktop documentary: From artefact to artist(ic) emotions
One of the most distinguishing characteristics of desktop docu-mentaries is their affordance of making and presenting a video at the same time: i.e., collapsing boundaries between revealing their thinking and tinkering research process (as unfolding ...
Miklós Kiss
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Narrative and Database in “All That Is Solid”, a Desktop Documentary [PDF]
Abstract This paper proposes to analyze “All that is Solid” by artist and filmmaker Louis Henderson, a documentary film that uses the desktop of the computer as a background for a new kind of narrative structure to unfold. This film will be looked at mainly through Lev Manovich´s notion of the “database as a symbolic form” (MANOVICH, 1999) which the ...
Sara Magno
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Computer Interface as Film: Post-Media Aesthetics of Desktop Documentary [PDF]
This paper explores a recently emerged audiovisual form called desktop documentary, an interdisciplinary computer-based variant of the essay film. As a post-media practice, no longer exclusively dependent on the film medium, desktop filmmaking represents a hybrid audiovisual genre entirely conducted in the digital environment by using and exploiting ...
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Clinical Entrepreneurship: A Student Teacher Assigning Desktop Documentary Making
This study examines a student teacher's assignment of a historical documentary project in her middle school classroom placement. Results reveal that this student teacher and her cooperating teacher collaborated together to assign the project as a means to foster a personal connection with students and that their mutual commitment to this purpose ...
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In Another American Skin: Development of Empathy Through Desktop Documentary Making
This article analyzes a classroom project that integrated desktop documentary making with an educational foundations course in order to foster empathetic development in pre-service teachers toward unfamiliar cultural groups. The project required each tertiary student in the course to create a desktop documentary about the school experience of a ...
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The article examines the particularities of paperwork and documentary support of external communication in the activities of the Nalchik Mountain Court of Words (1871-1918). As record paperwork, the final court reports are considered (desktop logs, books
Alexey Kh. Abazov
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