Special interest group:
Documentary

Convenors:  

• Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex)
• Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick)

Overview

The Documentary SIG aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and researchers to exchange ideas, generate debates, and form collaborations on various aspects of the documentary. Documentary—as a theoretical and epistemological frame—cuts across many different types of film and media. The SIG aims to define it as broadly as possible, engaging with a wide range of emerging ideas and research in this burgeoning field. We invite ideas and contributions from all parts of the world, and actively encourage suggestions for, and participation in, documentary SIG-related events—be they screenings, talks, book launches, discussions, reading groups and the like. We are particularly interested in hearing about projects that place the documentary in dialogue with activist, queer, decolonial, anti-racist, migratory and environmental methods and practices.

Reports on activities

• Report: Book Launch: Intimate Sovereignty by Laliv Melamed (University of California Press, 2023), Queen Mary University London. 8 June 2023.
  
• ​​Documentary SIG Report 2019

Founding members

• Nic Blower (University of Essex)
• Catalin Brylla (Bournemouth University)
• Martin Carter (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)
• Jill Daniels (University of East London)
• Demelza Kooij (Liverpool John Moores University)
• ​Yael Friedman (University of Portsmouth)
• ​Jeffrey Geiger (University of Essex)
• Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey)
• Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University)
• Helen Hughes (University of Surrey)
• Barbara Knorp (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
• Searle Kochberg (University of Portsmouth)
• Kate Nash (University of Leeds)
• Domitilla Olivieri (Utrecht University)
• Ania Ostrowska (University of Southampton)
• Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University)
• Steve Presence (University of the West of England)
• Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)
• Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts London)
• Cecilia Sayad (University of Kent)
• Anna Viola Sborgi (King's College London)​
• Lizzy Thynne (University of Sussex)
• Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews)
• Sue Vice (University of Sheffield)
• Brian Winston (University of Lincoln)
• Nicole Wolf, (University of London)
• Kiki Tianqi Yu (University of the West of Scotland)