This Volume is dedicated to doctoral work from the AVPhD Network – AVPhD was the name given to an AHRC funded training and support network for all those doing, supervising and examining audio-visual practice based doctorates. The network was launched in September 2005 after it had been suggested that HE institutions were working with a number of different models of the relation between theory and practice, and with differing expectations about what is submissable at PhD level. As a consequence, the AVPhD Network was set up by the University of Westminster to provide collaborative training provision for doctoral students (alongside supervisors and examiners).
Volume 2 was edited by Professor Jon Dovey and associate editor Govinda Dickman. The DVD was originally distributed with a dedicated volume of The Journal of Media Practice Volume 9.1 (March 2008). The DVD of Volume 2 is available for purchase – please contact us if you’d like to buy an individual copy or purchase one for your library.
In addition to this special issue, Screenworks publishes on a rolling basis with each volume running from Sept to August. To submit work please read our submissions guidelines and use our online submission form. If you are interested in submitting your practice and want further advice, then please contact us on admin@screenworks.org.uk with “Submissions” in the subject line.
Format: Experimental
Duration: 9' 27"
Published: March 2008The video 265 Looping Snapshots engages with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), a scientific technique that generates images of the body (and particularly, the brain) for scientific and medical purposes.
Format: Animation (Loop)
Duration: 1′ 13″
Published: March 2008Stop-motion animation of a small white doll: the figure grows from a ball of modelling clay, is cut and sewn shut, and then buried and ‘reborn’, among a nest of white granulated sugar and the dark stain of slut’s wool - the fluffy dust that collects under furniture and along skirting boards.
Format: Single-screen
Duration: 58′ 59″
Published: March 2008Mirror Mirror is a 58min single-screen narrative film that explores whether the two ideas that ‘gender is drag’ and that ‘documentary film is a drag of reality’ can mutually inform and comment upon each other.
Format: Video
Duration: 26' 22"
Published: March 2008The research project considers whether the largely unexplored genre of ethnofictions, as described by visual anthropologist Jean Rouch, offers a means of integrating a hybrid study within drama and ethnography.
Format: Interactive
Duration: 3' 57"
Published: March 2008A "docufragmentary" exploring and the Theatre of the Oppressed’s practices at the point of interaction with peasants of Brazil’s Landless Movement, exploring how these drama techniques really work and in what circumstances and conditions they are applied.
Format: Video
Duration: 13' 25"
Published: March 2008While filming a spiritualist séance, Williams wrestles with the camera's role in shaping the narrative and the audience's perception of reality. The final work blurs the line between documentation and artistic manipulation, leaving viewers to question what they "see."
Format: Video
Duration: 26' 14"
Published: March 2008This film documents audience reactions to "Band in a Bubble" – a three-week event where a band lived and recorded in a transparent studio – as part of a larger exploration of how documentarians can represent a culture where audiences actively engage with and influence the media they consume.
Format: Essay Film
Duration: 30'
Published: March 2008This unconventional film presents a kaleidoscope of images and sounds, collected from the filmmaker's travels across the globe. Edited in a non-linear fashion, the film invites viewers to piece together fragments, creating a tapestry of ideas and emotions that transcend traditional storytelling.
Format: Documentary
Duration: 54' 49"
Published: March 2008A documentary that goes behind the scenes of film collaborations between Spain and Latin America. Using firsthand experience, the film exposes the unequal power dynamics at play and challenges the dominant narratives of these partnerships.
Format: Digital Video
Duration: 4'
Published: March 2008This captivating film takes viewers on a journey through Balfron Tower, a modernist East London landmark, exploring space through framing and reframing, revealing the architect's vision while hinting at an unseen world beyond the frame. The rhythm of the film, driven by sound and editing, emphasises the technological nature of the moving image and the unique "thin space" it creates.