The Ethics of Documentary Film

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Documentary film has been an important vehicle to interrogate the world since the inception of film more than a hundred years ago. The Ethics of Documentary Film reformulate some of the foundational notions in documentary films studies and practice, relating to archive and the production of knowledge. Published in a particular moment in time, post pandemic and in the middle of the climate change debates and the traumas of new conflicts in the world, it gives voice to all of the important contemporary debates and offers ideas about different international approaches to documentary. With particular focus on the question of to what extent a documentary film can be defined as an ethical project, the various contributions look at issues of history, the hidden stories, and issues of the ethics of representation to provide new insights into the role documentary film can play within society.

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Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award-winning filmmaker and a theorist. She is Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland, and Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes, UK. She is best known for her acclaimed documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower and has written extensively on psychoanalysis and culture. She has edited or co-edited four collections including the Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neo-liberal Hopelessness (Edinburgh University Press). Her short film about rural Zimbabwe won a distinction at the WHO festival in June.