Obstinate Memory: A Radical Participatory Film-Based Research Approach
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Obstinate memory is an insistent resource for communities. Migrant Media advocates the methodology of a “documentary of force” as a research tool for filmmakers and academics. As a U.K.-based collective of filmmaker-activists involved in community struggles, Migrant Media’s resistance-based work uses cameras and screens to challenge racism and police violence. Drawing on film documentary history from figures as diverse as Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Black Audio Film Collective, and Third Cinema, the Migrant Media story is revealed through attempts to ban the 2001 film Injustice and a more recent series filmed with nurses during the coronavirus pandemic. We suggest some directions for further research at the end.
Authors: Ken Fero, John Hutnyk
Institutions: Coventry University, Ton Duc Thang University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4396933256