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The limits of observation: ethnofiction and documentary horizons 
Convenors:
Eric Coombs Esmail (University of Colorado Boulder)
Christian Hammons (University of Colorado Boulder)
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Format:
Roundtable
Sessions:
Friday 10 March, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Using the chronotope of ethnofiction, this roundtable addresses historical and contemporary documentaries that test the limits of observational knowledge-making and expand the horizons of documentary media.

Long Abstract:

Using the chronotope of ethnofiction, this roundtable addresses historical and contemporary documentaries that test the limits of observational knowledge-making and expand the horizons of documentary media. The chronotope of ethnofiction is the configuration of time-space that occurs when people perform or retell events that they experienced or that they imagine to be true. Often a collaborative process between subject and maker, the chronotope produces the strange feeling that history is repeating itself, modulating the present, and even suggesting potential futures. Rather than consider documentary as an impulse to observe and preserve, this conversation uses ethnofiction as a starting point for opening up possibilities for documentary as a constitutive and generative practice.

Participants may re-frame traditional approaches or share experimental techniques - whether in documentary research, writing, field work, production, or distribution - that directly or indirectly employ the chronotope of ethnofiction.

Accepted contributions:

Session 1 Friday 10 March, 2023, -
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