Workshop: Map My Ethics!
Developing an interactive documentary to reveal and re-make the key ethical decisions that form the pivot of the documentary short film Justine.
Justine (Lotus Films, 2013 UK, 26 mins) offers a glimpse into the life of a young woman unable to give filming consent in the way we normally understand it due to her neurological disorders. A central ethical consideration that surfaced from the conception to the reception of this film is: how to make a film rooted in notions of consent or even informed consent, but with a subject who is
not able to give consent. Should we try? If so, how?
This workshop is designed to examine and unpack what Pat Zimmerman calls “participatory and collaborative modalities, community-based practice, pedagogical strategies and the documentary project” as developed in a work in progress called Justine Interactive.
The workshop seeks to configure a generative and participatory space where workshop participants co-create responses to the ethics of consent as explored in the development of Justine Interactive. The workshop seeks to identify a “Thick description”; who are your partners? What are your levels of engagement? What does ‘collaboration’ mean in terms of shared power and control?
Preregistration required – sign-up link to come.