Essay Film and Narrative Techniques

List of Figures

Preface

Laura Rascaroli

Introduction: Essay Filmmaking as Creative Research: ‘Behind the Scenes’ of On-screen Thinking, Narrative Techniques and Processes of Knowing

Kiki Tianqi Yu and Romana Turina

Part One: Journeys and Nature of Thinking

1. Chaos or Process? Some Remarks on the Work Process of an Essay Film

Jouko Aaltonen

2. The Collector/Sampler/Editor: A Feminist Perspective on the Screenwriting Process 

Judith Rifeser

3. The Future of Thinking: Notes on Animation and the Essay Film 

Richard Wright

Part Two: Dialogic Practices

4. Father-land: Narratives of Memory in a Place of Conflict 

Kayla Parker

5. Heliographies of Change: Marianna Christofides’ Days In Between (2015)

Brenda Hollweg with Marianna Christofides

6. Personal monument: remembering an awkward love Personal monument: remembering an awkward love

Louis Hothothot

Part Three: Work-in-Progress: From Still to Moving Images

7. Three Sisters in a Sketchbook: Photography as Prosthesis in the Essay Film Form 

Romana Turina

8. ‘Into the Frameless Distance’ and ‘The City of (No) Memory’: Itinerant Research for Photo/Filmic Practices 

Patti Gaal-Holmes

Part Four: Nature of the essay film and Cinema as Knowledge Production

9. Black Essay-filmmaking and Essay-filmmaking as ‘Black’

William Brown

10. Filmmakers as ‘magicians’ and cinema can be dangerous Filmmakers as ‘Magicians’ and Cinema Can Be Dangerous

Kiki Tianqi Yu in Conversation with Lei Lei 

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography