Seeing Revolution Non-Linearly: www.filmingrevolution.org. Issue 3 (26th May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lebow, Alisa
• Is Part Of: Visual anthropology. Volume 29:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 278
• Page End: 295
• Publication Date: 2016-05-26
• Subjects: Visual anthropology -- Periodicals; 306
• DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2016.1154751
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0894-9468

Abstract

Abstract : Filming Revolution, launched in 2015, is an online interactive data base documentary tracing the strands and strains of independent (mostly) documentary filmmaking in Egypt since the revolution. Consisting of edited interviews with 30 filmmakers, archivists, activists and artists based there, the website is organized by the themes that emerged from the material, allowing the viewer to engage in an unlimited set of "curated dialogues" about issues relating to filmmaking in Egypt since 2011. With its constellatory interactive design, Filming Revolution creates as much as documents a community of makers, attempting to grapple with approaches to filmmaking in the wake of momentous historical events. The non-hierarchical polysemous structure of the project is meant to echo the rhizomatic, open-ended aspect of the revolution and its aftermath, in yet another affirmation and instantiation of contemporary civil revolution as a non-linear, ever-unfolding, ongoing event.