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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:19 authored by Alisa LebowAlisa Lebow
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 in Egypt, the website is organised by the themes that emerged from the material, allowing the viewer to engage in an unlimited set of “curated dialogues” about issues related to filmmaking in Egypt since 2011. With its constellatory interactive design, Filming Revolution creates as much as documents a community of makers, as it attempts to grapple with approaches to filmmaking in the wake of such 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, on-going, event.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Visual Anthropology

ISSN

0894-9468

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

3

Volume

29

Page range

278-295

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-02-17

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-12-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-02-16

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