Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film at
The University of Westminster
DocWest is the website of the Documentary Film Centre at the
University of Westminster. Established in 2009, it brings together an
interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and students to foster
creative conversations around documentary practice. In their premises in
Central London they host an exciting range of screenings, master-classes and
conferences involving some of the most prominent practitioners in today’s
documentary world.
Their activities involve teaching, film production, and
academic research. They aim to redefine documentary discourse, its history and
its connection to art and politics through investigating relationships between
ideology, history, culture, and the apparatus of artistic production. They pay
particular attention to the study areas of Visual Anthropology and Human
Rights, Arts Documentary and the Documentary Archive, whilst extending the
range of production and research into other fields of documentary study, such
as the interactive documentary and the web-based documentary.
They focus on international collaboration and they welcome
proposals from, and partnerships with, other documentary centres throughout the
world. They actively search to promote documentary work that goes beyond
Western European and North American traditions. They collaborate closely with
Westminster University’s India Media
Centre, China Media
Centre and Africa Media
Centre, and they are currently developing partnerships in Central
and Eastern Europe.
They have developed a thriving Ph.D. culture, with both
theoretical and practice-based doctoral degrees focusing on a variety of
contexts and referencing many different documentary traditions. Current and
completed Ph.D.s range from a shared ethnography of a queer club in London to
an examination of the new forms of documentary film-making associated with
representations of Modern China, and from an investigation into the new visual
language associated with ‘mobile-mentaries’, to an ethnography of a documentary
film studio in communist Romania.
They aim to provide a platform for initiating, funding and
distributing creative documentary projects conceived at the intersection
between academia and the industry.
If you feel inspired by the above, they want to hear from
you.
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