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This studio revolves around the representation and poetics of the neighbourhoods that we live in – cities, suburbs, localities that help us define who we are and who we want to be. It explores ways to tell strong visual stories.
Through regular exercises we will craft a moving image story about the sensibilities that we attach to place imagined as a series of documentary moments collected over the span of the semester.
In this studio we will explore the neighbourhoods that are meaningful to us, traversing and mapping them through a series of audio fragments, photographic images and video documentaries. Whether it is interviewing local legends, creating poetic works on the ‘feeling of Carlton on a Saturday night’, the secret history of the local nightclub, the faded glory of ghost signs, these will all be markers of significance, signposts to be captured and collected to tell a story about the neighbourhood.
It will look at the way we represent, construct, remember and imagine as a mediation of place, identity and historical event. And how these often function in the public sphere to invite or reject a sense of belonging.
Memory, Identity and Neighbourhoods is the first studio I have taken part in at RMIT, and really, the first time I’ve had the opportunity to continually create media that I am passionate about. Over the course I learnt valuable lessons and was given…
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