Siberia

Taylor, A

Siberia

Taylor, A

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Citation:: Siberia, 2010
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	Taylor, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4739-2860	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Siberia, 2010	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30684
dc.description.abstract	Siberia is a first-hand account of a collision between the Siberian oil-gas frontier, a remote Indigenous community, and a film crew. The story of the film is told through hundreds of still photos taken in the early 1990s, shortly after reforms of glasnost and perestroika. Digital convergence has brought the relationship between the stillness of the photographic and the motion of the filmic to the fore. Research into the relationship between film and photography is a field of study that has seen considerable growth in the past few years, including Mulveys Death 24 x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006); Campanys Photography and Cinema (2008); and a collection of essays edited by Beckman and Ma, Still moving: between cinema and photography (2008). Siberia is new creative research into this field. It focuses on the still/moving in documentary in general, and the slide show and documentary, in particular. Siberia also forges new ground technically and artistically. The film was made using an innovative blend of analogue and digital technologies. Siberia poetic memoir voice is a break in style from the dominant traditions in documentary. It is part documentary, essay film and personal narrative. Its tone is more akin to a fable or tale than conventional observational documentary or reportage. Siberias originality and excellence is evidenced by its acceptance into over fifteen International festivals and film events. These include internationally renowned events at the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Oberhausen Festival, Germany; and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In addition, Siberia has been invited to screen at international events in over 10 countries including the UK, Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Australia. Siberia was a finalist in the 2009 ATOM Awards (Australian Teachers of Media); and was also a finalist in the 2010 Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.	en_US
dc.format	Film Documentary	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Siberia	en_US
dc.title	Siberia	en_US
utslib.location	Russia (NW Siberia) and Australia (Sydney)	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Various international and national events	en_US
utslib.for	1902 Film, Television and Digital Media	en_US
dc.location.activity	Various international and national events
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Russia (NW Siberia) and Australia (Sydney)	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Siberia is documentary about a Siberian frontier town, a remote Indigenous community and a foreign film crew. The film is told using photographs taken on location in the early 1990s based on a failed social issue film project. Background Siberia is in the field of documentary film production. Low and Koenig’s City of Gold (1959) demonstrated that it is possible to create a documentary using found materials when a third person narration is used to structure the material. Varda’s The Gleaners & I (2000) showed that found materials can be structured by combing a first person and third person essayistic voice. De Soussa’s Natureza Morta (2005) demonstrated that narration can be dropped entirely in favour of affective association of sound and image. The research question answered by this film is what is the effect of bringing together a first person narrative with personally-authored ‘found footage’? Research Contribution This project demonstrates that the combination of the first person voice and the restriction of archival material made a more coherent and whole world for the documentary. Research Significance Siberia was funded by Screen Australia. It has been accepted into fifteen international festivals in the UK, Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Australia, as well as events at the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Oberhausen Festival; and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Siberia was a finalist in the 2010 Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.	en_US

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Siberia is a first-hand account of a collision between the Siberian oil-gas frontier, a remote Indigenous community, and a film crew. The story of the film is told through hundreds of still photos taken in the early 1990s, shortly after reforms of glasnost and perestroika. Digital convergence has brought the relationship between the stillness of the photographic and the motion of the filmic to the fore. Research into the relationship between film and photography is a field of study that has seen considerable growth in the past few years, including Mulveys Death 24 x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006); Campanys Photography and Cinema (2008); and a collection of essays edited by Beckman and Ma, Still moving: between cinema and photography (2008). Siberia is new creative research into this field. It focuses on the still/moving in documentary in general, and the slide show and documentary, in particular. Siberia also forges new ground technically and artistically. The film was made using an innovative blend of analogue and digital technologies. Siberia poetic memoir voice is a break in style from the dominant traditions in documentary. It is part documentary, essay film and personal narrative. Its tone is more akin to a fable or tale than conventional observational documentary or reportage. Siberias originality and excellence is evidenced by its acceptance into over fifteen International festivals and film events. These include internationally renowned events at the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Oberhausen Festival, Germany; and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In addition, Siberia has been invited to screen at international events in over 10 countries including the UK, Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Australia. Siberia was a finalist in the 2009 ATOM Awards (Australian Teachers of Media); and was also a finalist in the 2010 Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards.

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