PocketVisions: Conversations & Film in association with VERTIGO Magazine

The moving image is, today, the dominant means by which information is analysed, created, and disseminated. Increasingly, we gain ‘insight’, knowledge, and a perspective on values through the images displayed on a cinema or TV screen.

PocketVisions is a different sort of film event. It is a series of questions focused on the implications and responsibilities of those involved in making documentary films.

The films are provocations to the spoken and written word, to our ability to frame and answer questions that lead directly to our capacity to shape and question the world we live in.

PocketVisions is a critical space, a critical debate about documentary film and its role in shaping our thoughts, politics, and opinions.

During our weekly, screening-based, discussions we will look at documentary film as it straddles the worlds of reportage, anthropology, activism, photography and mass entertainment.

PocketVisions is a meeting place and on-line community. It is not panel or expert-based, but audience-based.

Over the course of eight sessions per term, a film will be screened followed by a open-room debate where together we (with guest speakers) will examine the implications of the film, the system of production that gives rise to the film, the position of the subject, and how, we, the audience consume it, and where that consumption might lead.

PocketVisions is an LIDF event presented in association with VERTIGO magazine.

Entry to all PocketVisions events is FREE
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