The articulation of voices in two film projects about violence – The Act of Killing and Gzim Rewind

This paper explores two experimental documentary films that present memories of acts of mass violence: The Act of Killing (Denmark, 2012, director Joshua Oppenheimer) about the Indonesian anti-Communist purge in the 1960s and Gzim Rewind (Sweden, 2011, director Knutte Wester) about the fate of a boy who fled from Kosovo in the 1990s. Using dialogic theory (Bakhtin, 1981; Phillips, 2011), we analyse the voices that are articulated about past violent events in the films. The focus is on how different voices interrelate in the filmic presentation of mass violence, including victims and killers. Primarily, the analysis focuses on The Act of Killing and its reception by an Indonesian audience. The discussion concerns how these kinds of film projects open up very different voices and how this diversity potentially contributes to new understandings of the past, thereby fuelling social and political change

Methodologies for tracking learning paths: designing the online research study Making a Filmmaker

The article concerns the design of a collaborative research project (2008-09) entitled Making a Filmmaker, which examines how young Scandinavian filmmakers create their own learning paths in formal and/or informal contexts. Our interest is in how learning experiences and contexts motivate the young filmmakers: what furthers their interest and/or hinders it, and what learning patterns emerge. The aim of this article is to present and discuss issues regarding the methodology and methods of the study, such as developing a relationship with interviewees when conducting interviews online (using MSN). We suggest two considerations about using online interviews: how the interviewees value the given subject of conversation and their familiarity with being online. The benefit of getting online communication with the young filmmakers is the ease it offers, because it is both practical and appropriates a meeting platform that is familiar to our participants.Artiklen handler om forskningsdesign af et kollaborativt projekt (2008-09), At skabe en filmskaber, som handler om hvordan unge, skandinaviske filmskabere skaber deres egne læringsveje i formelle, semi-formelle og/eller uformelle kontekster. Vores overordnede interesse i projektet er at se på hvordan de unges oplevelser og kontekster påvirker deres læringsprocesser. Målet med denne artikel er at præsentere og diskutere problemstillinger angående vores anvendte metodik og metoder, herunder at udvikle et forhold med informanter via skriftlige online-interviews (med MSN). Vi drøfter både den praktiske side ved det at interviewe over lange afstande og betydningen af at bruge en medieplatform som de unge filmskabere kender

Methodologies for tracking learning paths: designing the online research study Making a Filmmaker

The article concerns the design of a collaborative research project (2008-09) entitled Making a Filmmaker, which examines how young Scandinavian filmmakers create their own learning paths in formal and/or informal contexts. Our interest is in how learning experiences and contexts motivate the young filmmakers: what furthers their interest and/or hinders it, and what learning patterns emerge. The aim of this article is to present and discuss issues regarding the methodology and methods of the study, such as developing a relationship with interviewees when conducting interviews online (using MSN). We suggest two considerations about using online interviews: how the interviewees value the given subject of conversation and their familiarity with being online. The benefit of getting online communication with the young filmmakers is the ease it offers, because it is both practical and appropriates a meeting platform that is familiar to our participants.Artiklen handler om forskningsdesign af et kollaborativt projekt (2008-09), At skabe en filmskaber, som handler om hvordan unge, skandinaviske filmskabere skaber deres egne læringsveje i formelle, semi-formelle og/eller uformelle kontekster. Vores overordnede interesse i projektet er at se på hvordan de unges oplevelser og kontekster påvirker deres læringsprocesser. Målet med denne artikel er at præsentere og diskutere problemstillinger angående vores anvendte metodik og metoder, herunder at udvikle et forhold med informanter via skriftlige online-interviews (med MSN). Vi drøfter både den praktiske side ved det at interviewe over lange afstande og betydningen af at bruge en medieplatform som de unge filmskabere kender