- Published
- 31 December 2021
- Journal article
Utopian Montage: exploring transnational folk cinemas online during the Covid-19 pandemic
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- Open Screens
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Abstract
This essay explores some of the simultaneous limitations and affordances the Covid-19 pandemic has created for emergent perspectives upon a transnational folk cinema. Merging aspects of more traditional scholarly enquiry with the research-by-practice embodied within Scotland's Folk Film Gathering film festival, we position two case studies - of Nadir Bouhmouch's Amussu (2020) and the Amber Collective's Like Father (2001) respectively - within some of the broader question underlying attempts to bring the conviviality of community-focussed filmmaking and cinema-going online during the pandemic.
Cite as
Chambers, J. & Higbee, W. 2021, 'Utopian Montage: exploring transnational folk cinemas online during the Covid-19 pandemic', Open Screens, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.8009