August 7th 2006, Monday
Location: Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo

9am - 10:55am

1. Evidence and Spectacle

Chair: Esther Hamburger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Amy Villarejo (Cornell University, USA)
“Bus 174” and the Future of Film

Cecilia Sayad (New York University, USA)
Performance as a shortcut: paths of truth in “Santo Forte” and “Bus 174”

Esther Hamburger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Reflection on the idea of “Spectacle”

João Luiz Vieira (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
The documentary in fiction and vice versa: “Quanto vale ou é por quilo?”

11am - 12:55pm

2. Documentary and Artistic Expression

Chair: Michael Renov (University of Southern California, USA)

Michael Renov (University of Southern California, USA)
Expressivity: The Art of Documentary Practice

Eugenia Giannouri & Teresa Castro (Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
Mapping Strategies and Crossed Visions: “Scaling” the Spiral Jetty

Ismail Xavier (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
About “Di”, by Glauber Rocha

2:30pm - 4:25pm

3. Documentary Film and the Unphotographable

Chair: Patrik Sjoberg (Karlstad University, Sweden)

Kjetil Jakobsen (University of Bergen, Norway)
Documenting globalization. A reflection on History, Storytelling and Film

Lynne Sachs (New York University, USA)
“I am not a war photographer”

Patrik Sjoberg (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Viewing the Absent – Remarks On Forensic Animation Film

2:30pm - 4:25pm

4. The Multiples voices on the Documentary Form

Chair: Henri Arraes Gervaiseau (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Andrea Hammer (Cornell University, USA)
Audible Evidence: On Listening to Places

Henri Arraes Gervaiseau (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Audiovisual  representations of “rap” and “hip hop”

Trish FitzSimons (Griffith University, Australia)
Braided Channels – towards a choric concept of documentary voice, from an interdisciplinary, cross cultural and cross media perspective

4:30pm - 6:25pm

5. The Failure of Visible Evidence: Adopting a Strategic Tactic Beyond Success

Chair: Fiona Barnett (Duke University, USA)

Shilyh Warren (Duke University, USA)
Filmic Intervention: Breakdown, Failure, and Social change in “Born into Brothels”

Abigail Salerno (Duke University, USA)
When Our Senses Fail: Helen Keller, Visual Media and Political Participation

Fiona Barnett (Duke University, USA)
Dirt and DNA as Failed Evidence: Willy Pickton and the Missing Women

4:30pm - 6:25pm

6. Digital Implications

Chairs: Christin Dammen & Marit Corneil (Norwegian Univiversity Science & Technology, Norway)

Christin Dammen & Marit Corneil (Norwegian University Science & Technology, Norway)
The Subjunctive and the Subjective: On the implications of digital technology for documentary theory and practice

Ohad Landesman (New York University, USA)
Digital Vérité: Intimacy and Immediacy in the DV Documentary

Helio Augusto Godoy de Souza (Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil)
Documentary Realism, Sampling Theory and Peirce’s Semiotics: the electronic audiovisual signs (analogical or digital) as reality indexes

7:30pm
Documentary Film Exihibition:

It’s All True
Dir: Richard Wilson, Myron Meisel, Bill Krohn, based on salvaged footage from the 1942 Orson Welles “It’s All True””
USA / France, 1993, 89’, DVD

A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.

The Unseen It’s All True
Presentation: Catherine Benamou (University of Michigan, USA)
Aproximate Time: 45’

Newly preserved footage by Orson Welles from his unfinished work “It’s All True”, from the UCLA Film and Television Archive.