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Interactive Documentary and Home Movies: Navigating Expanded Documentary Practices, the Portuguese Diaspora, Mnemonic Gestures and Affective Trajectories
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Esta tese teórico-prática examina de que modo os arquivos de família podem ser
apropriados e reconfigurados num documentário interativo e num documentário-instalação. A
intenção é explorar como os arquivos domésticos de migrantes portugueses são
recontextualizados em novas narrativas interativas de não-ficção utilizando metodologias
(auto)etnográficas, o processo de anarchiving e processos iterativos. O enquadramento teórico
baseia-se numa abordagem fenomenológica, nos estudos de cinema e na teoria feminista do
cinema. Apresenta também perspetivas interdisciplinares sobre a intersecção de práticas
expandidas do território do documentário, arquivos familiares, incluindo filmes de família e
fotografias, e migração humana.
Para investigar a manipulação e a reconfiguração das memórias sobre migração e
arquivos de família colaboro com descendentes de famílias portuguesas que partiram e
regressaram a Portugal entre os anos 60 e 80. A cocriação acontece antes do design do
documentário interativo e da instalação, onde escavamos pelo território familiar e pela
transmissão de memórias em segunda mão. Mergulho nestas narrativas pessoais, nas memórias
fragmentadas e filmes domésticos e procuro reconfigurá-los dentro de um documentário
interativo e (re)reconfigurá-los numa documentário-instalação considerando as dimensões
polifónicas e afetivas destas esferas. Pretendo criar espaços afetivos digitais e físicos que
promovam ligações significativas entre os descendentes de testemunhos da diáspora
portuguesa e ainda desenvolver um espaço partilhado e coletivo para futuros diálogos e
conversas sobre a migração humana.
Esta investigação prática centra-se no potencial das práticas expandidas do
documentário para equilibrar gestos analógicos e digitais. Proponho observar o documentário
interativo como um artefacto experimental e ensaístico nos seus métodos, promovendo a
interação e o envolvimento com o espectador. Assim, o espectador e interator cria um espaço
polifónico onde histórias fragmentadas estão em constante diálogo. Por sua vez, a instalação é
um espaço físico que pode ser percorrido, enriquecendo as relações fora do ecrã ao gerar novos significados com a paisagem imagética. Laranja no bolso, Aerogramas e o Resto das Memórias
(2024) é o artefacto resultante desta investigação teórico-prática e que se desdobra num
documentário interativo e num documentário-instalação e, ainda num caderno resultante do
meu profundo interesse pela natureza criativa e maleável dos filmes de família e das práticas
documentais e experimentais intersetadas com histórias de migração humana.
This thesis combines theoretical and practical elements to examine how family archives can be appropriated and reconfigured into an interactive documentary and a documentary installation through practice-based research. The aim is to explore how the family archives of Portuguese migrants are recontextualized into new interactive nonfiction narratives using (auto)ethnographic methodologies, anarchiving methods, and iterative processes. The theoretical framework is grounded in a phenomenological approach, cinema studies, and feminist film theory, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersection of expanded documentary practices, family archives (including home movies and photographs), and human migration. To investigate the repurposing and manipulation of memories about migration and their family archives, I collaborate with descendants of Portuguese families that departed and returned to Portugal between the ‘60s and ‘80s. The co-creation happens before the interface and installation design, where we excavate through the family territory and the second-hand transmission of memories. I delve into personal narratives, fragmented memories, and domestic footage, considering multiple perspectives and polyphonic and affective dimensions of these elements as I seek to reconfigure them within an interactive documentary sphere and employ them in a documentary installation. I intend to create both digital and physical affective spaces that foster meaningful connections among the descendants’ testimonies of the Portuguese diaspora to develop a shared and collective space for future dialogues and conversations about human migration. This practice-research focuses on expanded documentary practices’ potential to balance analog and digital gestures. I propose viewing the interactive documentary as an experimental and essayistic artifact in its methods, allowing for interaction and engagement. Thus, the interactor creates a polyphonic space where fragmented stories are in constant dialogue. On its turn, the documentary installation is a physical space that can be traversed, enriching the offscreen relationships and generating new meanings with the imagetic landscape. Orange in the Pocket, Aerograms and the Rest of Memories (2024) morphs into an interactive documentary, a documentary installation, and a notebook resulting from theory and practice and my profound interest in the creative and malleable nature of home movies and documentary practices, intertwined with the crucial component of human migratory stories.
This thesis combines theoretical and practical elements to examine how family archives can be appropriated and reconfigured into an interactive documentary and a documentary installation through practice-based research. The aim is to explore how the family archives of Portuguese migrants are recontextualized into new interactive nonfiction narratives using (auto)ethnographic methodologies, anarchiving methods, and iterative processes. The theoretical framework is grounded in a phenomenological approach, cinema studies, and feminist film theory, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersection of expanded documentary practices, family archives (including home movies and photographs), and human migration. To investigate the repurposing and manipulation of memories about migration and their family archives, I collaborate with descendants of Portuguese families that departed and returned to Portugal between the ‘60s and ‘80s. The co-creation happens before the interface and installation design, where we excavate through the family territory and the second-hand transmission of memories. I delve into personal narratives, fragmented memories, and domestic footage, considering multiple perspectives and polyphonic and affective dimensions of these elements as I seek to reconfigure them within an interactive documentary sphere and employ them in a documentary installation. I intend to create both digital and physical affective spaces that foster meaningful connections among the descendants’ testimonies of the Portuguese diaspora to develop a shared and collective space for future dialogues and conversations about human migration. This practice-research focuses on expanded documentary practices’ potential to balance analog and digital gestures. I propose viewing the interactive documentary as an experimental and essayistic artifact in its methods, allowing for interaction and engagement. Thus, the interactor creates a polyphonic space where fragmented stories are in constant dialogue. On its turn, the documentary installation is a physical space that can be traversed, enriching the offscreen relationships and generating new meanings with the imagetic landscape. Orange in the Pocket, Aerograms and the Rest of Memories (2024) morphs into an interactive documentary, a documentary installation, and a notebook resulting from theory and practice and my profound interest in the creative and malleable nature of home movies and documentary practices, intertwined with the crucial component of human migratory stories.
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Doutoramento em parceria com a Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da NOVA e com a Universidade do Porto
Palavras-chave
Arquivos de Família Family Archives Filmes de Família Home Movies Diáspora Portuguesa Portuguese Diaspora Documentário Interativo Interactive Documentary Documentário-Instalação Documentary Installation Intermedialidade Afetiva Affective Intermediality Polifonia Polyphony Texturas Hápticas Haptic Textures