10 · 02 · 09 5th International Congress on Film Theory and Analysis ended Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Lorena Villa Parkman Patricia Zimmermann, of Ithaca College, and Helen de Michiel, of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, presented their paper on The Open Space Project: Towards a Collaborative and Relational Theory of International Documentary. In speaking about this new type of documentary, they said an Open Space Documentary is a film in which the technologies (especially the new ones), the places and people come together to create a dialogue, meetings and microterritories. The open documentary reanimates the processes and results in the mutual creation between individuals and groups, in addition to offering an atmosphere for dialogue around a theme that is not based on opinion or arguments. Patricia White, from Swarthmore College, spoke about the politics of art films, referring to the works by well-known Argentine director Lucrecia Martel and Peruvian director Claudia Llosa. She mentioned The Headless Woman by Martel and Milk of Sorrow by Llosa in her presentation. Rosa-Linda Fregoso, from the University of California Santa Cruz, ended the panel with her analysis on feminist documentaries that deal with themes of interculturality. Present at the closing session were James Ramey, FICM academic adviser, and Lauro Zavala, president of SEPANCINE (Mexican Society of Film Theory and Analysis).
