After 6 years and 3 months (fast, slow, slow, slow, fast) on January 6, 2023 I submitted my film and written thesis.
The final title is ‘Attending, listening, taking time: the quietly radical ethical practice of the filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson.’ It considers the extractive and assimilatory nature of documentary filmmaking and looks to Jenny Gilbertson’s practice of attention as a way to foreground those you film and film with, creating a way of working and making that strives to recognise, respect and reciprocate.
I had my viva on February 8th. Thank you to Susan Berridge (chair), Barbara Evans (external), Maria Velez Serna and Elizabeth Ezra for one of the best hours of my life and for doing this so promptly in the light of my impending neurosurgery. And thank you to my supervisor Sarah Neely for the years of support, advice and for willing me on. Thank you to everyone who willed me on. I will write about my thanking at a later date.
And, yes, I wore an Oodie to my viva. I was so excited and absorbed, I let the fire go out.
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