Outputs (16)

Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon (2022)
Journal Article
Brian Smith, P., & Watson, R. (2023). Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon. Media, Culture and Society, 45(1), 36-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221088954

This article focuses on new media technologies and practices that are reshaping how human rights media activism is practiced, disseminated and received. Through an examination of two works by the research agency Forensic Architecture, we examine how... Read More about Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon.

Critical Media Forensics: Theme Week Introduction (2022)
Digital Artefact
Smith, P. B. (2022). Critical Media Forensics: Theme Week Introduction

Documenting Extractive and Indigenous Futurities: Thirza Cuthand’s and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2020). Documenting Extractive and Indigenous Futurities: Thirza Cuthand’s and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work. #Journal not on list, 47(4), 50-68. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.47.4.50

The aim of this article is to examine how different modes of moving image practice can expose and critique the impacts of extractive capitalism and settler colonialism on Indigenous communities in northern Canada. The article focuses on the work of t... Read More about Documenting Extractive and Indigenous Futurities: Thirza Cuthand’s and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work.

Visualising Spatial Injustice and Exploitation, Q&A with Alberto Toscano and Miranda Pennell (2018)
Journal Article

The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’ (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2016). The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’. #Journal not on list, 5(2), 49-71. https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/3356

This article maps out the presence of a spatio-political tendency within a diverse corpus of experimental nonfiction films. Within such works urban/rural landscapes and spaces – typically presented through protracted, deep focus shots – become the ce... Read More about The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’.

Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing’s Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2015)
Book Chapter