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Heart of gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form

Knudsen, E

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E Knudsen



Abstract

This report seeks to summarise the process and outcomes of a practice based research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and undertaken during the academic year 2005/2006. The primary outcome of the project is the film Heart of Gold (40 minutes) and the purpose here is to augment and expand this primary outcome.

Heart of Gold is a documentary project which took me, the filmmaker, back to my country of birth, Ghana, to explore how traditional story-telling may help shape a new approach to documentary forms. The documentary revolves around the changing relationship local people have to the precious and mystical metal, gold. By exploring this changing relationship, the aim was to discover what kind of stories are told about gold, how these stories are told, and how these stories and their mode of delivery may help the filmmaker create documentary narrative approaches which can encompass both realism and mysticism.

The aims and objectives of the project, its process and outcomes, are described here and key answers identified with a view to encourage further exploration and debate.

Citation

Knudsen, E. (2007). Heart of gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form. Journal of Media Practice, 8(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.8.1.49_1

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date May 1, 2007
Deposit Date Oct 4, 2010
Publicly Available Date Apr 5, 2016
Journal Journal of Media Practice
Print ISSN 1468-2753
Publisher Intellect
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 1
Pages 49-61
DOI https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.8.1.49_1
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.8.1.49_1
Related Public URLs http://www.onedayfilms.com

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