Aketema, J.;
Avorkliyah, C.;
(2023)
Documentary film practice at the Institute of Film and Television, Ghana: truth claims, oral histories and documentary strategies.
Film Education Journal
, 6
(2)
pp. 116-125.
10.14324/FEJ.06.2.04.
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Abstract
This article explores a case study of how documentary film practice is taught at the Institute of Film and Television, Ghana. Drawing on the practices of its authors – themselves documentary film-makers and former students of the institute – we explore some of the contemporary challenges facing how we approach the theory and practice of documentary film-making in contemporary Ghana, including how our students might best approach contested conceptions of the truth, and how such notions of the truth may be articulated within Ghana’s living oral traditions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Documentary film practice at the Institute of Film and Television, Ghana: truth claims, oral histories and documentary strategies |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/FEJ.06.2.04 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.06.2.04 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023, Joseph Aketema and Cecilia Avorkliyah. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | documentary film-making, ethnography, Ghana, oral tradition, participatory film, relativism, slave trade, storytelling |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186512 |
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