Documentary Habitats

Dale Hudson is Associate Professor of Film and New Media at New York University Abu Dhabi, a digital curator for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), and coordinator of the Films from the Gulf at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Festival.Patricia R. Zimmermann was the Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College, director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), co-curator (with Louis Massiah) of We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media, and editor-at-large of The Edge.

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionI: Local and Indigenous Knowledge1. Entanglements2. PolyphoniesII: Taking the Trouble3. Contaminations4. IterationsIII: Augmented Documentary Practices5. Navigations6. ExtractionsIV: Habitats Are Relationships7. Adaptations8. InfectionsCodaBibliographyIndex

"What I find particularly compelling about this book is its balance between the marginalized human (e.g., Indigenous, Daoist, Asian and African diasporic, etc.) and nonhuman (e.g., plant, animal, machine) sources of knowledge and ethical standards. It concludes with a clarion call to embrace community and employ new technologies for the greater good. Its passion for transmedia in the service of progressive social change encourages readers to take the examples found in the book and employ them in their own critical practice as filmmakers, media artists, curators, educators, or community organizers."—Gina Marchetti, author of Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era "Documentary Habitats completes decades of curation and research in collaborative Indigenous, activist, and community film and interactive media, unlearning fixed ideas and values, exposing the specificity of places and connections, and pursuing documentary's tangled polyphony towards a more-than-human future. Onward!"—Seán Cubitt, author of Good: Aesthetic Politics