This paper first looks at current methods of evaluating automated content-based media analysis systems. Several key deficiencies are identified, particularly with regard to test set creation and metric design. A new framework is proposed that better reflects real-world conditions and end-user requirements. This is based on the author’s experience as a professional filmmaker and researcher in th...

In this paper I introduce a lens of mobility for the study of documentary film practices and gender in zones of conflict. By drawing on my qualitative research regarding the practice of the independent filmmaker Iffat Fatima, I will argue that a lens of mobility helps to grasp highly mobile media practices both conceptually and methodologically. Through a lens of mobility, my focus lies on the ...

In a recent interview for the Daily Telegraph newspaper (Collin 2019), filmmaker David Fincher commented on Joker’s ‘surprising’ success: I don’t think anyone would have looked at that material and...

Ethnographic film no longer occupies a singular niche. Other voices call to us in forms and modes that blur the boundaries and genres that represent distinctions between fiction and documentary, politics and culture, here and there. For those situated in the larger, nonspecialist audience outside of anthropology per se, these other voices often seem more incisive, informative, and engaging...Th...