Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt, Mamdooh Afdile, Alexander Skantze
2024 (English)In: Practice Sharing II / [ed] Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin, Research Catalogue , 2024Chapter in book (Refereed) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
Exploring them-driven storytelling is a research enquiry involving Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt, Mamdooh Afdile and Alexander Skantze. The cinematic language of (conventional) film is dominated by classical Aristotelian structure with a clear beginning, middle, and end, main characters, and a progressing plot. Although this kind of dramatic structure has proven beneficial in telling engaging stories, many stories fall outside these structures (real-life stories, spiritual stories, non-rational stories, etc.). Telling such stories in the classical way (on the textual or visual level) might consequently require a significant artistic compromise to fit within this structure. The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential of the theme-based storytelling approach as a means of inspiration for telling a compelling story that is too complex to be told classically (e.g., a spiritual story driven by memory or lacking a clear protagonist). In a collaborative work, this artistic research group has examined a theme-based approach in three practices: writing a story, visualizing it, and adapting it to a screenplay. Namely, the process includes the following stages i) Writing a story inspired by a true/fake memory as them (by Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt), ii) visualizing the story while remaining true to the theme (by Mamdooh Afdile), and iii) exploring thematic vs. classic screenplay (by Alexander Skantze). The findings were publicly presented at an artistic research seminar at Stockholm University of the Arts in January 2023.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Research Catalogue , 2024.
Keywords [en]
storytelling
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Research subject
Artistic Practices
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-1937OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uniarts-1937DiVA, id: diva2:1895291
Note
Practice Sharing II is the second online presentation of diverse approaches to language-based practice within the field of artistic research, published by the Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. The Practice Sharing includes contributions from: -- Annette Arlander -- Dave Ball -- Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya -- Sue Brind & Jim Harold -- Katrina Brown -- Arturas Bukauskas -- Julia Calver -- Delphine Chapuis Schmitz -- Emma Cocker -- Joanna Cook -- Adélia Santos Costa -- Mike Croft -- Kimberly Campanello -- Kostas Daflos -- Cordula Daus -- Janhavi Dhamankar & Minou Tsambika Polleros -- Martin.P. Eccles -- C.C. Elian -- Federico Eisner Sagues -- João Emediato -- Kate Fahey -- Rob Flint -- Lynda Gaudreau -- Sandra Golubjevaite -- Sara Gomez -- Vanessa Graf -- Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt, Mamdooh Afdile & Alexander Skantze -- Kirsi Heimonen & Leena Rouhiainen -- rosie heinrich with An_assembling_“I” -- Steffi Hofer -- Marianne Holm Hansen -- Rolf Hughes -- James Jack -- Benjamin Jenner -- Christina Marie Jespersen -- Molly Joyce -- Krystyna Kulisiewicz -- Andrea Liu -- Ling Liu -- Barb Macek -- Yorgos Maraziotis -- Klaus Maunuksela -- Annie Morrad -- Amelie Mourgue d'Algue -- Antrianna Moutoula -- Peta Murray -- Elena Peytchinska & Thomas Ballhausen -- Julieanna Preston -- Maya Rasker -- Sarah Rinderer -- Hanns Holger Rutz -- Maryam Ramezankhani --- Marianna Stefanitsi -- Anie Toole -- Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec -- Sarah Scaife -- Litó Walkey -- Kai Ziegner --
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