1st Edition

Honeyland A Docalogue

Edited By Jaimie Baron, Kristen Fuhs Copyright 2022
120 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The fourth volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary Honeyland (2019) in relation to documentary ethics, the representation of human and animal relations, environmental studies, genre theory, and documentary distribution. The film, focused on a Turkish-speaking woman in Macedonia who cultivates bees to produce honey through an ancient and... Read more

Introduction: the I and Thou of Honeyland

Jaimie Baron

Chapter 1: Salvaging the bees: Honeyland and the paradox of the observational fable

Andy Rice

Chapter 2: Ethological realism in Honeyland

Selmin Kara

Chapter 3: "In Europe, no one was paying attention": Honeyland on the festival circuit

Ilona Hongisto

Chapter 4: Observational time zones: the ethics of Honeyland

Linnéa Hussein

Chapter 5: Feeling a life: sympoietic aesthetics in Honeyland

Maja Manojlovic

Biography

Jaimie Baron is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos.

Kristen Fuhs is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.