Jill Daniels

University of East London | UEL · School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)

In this article, I explore the way experimental documentary film practitioners may utilize the methodology of the bricoleuse in order to create films. I refer to my experiments in documentary film practice – mediations of memory, place and subjectivities – where I deploy hybrid filmic strategies of critical realism and fictional enactment. The bric...

Three noted independent women film practitioners and theorists working in Britain debate the contrast and overlap in their approaches, all produced from within the academy. Eylem Atakav, a theorist, turned to practice for her film on child brides, Growing Up Married (2016); Jill Daniels takes a first-person approach in the production of essay films...

In this case study Jill Daniels references several of her recent experimental documentary films that mediate memory, place and subjectivities: Not Reconciled (2009); The Border Crossing (2011); My Private Life (2013); My Private Life II (2015) and Journey to the South (2017). She proposes the notion that film communicates in a sensory mode that may...

In this article I argue that using past films as found footage has benefited the documentary filmmaker in the production of experimental films. The use of found footage may be easily replicated using digital technology and re-edited into new work and offers opportunities to expand filmic discourse beyond the single text; the continuing expansion of...

The research questions I address in the film, My Private Life II (2015) are: How may hybrid strategies deployed in an experimental documentary film engage with the cinematic representation of memory and subjectivities? How does the use of multiple voice-overs in different tenses add complexity of meaning to documentary film discourse?

The research questions I address in the film, Not Reconciled (2009) are: • How can an experimental documentary film engage with the cinematic representation of memory, trauma and identity? • How can cinematic language represent and address social relations when small communities are disrupted through civil war and trauma? • How can an engagemen...

The research in this doctoral thesis focuses on the mediation of place, memory and identity in experimental western documentary films and contains film theory and film practice components. It is comprised of the production of two experimental documentary films ─ Not Reconciled (41 minutes) (2009) and The Border Crossing (47 minutes) (2011) ─ and a...

The article argues that there are limitations in relying solely on witness testimony and archival material to document the continuing effects of civil war. It references Daniels' 41-minute film, Not Reconciled (2009), which concerns Belchite, a medieval town in the Aragon region of Northern Spain, and the three-week battle that took place there in...

Visible Evidence, the annual international peripatetic documentary conference, now in its seventeenth edition, was held last year for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey. It was organized by Alisa Lebow (Brunel University), in collaboration with Bogaziçi University and DocIstanbul. DocIstanbul is a non-profit training, research, policy and networkin...

Not Reconciled (40 minutes) examines the integral relationship of the flow of time in place straddling the boundary of fiction and documentary through the use of fictionalized characters, the ghosts of republican and nationalist fighters, who provide a framing structure for the recounting of the history of a town, Belchite in Northern Spain and a 3...

A review of the Romanian film 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days (2007)