Radical Film Collectives Then and Now: Space, Time and Experience Across 1970s and Contemporary British Film Collectives

在20世纪70年代，独立的英国电影集体利用合作制作和另类展览实践来制作关于并支持工人阶级、女权主义者和黑人政治斗争的电影。同样，当代电影集团也利用类似的做法，以及数字发行和放映方法，来支持当代的斗争。然而，对这两个时期的集体的研究是有限的，并且主要集中在个体电影文本的文本分析上，而不是集体实践的决定性社会过程。拟议的研究的主要目的是问：20世纪70年代和当代电影集体利用了什么实践和组织形式，他们曾经/现在扮演了什么政治角色？因此，该项目将对该领域作出三方面的贡献。首先，这项研究将建立一个以前不为人知的关于20世纪70年代和当代集体的社会实践和组织的历史描述。其次，本研究将开发一种新颖的方法来研究激进的电影集体，将空间/时间/社会经验作为电影政治的组成部分，集中在文本意义的生产和接受之上。最后，在提出非线性历史关系的过程中，研究将这些历史与设想可能的未来进行对比，在这种未来中，新兴的数字和集体电影形式可能会向过去的集体电影学习，以重新激活另一种英国电影文化。

In the 1970s, independent British film collectives utilised collaborative production and alternativeexhibition practices to make films about, and in support of, working-class, feminist and blackpolitical struggles. Likewise, contemporary film collectives utilise similar practices, alongside digitaldistribution and exhibition methods, to support contemporary struggles. However, research onboth periods of collectives is limited and primarily centres textual analysis of individual film-textsover the decidedly social processes of collectives' practices. The proposed research's primary aim isto ask: what practices and organisational forms did/do 1970s and contemporary film collectivesutilise and what was/is their political roles? Thus, the project will make a threefold contribution tothe field. Firstly, the research will establish a previously untold historical account of the socialpractices and organisation of both 1970s and contemporary collectives. Secondly, the research willdevelop a novel approach to radical film collectives in centring spatial/temporal/social experienceas constitutive of cinematic politics over the production and reception of textual meaning. Finally,in posing a non-linear historical relation, the research will contrast these histories to envisionpossible futures in which emergent forms of digital and collective film might learn from pastcollectives to re-energise an alternative British film culture.