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In The Presence of Others Vol. 4 2020 \ An exploration of what documentary is, with an eye toward what it may become. 1 \ Volume 4 \ EDITORS ADVISORY BOARD Nicholas Gamso & Jason Fox Josetxo Cerdán Cíntia Gil DOCUMENTARY WORLD-MAKING Carlos Gutierrez DOSSIER EDITORS Rachael Rakes Toby Lee & Josh Guilford Lynne Sachs Shireen Seno PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Pegi Vail Christopher Cekay Allen Genevieve Yue MANAGING EDITORS GENEROUS SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Jenny Miller Ford Foundation Colin Beckett VOL. IV SPONSOR WEB EDITOR The MDOCS Storytellers' Institute at Skidmore Xiaoya Yuan College DESIGN & ART DIRECTION A PROJECT OF Christopher Cekay Allen UnionDocs Center For Documentary Art Alison S. M. Kobayashi Bartosz Gawdzik World Records Journal Volume 4 FRONT END DEVELOPMENT In the Presence of Others Lukas Steinman Copyright © 2020 UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE Danny Bowman World Records is published by UnionDocs Inc., 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11211. 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Scott MacDonald Ivone Margulies World Records (Print) Pooja Rangan ISSN 2640-0030 Tess Takahashi Published October 2020 2 \ Volume 4 \ Table of Contents \ 7 Introduction: In the Presence of Others \ 147 Our Violent Commons: Witnessing the Nicholas Gamso and Jason Fox Worldly Within the Imperial Commons \ Kareem Estefan 15 Maia and The Boundaries of the Frame \ Ra’anan Alexandrowicz 151 Our Violent Commons: The Territory of Listening \ 27 Action Between Art and Citizenship \ Rachel Stevens Martin Lucas 155 Our Violent Commons: 41 To Have Many Returns: Loss in the Empathy and Codependency \ Presence of Others \ Irmgard Emmelhainz Rayya El Zein ↓ Documentary World-Making Dossier 55 Arendt in Jerusalem: Documentary, Theatricality, and the Echo of Irony \ 163 Introduction: Documentary Jonathan Kahana World-Making \ Josh Guilford and Toby Lee 69 Life, Documentary, and Decolonial Struggle \ 171 Disorganized Organization: Signs of Life Nitasha Dhillon in the Film-makers’ Cooperatives Paper Archive \ 81 Principles for Decolonial Film \ Josh Guilford MTL Collective 189 The Abominable Community: Notes on 83 Picking up the Power \ Independent Filmmakers’ Laboratories \ Gregory Sholette In Conversation with Mariya Nikiforova Tania Bruguera 203 Decolonizing Archives and Law’s Frames 93 Truth, Politics, Disintegration: of Accountability \ Forensic Architecture at the Whitney \ Helene Kazan Nicholas Gamso 215 Another Table: Black Women’s Cinema 103 Conditions \ and the Production of Community \ Warren Sack In Conversation with New Negress Film Society with Nuotama Bonnie Honig and Jenny Reardon Bodomo, Tchaiko Omawale, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Kamilah Badiane, 117 Rewriting the Grammars of Innocence: Gessica Généus, Ja’Tovia Gary, Adepero Abounaddara and the Right to the Image \ Oduye, Cauleen Smith, and Nikyatu Miriam Ticktin 223 Before, Within, Around Beyond: World- 127 Can Rights Be Found on a Map? \ Making in the Digital Archive \ Jason Fox Diana Allan, George Awde, Kaoukab Chebaro, Jared McCormick, Christian 137 Visualizing The Rights Of The Dead: Rossipal, and Yasmine Eid Sabbagh Photography After Arendt \ Cecilia Sjöholm Manyoftheimagesandfilmclips discussed in this volume can be seen at worldrecordsjournal.org. 3 \ Volume 4 \ Contributors \ Ra'anan Alexandrowicz is a director, screen- performance and media in the Middle East writer and editor. His film The Law in These and its diasporas. Her multi-sited research Parts (2011) received the Grand Jury Award focuses on the embodied aesthetics of live at the Sundance Film Festival, a Peabody performances and activist practices, exploring award, and numerous other prizes. His earli- the cultural politics of contemporary media. er documentaries, The Inner Tour (2001) and Her work rethinks representations of Arab and Martin (1999), were shown in the Berlin Film Muslim youth and proposes different models Festival's Forum section and MoMA's New of subjectivity and agency attuned lived expe- Directors/New Films series. His single fiction rience in the contemporary Middle East. Her feature, James’ Journey to Jerusalem (2003), first book manuscript is a meditation on yearn- premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and ing as a political condition, explored through the Toronto International Film Festival. Ra’anan developments in experimental Arabic rap and served several times as an editing advisor hip hop. for the Sundance Documentary Fund and his film The Viewing Booth is supported by the Irmgard Emmelhainz is an independent trans- Sundance Art of Nonfiction initiative. lator, writer, researcher, and lecturer based in Mexico City. Her writings have been translated Tania Bruguera is a Cuban installation and into several languages and presented at an performance artist whose work creates the array of international venues, including the GSD conditions for collective political action. at Harvard, the Walter Benjamin in Palestine Bruguera has shown her work at several inter- Conference, the Curatorial Summit at the School national art exhibitions, including the Venice of Visual Arts in New York; and the Munch Biennale, Documenta, the Istanbul Biennial, Museum in Oslo. She is the author of The Sky and the Shanghai Biennale. Her work is also in isIncomplete:TravelChroniclesinPalestine the permanent collections of many institutions, (Taurus, 2019), Jean-Luc Godard's Political including MoMA, the Bronx Museum of the Filmmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and La Arts, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes tiraníadelsentidocomún:LaReconversiónneo- de La Habana. Bruguera is a past Guggenheim liberal de México (Paradiso, 2016). fellow and recipient of numerous other awards. Kareem Estefan is a writer, editor, and PhD Nitasha Dhillon is a writer, artist, educator, candidate in Modern Culture and Media at and organizer. She holds a Ph.D. from the Brown University. He currently teaches media Department of Media Study at the University of studies at the American University of Beirut. Buffalo in New York. Along with Amin Husain, His art criticism has appeared in Art in America, Dhillon is the founder of MTL Collective, a BOMB, frieze, Ibraaz, Third Text, and the New collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, Inquiry. He is co-editor of AssumingBoycott: and action in its practice. MTL Collective, in Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production turn, has founded Global Ultra Luxury Faction, a (OR Books, 2017). direct action wing of Gulf Labor Artist Coalition as well as MTL+, the collective facilitating Jason Fox is the Founding Editor of World Decolonize This Place. Dhillon’s writings have Records. been published in October, Artforum, Journal of Visual Culture, Hyperallergic, Dissent Magazine, Nicholas Gamso is the author of Art After CreativeTimeReports, and the Brooklyn Rail. Liberalism, forthcoming from Columbia Books on Architecture & the City, which explores po- Rayya El Zein is a Visiting Assistant Professor litical crisis through readings in contemporary Anthropology at Wesleyan University. She art and media. He holds a Ph.D. from the City is a cultural ethnographer and scholar of University of New York and has taught at the Contributors \ 4 Pratt Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, and Art and Technology in New York, the New Stanford University, where he was a 2018-2019 York Film Festival, and Ars Electronica in Linz. Creative Cities Fellow. Nick’s writings appear He is a Director of the Integrated Media Arts in journals such as Afterimage, ASAP, Social MFA Program of the Film and Media Studies Text, Texte zur Kunst, and Third Text. Department at Hunter College, City University of New York. Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology Science at Brown University. Her most re- and the Founding Director of the Science and cent book is PublicThings:Democracyin Justice Research Center at the University of Disrepair (Fordham, 2017). Her books Antigone, California, Santa Cruz. Her research shows Interrupted (Cambridge, 2013) and Emergency how questions of identity, justice, and democ- Politics (Princeton, 2009) draw on the works racy are often silently embedded in scientific of Hannah Arendt in asking how to think and ideas and practices. Her most recent book is act in emergency settings. She is an affiliate of ThePostgenomicCondition:Ethics,Justice, the Digital Democracy Group at Simon Fraser Knowledge After the Genome (Chicago, 2017). University and Senior Research Affiliate at the She is the recipient of fellowships and awards American Bar Foundation, Chicago. from, among others, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, the Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon are MTL, a col- Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study, the lective that joins research and activism with Humboldt Foundation, and the United States artistic practice. MTL’s work has been curated Congressional Committee on Science, Space in major international art exhibitions and fes- and Technology. tivals around the world including the Athens Biennale and the Venice Biennale.