IMPRINT Documentary Collective is an international feminist film collective working on developing a process of “embodied documentary filmmaking” through experimental, collaborative, grassroots, and feminist filmmaking practices. Through experiential workshops exploring the body’s own stories as well as the role of the body politic in film, IMPRINT has brought together filmmakers, artists and academics to create experimental documentary films on radically empathic ways of being in the world. Erica will share insights into the practice of embodiment in the filmmaking process, as well as share examples of her filmic work that draws on an embodied process in both directing and production. You can find more information on IMPRINT online at imprintdocs.cargo.site or on instagram @imprint.documentaries
Erica Monde is a filmmaker and medical anthropologist working in film production, education, and research on embodiment, mental health, and filmmaking. She is co-founder of IMPRINT Documentary Collective, a feminist film collective experimenting with the body in filmmaking, as well as founder of Embodied Ecologies, an academic and artist network exploring the intersections of embodiment and ecology in creative arts practice. Her Screen Scotland and Scottish Documentary Institute commissioned documentary on endometriosis and the Japanese knotweed, There’s Not Much We Can Do, premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022, and has recently screened at international festivals such as DOC:NYC and Raindance. She is an alumni of the Locarno Industry Academy, currently tutors on the Film Medicine postgraduate course at the University of Edinburgh, and has been recently commissioned by BFI Network and Short Circuit to direct her first fiction film, This desert will rust your bones. You can follow her work @erica.monde or at ericamonde.cargo.site.
HOW TO CITE
Please cite as: Erica Monde. 2024. “Imprint Collective: on embodied documentary filmmaking,“ webinar from Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA. 7 March.
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