“Left to my own devices, I probably could”: Reflections on inclusive pedagogy and gender equity during Melbourne’s pandemic lockdown
Loading...
Files
Published Version
Date
2022
Authors
Duckett, Victoria
Baulch, Liz
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
Published Version
Abstract
Developing Heide Schlüpmann’s 2013 article, “An Alliance Between History and Theory”, we argue that the home provides the historic and theoretic foundation for cinema’s sense of perceptual play, and that it is also a contemporary and productive site for feminist filmmaking. Using our reflections as educators who experienced distance teaching during the Covid-19 lockdown in Melbourne, we explore how working from and within the home unexpectedly revealed new pathways to feminist pedagogy and progress. We reflect on how the home became a site of creative play, where women were forced to make movies with what they had at hand. The mobile phone or prosumer camera became, in this context, a device to be technologically exploited and used in film production. Linking this to wider developments in smartphone use in filmmaking today, we argue that 2020 was a year in which the home was not necessarily a site of entrapment.
Description
Keywords
Distance teaching , Smartphone filmmaking , Covid , Feminist filmmaking , Online pedagogy
Citation
Duckett, V. and Baulch, L. (2022) '“Left to my own devices, I probably could”: Reflections on inclusive pedagogy and gender equity during Melbourne’s pandemic lockdown', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 24, pp. 168-174. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.24.12