Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, is a featured interview on the University of California Press site for her research and writing on co-creation in new media documentary. 

She was interviewed with Helen De Michiel, filmmaker and new media artist and designer, with whom she co-authored Open Space New Media Documentary:  A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2018).

The interview is the prelude to a major dossier on co-creation in documentary and new media to be published in March by Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, now at the University of California Press, entitled “Co-creation in Documentary: Toward Multiscalar Granular Interventions Beyond Extraction.”  

The dossier features essays by Reece Auguiste (UK/US), Helen De Michiel (US), Brenda Longfellow (Canada), Dorit Naaman (Canada), and Patricia R. Zimmermann (US), who have worked as a collaborative research team in this emerging area for the last five years.

The interview can be read here:  www.ucpress.edu/blog/49297/co-creation-in-documentary/