Volume 5

Beyond Story

Alexandra Juhasz & Alisa Lebow

When and why has story become today’s pre-eminent mode for documentary and what gets lost when storied structures prevail?

Introduction: Beyond Story
Alexandra Juhasz & Alisa Lebow
The time it takes to do things with trembling hands
Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Telling Something Else: Documentary Beyond (Hi)story
Alex Johnston
Assembly Over Algorithm: Resisting Overnarrativization
Rick Prelinger
A Story on Story: Camel Races, Robot Jockeys, and Filmmaking
Isabelle Carbonell
Outreach as Production: Family Pictures USA
Thomas Allen Harris
Irresistible Rise of Story: The Historical Transformation of Radical Commitments
Paige Sarlin
Possibility Made Real
Lana Lin
Platform Politics: Netflix, the Media Industries, and the Value of Reality
Joshua Glick
Sundance, CNEX, and the Cultural Politics of Story
Luke Robinson
How Does It End? Story and the Property Form
Brett Story
All That Glitters: Reflections on the Not-So-Golden Age of Documentary Storytelling
Cecilia Aldarondo & Samara Chadwick
Re: Beyond Story
Sam Green
Expectation Bordering on Demand: Jem Cohen and Rick Prelinger
Jem Cohen & Rick Prelinger
Character Limit
Sable Elyse Smith, Brett Story, and Travis Wilkerson with Alexandra Juhasz
Four Propositions on True Crime and Abolition
Pooja Rangan & Brett Story

Volume 5 Editors
Alexandra Juhasz & Alisa Lebow

Publishing Director
Christopher Cekay Allen

Editor
Jason Fox

Editor Managing Editors
Jenny Miller
Colin Beckett

Web Editor
Xiaoya Yuan

Design and Art Direction
Christopher Cekay Allen
Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Bartosz Gawdzik

Front End Development
Lukas Steinman

Interactive Architecture
Danny Bowman

Graphic Design
Bartosz Gawdzik

Editorial Board
Tarik Elseewi
Benj Gerdes
Faye Ginsburg
Jennifer Hayashida
Alexandra Juhasz
Jonathan Kahana
Alisa Lebow
Martin Lucas
Scott MacDonald
Ivone Margulies
Pooja Rangan
Tess Takahashi

Advisory Board
Josetxo Cerdán
Cíntia Gil
Carlos Gutiérrez
Laliv Melamed
Rachael Rakes
Lynne Sachs
Shireen Seno
Pegi Vail
Genevieve Yue

Logo Design
Bartosz Gawdzik
Michał Dudek

Generous Support Provided by
Ford Foundation

Volume 5 Sponsors
Sheffield Doc Fest

A Project of
UnionDocs Center For Documentary Art