Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # World Records An exploration of what documentary is, and what it might become. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [The Documentary Audit: A Roundtable](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/introduction-the-documentary-audit-roundtable/) - [The Spatial Audit](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-spatial-audit/) - [My Accented Ear](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/my-accented-ear/) - [Toward Reparative Listening](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/toward-reparative-listening/) - [I Detest the Term 'Nonverbal'](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/i-detest-the-term-nonverbal/) - [Exchange Value](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/exchange-value/) - [Outlaw Communities of Care](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/outlaw-communities-of-care/) - [A Partial Form](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/a-partial-form/) - [The Right to Narrate](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-right-to-narrate/) - [Conversation, Presence, Politics](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/conversation-presence-politics/) - [untitled from Screen to Space](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/untitled-from-screen-to-space/) - [Palestinian Films as Political Education in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/palestinian-films-as-political-education/) - [talking about it is also resistance \ The Interview as Form and Force](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/talking-about-it/) - [Nakbas. Of Views, Few and Far (In)Between](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/of-views/) - [Countering Forensic Violence \ Philip Scheffner’s Revision](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/countering-forensic-violence/) - [Afterword \
Toward Proof, Toward Liberation](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/afterword-toward-proof-toward-liberation/) - [Striking Evidence \
A Counterforensics of Courtroom Assemblies](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/striking-evidence/) - [At the Center of a Thing You’re Absent From](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-center-of-a-thing-youre-absent-from/) - [Cell Formation, Disinformation](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/cell-formation-disinformation/) - [They Are Shooting at Our Shadows](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/they-are-shooting-at-our-shadows/) - [The End of Archaeology as We Know It](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-end-of-archaeology/) - [A Change of Register
(Notes on Man number 4)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/a-change-of-register/) - [Just Evidence](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/just-evidence/) - [No Justice, No Relief](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/no-justice-no-relief/) - [Tongueless Whispers and Recited Choreographies](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/tongueless-whispers/) - [Technological Ecologies of Encounter](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/technological-ecologies-of-encounter/) - [Sard \ On Sieges and Lockdowns: Some Classical Approaches](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sard-on-sieges-and-lockdowns/) - [An Entanglement of Weeds and Film](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/an-entanglement-of-weeds-and-film/) - [The Making of The Making of . . . ](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-making-of-the-making-of/) - [Love Is Blind: A Sovereign Intimacy Roundtable](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/love-is-blind-a-sovereign-intimacy-roundtable/) - [Four Propositions on True Crime and Abolition](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/four-propositions-on-true-crime-and-abolition/) - [Conspiracies and Caretakers: Making Homes for African American Home Movies](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/conspiracies-and-caretakers-making-homes-for-african-american-home-movies/) - [What Remains](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/what-remains/) - [True Value](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/true-value/) - [American Glass Factory](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/american-glass-factory/) - [My Truth, Your Truth, Our Truth](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/my-truth-your-truth-our-truth/) - [Introduction: What Do Cameras Do?](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/introduction-what-do-cameras-do/) - [Recovering Histories of Struggle and Solidarity with Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/recovering-histories-of-struggle-and-solidarity-with-kristine-khouri-and-rasha-salti/) - [We, in the City](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/we-in-the-city/) - [A Skin We Share](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/a-skin-we-share/) - [To Accelerate Time: Reflections on Artmaking in Post-invasion Iraq](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/to-accelerate-time-reflections-on-artmaking-in-post-invasion-iraq/) - [The Freedom of Fiction](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-freedom-of-fiction/) - [Working with Visual Remains](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/working-with-visual-remains/) - [The Conversation: Listening and Eavesdropping across Generations](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-conversation/) - [Bidayyat \ Lineaments of Iltizam](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/bidayyat-lineaments-of-iltizam/) - [Bidayyat \ Intimate Exile](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/bidayyat-intimate-exile/) - [Bidayyat \ Of Place and Cement](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/bidayyat-of-place-and-cement/) - [Sard \ On a Day Previously Known as Valentine’s Day](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sard-valentines-day/) - [Strata of Natural History (español)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/natural-history-espanol/) - [Strata of Natural History](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/natural-history/) - [The Heron's Song: An Introduction to Sard](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-herons-song/) - [Sard \ Nightmare Chase](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sard-nightmare-chase/) - [Bidayyat \ A Link, Courier, or Smuggler between Generations: Interview with Ali Atassi](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/bidayyat-like-a-link-interview-with-ali-atassi/) - [Documentary Says Amen! St. Clair Bourne and Black Liberation Theology](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/documentary-says-amen-st-clair-bourne-and-black-liberation-theology/) - In the same 2006 interview with Black Camera, Bourne explained that it was imperative that, along with many of his fellow documentary lmmakers in the late 1960s, we “identify with and are a part of the subjects we are lming .... We spoke out on behalf of them and us at the same time. I - [Bidayyat \ Capturing Time, Briefly](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/bidayyat-capturing-time-briefly/) - [Bidayyat \ One Who Wants to Know, and Another Who Tries to Remember (A Conversation)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/bidayyat-one-who-wants-to-know/) - [Dear Omar](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/dear-omar/) - [A Wry Smile: On Overlapping Generations](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/a-wry-smile/) - [How Does It End? Story and the Property Form](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/how-does-it-end-story-and-the-property-form/) - [Animistic Apparatus: A Gathering](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/animistic-apparatus/) - [The Glitter Within](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-glitter-within/) - [Partitioned Listening: I hear (colonial) voices](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/partitioned-listening/) - [Sovereignties, Activisms, and Audiovisual Spiritualities (Part 2)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sovereignty-activism-and-audiovisual-spiritualities-part2/) - [Soberanías, activismos y espiritualidades audiovisuales (Parte 2)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/soberanias-activismos-y-espiritualidades-audiovisuales-parte2/) - [Did The Fire Read The Stories It Burnt?*](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/did-the-fire-read-the-stories-it-burnt/) - [Relations, Obligation, Divergences](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/relations-obligation-divergences/) - [Sovereignties, Activisms, and Audiovisual Spiritualities (Part 1)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sovereignty-activism-part-01/) - [Soberanías, activismos y espiritualidades audiovisuales (Parte 1)](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/soberanias-activismos-y-espiritualidades-audiovisuales-parte-1/) - [Maia and the Boundaries of the Frame](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/maia-and-the-boundaries-of-the-frame/) - [Dossier \ Introduction: Documentary World-Making](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/dossier-introduction-documentary-world-making/) - [Character Limit](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/character-limit/) - [Expectation Bordering on Demand: Jem Cohen and Rick Prelinger](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/expectation-bordering-on-demand-jem-cohen-and-rick-prelinger/) - [Re: Beyond Story](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/re-beyond-story/) - [All That Glitters: Reflections on the Not-So-Golden Age of Documentary Storytelling](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/all-that-glitters-reflections-on-the-not-so-golden-age-of-documentary-storytelling/) - [Sundance, CNEX, and the Cultural Politics of Story](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/sundance-cnex-and-the-cultural-politics-of-story/) - [Platform Politics: Netflix, the Media Industries, and the Value of Reality](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/platform-politics-netflix-the-media-industries-and-the-value-of-reality/) - [Possibility Made Real](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/possibility-made-real/) - [Irresistible Rise of Story: The Historical Transformation of Radical Commitments](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/irresistible-rise-of-story-the-historical-transformation-of-radical-commitments/) - [Outreach as Production: Family Pictures USA](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/outreach-as-production-family-pictures-usa/) - [A Story on Story: Camel Races, Robot Jockeys, and Filmmaking](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/a-story-on-story-camel-races-robot-jockeys-and-filmmaking/) - [Assembly Over Algorithm: Resisting Overnarrativization](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/assembly-over-algorithm-resisting-overnarrativization/) - [Telling Something Else: Documentary Beyond (Hi)story](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/telling-something-else-documentary-beyond-history/) - [The time it takes to do things with trembling hands](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-time-it-takes-to-do-things-with-trembling-hands/) - [Introduction: In the Presence of Others](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/introduction-in-the-presence-of-others/) - [Introduction: Documenting Blackness at the NMAAHC](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/introduction-documenting-blackness-at-the-nmaahc/) - [The Exceptions](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-exceptions/) - To them, being an artist meant being free to be worthless. - [The Accidental Outside](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-accidental-outside/) - [Standards Deviation](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/standards-deviation/) - [Who Are Film Festivals For?](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/who-are-film-festivals-for/) - [Visible Records of a Definite Problem](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/visible-records/) - [This should be a map or a diagram but it’s just a list](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/this-should-be-a-map/) - [Introduction: Beyond Story](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/introduction-beyond-story/) - [Our Violent Commons: Empathy and Codependency](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/our-violent-commons-empathy-and-codependency/) - [Our Violent Commons: The Territory of Listening](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/our-violent-commons-the-territory-of-listening/) - [Principles for Decolonial Film](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/principles-for-decolonial-film/) - [Our Violent Commons: Witnessing the Worldly Within the Imperial Commons](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/our-violent-commons-witnessing-the-worldly-within-the-imperial-commons/) - [Visualizing the Rights of the Dead: Photography after Arendt](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/visualizing-the-rights-of-the-dead-photography-after-arendt/) - [Can Rights Be Found on a Map?](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/can-rights-be-found-on-a-map/) - [Rewriting the Grammars of Innocence: Abounaddara and The Right to the Image](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/rewriting-the-grammars-of-innocence-abounaddara-and-the-right-to-the-image/) - [Conditions: Warren Sack in conversation with Jenny Reardon and Bonnie Honig](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/conditions-warren-sack-in-conversation-with-jenny-reardon-and-bonnie-honig/) - [Truth, Politics, Disintegration: Forensic Architecture at the Whitney](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/truth-politics-disintegration-forensic-architecture-at-the-whitney/) - [Picking Up The Power: Tania Bruguera and Gregory Sholette in Conversation](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/picking-up-the-power-tania-bruguera-and-gregory-sholette-in-conversation/) - [Arendt in Jerusalem: Documentary, Theatricality, and the Echo of Irony](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/arendt-in-jerusalem-documentary-theatricality-and-the-echo-of-irony/) - [Life, Film, and Decolonial Struggle](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/life-film-and-decolonial-struggle/) - [To Have Many Returns: Loss in the Presence of Others](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/to-have-many-returns-loss-in-the-presence-of-others/) - [Action Between Art and Citizenship](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/action-between-art-and-citizenship/) - [On The Collection: Ways of Seeing African American Moving Images](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/on-the-collection-ways-of-seeing-african-american-moving-images/) - [On The Collection: #OscarsSoWhite and the Friends of the Black Oscar Nominees Award](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/on-the-collection-oscarssowhite-and-the-friends-of-the-black-oscar-nominees-award/) - [On The Collection: Debbie Allen – dancer](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/on-the-collection-debbie-allen-dancer/) - [On The Collection: Flash(es) of the Spirit: Images of Black Life as a Spiritual Encounter](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/on-the-collection-flashes-of-the-spirit-images-of-black-life-as-a-spiritual-encounter/) - [Ghosts and the Machine: When Documenting Past Black Life Haunts its Present](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ghosts-and-the-machine-when-documenting-past-black-life-haunts-its-present/) - [Discerning the Call: A Let the Church Say Amen! Corner](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/discerning-the-call-a-let-the-church-say-amen-corner/) - [Documentary Strain, Black Artists, and the Afrofuture: Terence Nance’s The Triptych](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/documentary-strain-black-artists-and-the-afrofuture-terence-nances-the-triptych/) - [Independents and Institutions: A Conversation with Stanley Nelson](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/independents-and-institutions-a-conversation-with-stanley-nelson/) - [Throwing Punches: The Athletic Aesthetics of Kevin Jerome Everson’s Filmmaking](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/throwing-punches-the-athletic-aesthetics-of-kevin-jerome-eversons-filmmaking/) - [Ways of Organizing: A Questionnaire](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-a-questionnaire/) - [Ways of Organizing: Institutional Forms](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-institutional-forms/) - [Ways of Organizing: “What’s Good Is Not What’s Really Good”](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-whats-good-is-not-whats-really-good/) - [Ways of Organizing: Cinematic Public Space](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-cinematic-public-space/) - [Ways of Organizing: Passages](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-passages/) - [Ways of Organizing: Present Time](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-present-time/) - [Ways of Organizing: Against Convergence](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-against-convergence/) - [States of Documentary: Funding and Programming](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/states-of-documentary-funding-and-programming/) - [Spectacle as Camouflage: How the IDF Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Activism](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/spectacle-as-camouflage-how-the-idf-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-video-activism/) - [English is Spoken Here / English is Broken Here](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/english-is-spoken-here-english-is-broken-here/) - [Ways of Organizing: An Introduction](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/ways-of-organizing-an-introduction/) - [Beyond Story: an Online, Community-Based Manifesto](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/beyond-story-an-online-community-based-manifesto/) - [Documentary’s Longue Durée: Reimagining the Documentary Tradition](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/documentarys-longue-duree-reimagining-the-documentary-tradition/) - [Other People’s Words](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/other-peoples-words/) - [Theories of the Earth: Surface and Extraction in the Landscape Film](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/theories-of-the-earth-surface-and-extraction-in-the-landscape-film/) - The frontispiece of James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth, published in 1788, illustrates the Scottish geologist’s radical methodology for the history of the earth. The implication here is that the planet’s substructure—the literal ground we walk upon—serves as a historiographic inscription, an image of “deep time,” in which embedded temporalities take us beneath the immediate - [Beyond the Expedient: An Interview with Isaac Julien](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/beyond-the-expedient-an-interview-with-isaac-julien/) - [Not at the Click of a Button](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/not-at-the-click-of-a-button/) - [iDocument Police: Contingency, Resistance, and the Precarious Present](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/idocument-police-contingency-resistance-and-the-precarious-present/) - [The Present Moment: A Conversation with Kirsten Johnson](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-present-moment-a-conversation-with-kirsten-johnson/) - [Everything Can Be Optimized](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/everything-can-be-optimized/) - [Archival Interventions: Cecilia Aldarondo and Thomas Allen Harris in Conversation](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/archival-interventions-cecilia-aldarondo-and-thomas-allen-harris-in-conversation/) - [“All of our grievances are connected”: An Interview with The Illuminator Collective](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/all-of-our-grievances-are-connected-an-interview-with-the-illuminator-collective/) - [The Sublimity of Document: Carl Akeley, the Habitat Diorama, and Dioramic Cinema](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/the-sublimity-of-document-carl-akeley-the-habitat-diorama-and-dioramic-cinema/) - [Representational Regimes: A Conversation with Abounaddara](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/representational-regimes-a-conversation-with-abounaddara/) - [Technologies of Seeing and Technologies of Corporeality](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/technologies-of-seeing-and-technologies-of-corporeality/) - [Camera Ministry: A Conversation with Khalik Allah](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/camera-ministry-a-conversation-with-khalik-allah/) - [“Something is there”: Filmmaking in Multiple Realities](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/something-is-there-filmmaking-in-multiple-realities/) - [Targeted Killing: Ariella Azoulay in Conversation with Miki Kratsman](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/targeted-killing-ariella-azoulay-in-conversation-with-miki-kratsman/) - [Action, Documentation, Documentary](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/action-documentation-documentary/) - The Early Photography of Allan Sekula, Martha Rosler, Fred Lonidier and Phil Steinmetz - [Field Notes \ Programming Experimental Documentary](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/field-notes-programming-experimental-documentary/) - [Film Unions and the Low-Budget Independent Film Production](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/film-unions-and-the-low-budget-independent-film-production/) - [Field Notes \ Who Are Film Festivals For?](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/field-notes-who-are-film-festivals-for/) - [Field Notes \ forumdoc.bh](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/field-notes-forumdoc-bh/) - [Dossier \ Disorganized Organization: Signs of Life in the Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s Paper Archive](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/dossier-disorganized-organization/) - [Dossier \ Before, Within, Around, Beyond: World-Making in the Digital Archive](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/393-2/) - [Dossier \ Another Table: Black Women’s Cinema and the Production of Community](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/dossier-another-table-black-womens-cinema-and-the-production-of-community/) - [Dossier \ Decolonizing Archives and Law’s Frame of Accountability](https://worldrecordsjournal.org/dossier-decolonizing-archives-and-laws-frame-of-accountability/) - [Dossier \ The Abominable Community. 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