Strategije i tehnike desktop dokumentarca kao kreativni pedagoški alati u doba globalne pandemije Covid-19
Strategies and Techniques of Desktop Documentary as Creative Pedagogical Tools in the Era of COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Summary/Abstract: Desktop documentary is a contemporary film and media practice that self-reflexivelyexplores technological limitations of the computer interface and its potentialitiesin order to create unconventional audio-visual works with elementsof documentary and experimental cinema. This paper envisages the possibilityof using desktop documentary methods and techniques within the context ofcurrent online education – the globally dominant model of knowledge transferand exchange during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the focus of thisarticle, in comparison to previous theoretical studies of desktop documentaries,which primarily investigated cinematic, artistic and media features of thisform, is transferred from aesthetic and poetic to pedagogical, methodologicaland epistemological issues. Although several scholar papers have already discussedthe possibility to employ desktop documentaries within the space ofclassrooms, their understanding of this practice was different from its contemporarymode theoretically acknowledged and creatively practiced by Kevin B.Lee, inaugurated with his paradigmatic film Transformers: The Premake. Lee’svision, namely, presupposes a more transgressive approach towards desktopfilmmaking, which entails various avant-garde and experimental cinematic andmedia techniques. Having as its starting point such bold methods, this articleconsiders, analyzes and critically evaluates desktop documentary strategies andtechniques relevant for online teaching: self-reflexive thought about technological limits and potentialities of online platforms; exploration of new digital aestheticswhich oppose predefined digital forms; speculative discourse based oncritical thought; online mode of lecture performance, etc. This paper thus opensthe possibility to transpose and integrate the concepts and techniques of desktopdocumentary, primarily marked by avant-garde and experimental traits, into thecreative methods of conducting the online teaching process – and eventually,after the termination of the pandemic, to preserve and expand them within thephysical spaces of schools, colleges and universities.

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