Tom Zubrycki Tom Zubrycki

Exploring Power & Trust in Documentary

A STUDY OF TOM ZUBRYCKI’S MOLLY & MOBARAK
Kate Nash, Studies in Film, University of Tasmania 2010

Power represents a problem for documentary, raising questions about the politics and ethics of representation. In this article the notion of power in documentan; is explored. The influence of domination as a model for power relations within docu­mentary is challenged and a Foucauldian notion of power relationships suggested as an alternative way of conceptualising the documentary-maker participant relation­ship.

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Tom Zubrycki Tom Zubrycki

Molly & Mobarak

IF magazine by Bec Barry

Most of us would remember from three years ago the compelling television and print images of refugee boat people stranded off the coast of Australia or the riots and self-mutilation cases at the Woomera Detention Centre. What most of us probably do not know is what happened next? Ever since that initial media hysteria the public interest odometer on the issue of refugees in Australia seems to have fallen by the wayside.

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