Film(ed) Evidence: Strategies to Reclaim Justice

This VR Exploratory Lab project investigates how images produced by civilians may revitalise democratic values in society when used as evidence of historical and political injustices. The approach shifts the centrality of the filmmaker in the production process to explore collective filmmaking practices as a method to facilitate justice making. Events or traces of events are captured in the proliferation of  social media images; these function as evidence that requires close reading and/or testimony by witnesses to produce meanings that are intrinsic (or not) to confirm the veracity of images. The exploratory labs undertake to investigate the indexical (authentic) images created by civilians from archival records and social media fragments from the world function to produce a cinematic interpretation of reality.