past events

 

The Music. The Story. The Food.

LDP Streaming - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Live Doc Project partnered with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra (WSO) to create a multisensorial at-home experience around music, food, and history. In sequences filmed and edited by LDP, Rob Nelson joined Maestro Robert Franz to discuss the times and tastes surrounding the composers of a seven-part concert series as part of the 2021-2022 WSO concert season, including recommended recipes and dishes to order from local businesses. See the trailer here. Download the interactive recipe book here. 

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2020 shows at International Network for Theory of History, Mexico; Performance Studies International, Croatia; Congress Canada have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Conference Presentations and Symposia

Forthcoming 2025                       

“Expanding Cinema to See(k) our Past and Protect our Future.”
Society for Cinema and Media Scholars (SCMS), April 6, 2025 

2024                           

“Cinema as place: Site-specific film as antidote to screen-based isolation.” 
Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC)
. Montréal, Canada. June 16, 2024. 

2023                         

“Live Documentary as Negotiating Ground for Audience Engagement and Documentary Truth.”
Visible Evidence, Udine, Italy. 

2022                           

“Live Documentary as Social Cinema,” Invited Talk.
Queen’s University.

2022                           

“Live Documentary: Social Cinema and the Cinepoetics of Doubt.”
Moving Histories Symposium, Windsor, Canada (online).

 

2022

“Mediators Included: Live Documentary as a Metamodern Response to Historiophoty.”
International Network for Theory of History, Puebla, Mexico (online).

 

2021

“Artist Talk.”
Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures, Ottawa, Canada (online).

 

2019

“Live Documentary as an Ephemeral and Interdisciplinary Historiophoty.” 
UAAC-Conference of Universities Art Association of Canada, Quebec City, Canada.

 

2019

“You Had to Be There: Live Documentary as Social Cinema.” Invited Talk.
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

 

2019

“Gathering as bulwark to truth: re-engaging history through live cinema.”
Screen Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.

2019

“You Had to Be There: Engaging History as Research/Creation via Live Documentary.” 
Propeller Symposium, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.

2018                           
Plenary Panel, with Alison Landsberg, Mia Treacey, Robert Burgoyne. 
Film & History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. 

 

2018

“From Voice-of-God to Ringmaster: Live Participatory Documentary and the Imperative to Create Reflexive, Collaborative, Multiperspectival Histories.”
Society for Artistic Research Conference, Plymouth, UK.

2017

“Proposal for a New-Old Method: A New Historiophoty of Polyvocality.”
Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2017

“Constructing a Historiophoty for the Digital Sublunar.”
Pluralities Conference, San Francisco , California.
 

2017

“Embodied Audiences and Historical Truth in the Internet Age.”
NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, Paris, France.

2017

“Manifesto for New Historiophoties: Off-roading Audiovisual Histories, Foregrounding
Polyvocalities and Human-to-Human Interactivity via Live Participatory Documentary.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, Illinois.

 

2016

“Live Documentary: Independent, Interactive and Social Media.”
Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 

2016                           

“Toward Historiophoty: Historical Documentary via Participatory Live Cinema Performance.”
Visible Evidence Documentary Conference, Bozeman, Montana.


2016                           

“Live Documentary and Communal Authorship in Analog Space.”
NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies,
Presented by Creative Connections: Documentary, Interactivity, and Visual Arts, Potsdam, Germany.

 

2015                         

“Interactive Performance-Based Live Documentary Cinema.” 
Research Institute Symposium, NYU Tisch School for the Arts, New York, USA.