upcoming events
Pitas and passports.
The Live Doc Project is working on upcoming projects with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and partnering with University of Windsor historian Robert Nelson and history students Hallelujah Aboona and Faiha Alhussainawi on the SSHRC-funded partnership engage project “Pitas and Passports: The Arab Foodways of Windsor/Detroit” for a live Documentary performance of Pitas and Passports at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn Michigan.
Windsor International Film Festival 2016
University of Windsor 2017
Pluralities Conference, San Francisco CA 2017
Film & History Conference, Milwaukee WI 2017
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.
Crafting Performance From Found Objects.
Join award-winning interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi for an engaging artist talk filled with curiosity, humour, and sonic exploration. Her acclaimed one-woman show, Say Something Bunny!, praised by Vogue as “the best new theatre experience in town.”
She’ll also share insights from her work in progress, Electric Neon Clock, where she weaves her family’s WWII internment file into an immersive live documentary.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Live Documentary As Jazz.
Dr. Cyrus Sundar Singh is a Gemini award-winning filmmaker whose work has been exhibited in Senegal, India, Spain, Haiti, Jamaica, and Sri Lanka, and by broadcasters, including Bell Media, CBC, VisionTV, Smithsonian Channel, Discovery Channel, and MuchMusic.
He will share his methodology of the live documentary as an exercise in letting go of control, allowing the story to unfold with spontaneity.
Friday, October 25, 2024
The American Glass Factory.
Following acclaimed presentations at True/False, The Camden International Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Live Doc Project and Department of History are pleased to present American Glass Factory, a live cinema performance by Jason Fox.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
The Movie Starts When You Walk In The Front Door.
The Humanities Research Group presents Sam Green with The Movie Starts When You Walk in the Front Door!, a talk on documentary, liveness, and the magic of cinema.
The title of this lecture, part of the Martin Wesley Lecture Series, is inspired by a slogan of the Fox movie theatre chain back in the 1930s - making the point that a film is comprised of not just the images on a screen but also all of the elements of the experience around it. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green will explore the connections between filmmaking and live performance. In this talk, Green will use excerpts from his own films to ask questions about the nature of the cinematic experience, as well as the radical role of the ephemeral in a media landscape where almost every movie is now immediately accessible.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
130 Year Road Trip.
The WIFF Live Doc “130 Year Road” is a new engagement with cinema and history. Merging documentary with performance, interactivity, improv and audience participation. The World Premiere of the Live Participatory Documentary.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
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).
2024
“Cinema as place: Site-specific film as antidote to screen-based isolation.”
Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC). Montréal, Canada.
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.