Co-Creation
Based on the definition of co-creation in which "Projects emerge out of process, and evolve from within communities and with people, rather than being made for or about them." Sheffield DocFest Film and Alternate Realities programmes join forces with Kat Cizek from MIT Open Documentary Lab’s Co-Creation Studio to curate a programme of recent and vanguard films and Alternate realities works that show co-creation as a continuing practice.
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AMERICA
This ‘guerrilla’ newsreel documentary portrays reactions to the Vietnam by anti-war teenagers and African American militants, who talk tough and battle the police.
  • 1969
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Co-Creation: Collective Dreams, Co-Created Realities
We are delighted to be joined by Katerina Cizek, Artistic Director, Research Scientist and Co-Founder Co-Creation Studio, who will give a keynote presentation outlining the practices and philosophies of co-creation, according to the studio’s manifesto.
  • Talks Programme
    Alternate Realities Programme
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Conversations with Bina48
A quest for friendship with a humanoid turned into a rabbit-hole of questions regarding the future, at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
  • Stephanie Dinkins
  • 2018
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Earth Swimmers
This film attends to the tricks and techniques that mole catchers use to access the underground world of the mole.
  • Hermione Spriggs
  • 2021
  • Film Programme
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Feminist Economics Football: A Co-operative Game for Sheffield
A public football match, with three sides playing on a hexagonal pitch, illustrates intersecting themes in Feminist Economics.
  • Feminist Exchange Network, Ailie Rutherford, Mandy Roberts, Sapna Agarwal
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Gondwana
This VR project allows you to roam through Australia’s ancient Daintree rainforest as it simulates 100 year of climate change impact.
  • Ben J Andrews, Emma Roberts
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Goodbye, Captain
The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.
  • Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Soares de Almeida
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Making-With
The fungus that first facilitated life on earth, 470 million years ago, again inspires new worlds in this collaborative film by artist Gregory Herbert and mycologist Professor Katie J. Field.
  • Gregory Herbert
  • 2021
  • Film Programme
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Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography
In the early 1980s, director Bonnie Sherr Klein and professional stripper Lindalee Tracey set off to examine the pornography industry and its effects on society.
  • Bonnie Sherr Klein
  • 1981
  • Film Programme
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One Day in Ukraine
Media activist and filmmaking collective Babylon’13, formed during the Maidan uprisings, focus on the events of March 14, 2022 – the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian War.
  • Volodymyr Tykhyy
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Overcoming the Darkness
This kaleidoscope of stories shines a light on Ukrainians bravely defending their land against the Russian invasion, where millions struggle for their right to exist.
  • KINODOPOMOHA
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Rising Sun Blues
An actress asks a sex worker to help her create a film in which they share secrets of their professions, and they become both filmmakers and characters.
  • Renata Ferraz, Maria Roxo
  • 2022
  • Film Programme
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Shorts: Beyond Our Own Eyes
Attuning to the vibratory world of moles; imagining climate adaptive trees in an era of environmental destruction; and digging for the mycelium networks that facilitated life on earth.
  • Film Programme
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Songbirds
This documentary musical, filmed in a female prison, was created and produced in collaboration with inmates, and based on their life experiences.
  • Brian Hill
  • 2006
  • Film Programme
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The Sound Voice Project

A unique performance installation exploring powerful stories of voice loss and identity that features immersive, surround-sound and audio-visual settings.

  • Hannah Conway
  • 2021
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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These Are My People...
One of the first Canadian documentaries to foreground an Indigenous perspective on the history of Indigenous-settler relations.
  • Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, Willie Dunn, Barbara Wilson, Roy Daniels
  • 1969
  • Film Programme
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These Are My People... + You Are On Indian Land
A screening of You Are On Indian Land, preceded by short film These Are My People...
  • Film Programme
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A TikTok War
From sheltering in bunkers to travelling across Europe as refugees, TikTok has been appropriated to chronicle and explain the horror of the Ukraine war.
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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TR333
Artist-filmmaker April Lin 林森 presents TR333, a speculative construction of a new species of tree developed in conversation with ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni.
  • April Lin 林森
  • 2021
  • Film Programme
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You Are On Indian Land
A group of Native Americans near the Canadian border attempt to blockade a road that runs through their land, resulting in a clash with Canadian police.
  • Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, Mort Ransen
  • 1969
  • Film Programme
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