Bibliographic record
Abstract
When it comes to visual representation in documentary film, the seemingly distant societies and nations of Pakistan and Colombia become siblings, sharing the features that have been assigned to them in the realm of the imaginaries created by hegemonic media and film. Both Colombia and Pakistan have been depicted as forbidden territories, societies in conflict and dysfunctional nations, as well as places of indigenous magical wisdom, exotic primitive music and a poor but noble population. The west, in the form of foreign filmmakers, has embraced these reductive representations as a lingua franca, the same language with a vocabulary of euphemisms such as Third Worlds or Developing Nations, used frequently in order to portray what does not align with principles affiliated with eurocentrism, capitalism and Christianity. As a result, there is a wide arrangement of documentary films about the two countries made by foreigners speaking a unified language of otherisms. We, the Pakistani and the Colombian authors of this text, know it, just as any other Colombian or Pakistani also would. We also know it as Colombian and Pakistani documentary filmmakers and film researchers. As a Pakistani or Colombian documentary filmmaker, how do you become a part of an international film market that would potentially require you to relate to a series of depictions that more often than not get translated into political debate? That is the agglutinating topic that we explored with documentary filmmakers from our nations in the form of conversations about their films, about what the international market expects from them, about the role of the international film development funds, the participation in international film festivals and film markets, and what they expect from themselves as filmmakers in this environment. The answers provided show that all documentary filmmakers have ruminated on these dilemmas, they have faced both episodes of combat and episodes of resignation, revealing a duality that manifests individually and collectively, confronting the documentary filmmaker as the director in a career-building path, with the documentary filmmaker as the autonomous creative critic of the hegemonic film language. This article is conceived as a case study presenting the first results of this research, which has facilitated a communal reflection, an opportunity to unify the concerns of filmmakers from locations and societies that have had a specific representation in cinema and media, in this case Pakistan and Colombia, who end up speaking to each other from the same level and speaking to other communities in similar situations. In addition, the individual experiences of the documentary filmmakers have answered the seldom formulated question of how we - non-western documentary filmmakers - conceive the international film market, a space that mistakenly has had the tendency to regard itself as a neutral. This research features documentary filmmakers Aseneth Suarez Ruiz, Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Mauricio Acosta, Haya Fatima Iqbal, Viviana Gómez Echeverri, Ammar Aziz, Jenni Kivistö & Jussi Rastas, Saad Khan, Clare Weiskopf & Nicolas van Hemelryck, Jamil Alvi and Federico Atehortúa.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".