Resistant Imagery in Struggles for Justice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Migrant Media is a collective of migrant, black and refugee film activists established in 1991. The struggles of race and class are at the core of their resistance-based documentary film-making and a dominant thread in their work is around campaigns for justice by the families of people killed by the police in the UK. They employ the techniques of Third Cinema to incite political change through a provocative strategy of deconstructing established narratives. As Getino and Solanas (1971) state: “Every image that documents, bears witness to,<br/>refutes or deepens the truth of a situation is something more than a film image or purely artistic fact; it becomes something which the system finds indigestible.” In this spirit Migrant Media challenges conventional documentary, adopting a position of the filmmakers as the gatherers of resistant imagery. This documentary practice is a radical approach in confronting dominant media and state narratives. Resistance, from a community perspective, is documented over 3 decades, employing a “documentary of force” research method.<br/>
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".