Decolonizing documentary spaces: Enacting care-full methods within educational institutions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, the authors share their experiences of two documentary co-creation projects, the First Peoples’ Post-Secondary Storytelling Exchange and Circle Visions, media initiatives for Indigenous college students and emerging filmmakers, which took place in two post-secondary institutions in what is today called Québec, Canada. The authors frame their reflections historically as well as through the lens of Indigenous sovereignty to consider their projects’ relationships to ongoing Indigenous resistance. The article moves between personal recollections of the projects and the care-full, relational methodologies, processes, outcomes and priorities of co-creative approaches to decolonizing pedagogy and filmmaking. Despite challenges posed by the institutional colonial apparatus, the authors identify opportunities for Indigenous creatives to express themselves in culturally relevant ways, while enacting meaningful change upon the academic contexts within which media mentorship and filmmaking take place. Prioritizing care and generosity over extraction and control, these initiatives offer generative pathways for creation, storytelling and stewardship for planetary well-being.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.023 | 0.031 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.051 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.020 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".