What’s a Cellphilm? An Introduction

MacEntee, Katie; Burkholder, Casey; Schwab-Cartas, Joshua

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“…Within cellphilm method, it is as important to describe the production process as it is to analyze the works that emerge from the workshops (Macentee et al, 2016). At a cellphilm workshop, Casey provided three prompts for Alecxis and Jianne (as well as two other Nepali female participants) to create cellphilms in response to: "Who am I in Hong Kong?…”

Section: Cellphilming As Girl Methodsmentioning

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“…Seeking to forge a way to bring participants into the dissemination phase of participatory visual research we write together about a project that we undertook in 2015 in Hong Kong that sought to examine identity, belonging, and resistance with a group of Filipina, Indian, Pakistani, and Nepali Hong Kongers. Through cellphilm method (cellphone + filmmaking + intention; see MacEntee et al, 2016MacEntee et al, , 2019 as well as 20 semi-structured interviews, three focus groups, a participatory screening, and the development of a participatory archive of our cellphilms on YouTube, we sought to share the multifarious experiences of Filipina, Indian, Pakistani, and Nepali Hong Kongers. In looking back on our collaboration in 2021, and in the wake of Hong Kong's 2019 Extradition Bill Protests, 1 as two Filipina participants (Jianne and Alecxis) and the Project Investigator (Casey), we ask: how did the creation of cellphilms impact our understandings of Filipina identity and activism in Hong Kong in 2015, and how do we understand them today?…”

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Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing

Burkholder

Soriano²,

Ramos-Pakit³

2021

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Hong Kong’s non-white ethnic minorities – including its Filipina residents – are often described in media and policy discourses as a unified group. Speaking back to this misconception, in this article we describe the gendered experiences of two 23-year old Filipinas born and raised in Hong Kong through what Claudia Mitchell has described as girl method – research with girls for girls and about girls’ concerns – in our case producing visual depictions of girlhood in cellphilms (cellphone + filmmaking + intention) and collaborative writing. We write together as co-researchers to extend participatory approaches to research dissemination as we make sense of the changing political situation in Hong Kong in the years since our first collaboration in 2015. Through a polyvocal – many voices writing together – reflection on a cellphilm production project on identities and belonging four years later, we argue that Filipina identity in Hong Kong is complex and multifarious, and we aim to disseminate knowledge by and for Filipina Hong Kongers that speaks back to the erasure of their experiences within larger discourses about Filipinas, gender, and activism in Hong Kong.

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Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing

Burkholder

Soriano²,

Ramos-Pakit³

2021

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“…The first interview, carried out by Haleh, involved Katie MacEntee of York University, Toronto, and drew on her participatory visual research with girls and young women from a rural area of South Africa, exploring the issue of gender-based violence in the era of AIDS (MacEntee, 2015). In her chapter Facing Responses to Cellphilm Screening of African Girlhood in Academic Presentation (MacEntee, 2016) in the book What’s a Cellphilm? Integrating Mobile Phone Technology Into Participatory Visual Research and Activism (MacEntee, Burkholder, & Schwab-Cartas, 2016), she reflects on her project with young South African girls with a critical lens as to “What difference does this make?” How does the presentation of the cellphilms produced by youth contribute to any change?…”

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Exploring the Impact of Youth-Produced Images on Family, Community, and Policy

Mitchell

Lamb

Raissadat

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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There is increasing scholarly attention to the creative ways in which young people are engaging in policy dialogue. Yet what other ways may we study the impact of youth-produced images on audiences? Here, we explore the role that visual researchers occupy as audiences to youth-led participatory visual work addressing critical issues. Drawing on qualitative research approaches in autoethnography, we use a methodology of researcher reflexivity to invite visual researchers through semistructured interviews to position themselves with respect to youth-produced images of sexual violence, refugee experience, and colonial trauma. In shifting our attention from studying the privileged position of researchers with respect to facilitating participatory visual research, we learn about the researcher's privileged perspective on how other audiences may view the work, such as policy makers and community and family members. This study highlights some ethical and methodological considerations of facilitating dialogue between youth and various stakeholders on the critical issues impacting the lives of young people.

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“…Using ‘cellphilms,’ i.e. short films shot and/or edited entirely on a mobile device, in participatory video research re-thinks the participatory video ‘rescue’ model of importing more sophisticated video equipment and using the tools already available to the community in “support of creative production” (MacEntee et al, 2016, p. 8).…”

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Migrating Methods in a Pandemic: Virtual Participatory Video with Migrants in Hong Kong

Ham

Lin

Sunuwar

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Can methods travel the way migrants do? We reflect on this question through the development of what we call ‘virtual participatory video’ or the delivery of participatory video methods for migrant domestic workers and asylum-seekers in Hong Kong – transnationally, online and over Zoom during the pandemic in 2020. The pandemic realities that we grappled with as migration studies scholars and participatory video practitioners reflect realities that working-class and precarious migrants were routinely required to navigate long before the pandemic (e.g., family separation, restriction of personal mobility, maintaining connection through technology). Therefore, we paid particular attention to the challenges and opportunities posed by virtual participatory video, particularly on resultant changes to attention, creativity, and relationality (core tenets of face-to-face participatory video) when time and space are, by necessity, fragmented. The fragmentation of time and space in virtual participatory video entailed a greater presence of migrant realities and demands into the method itself, perhaps most notably a tangible sense of competing demands that participants were expected to negotiate at any particular moment. Attentiveness to competing demands can be particularly valuable when working with members of communities that may experience varying forms of scarcity in relation to time or space, such as migrant domestic workers or asylum-seekers. Re-thinking fragmentation as part of the texture of virtual participatory video illustrated the durability of creativity when day-to-day realities are permitted to intrude on learning over Zoom.

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What’s a Cellphilm? An Introduction

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing

Examining Gender and Resistance with Filipina Hong Kongers through Cellphilm Production and Collaborative Writing

Exploring the Impact of Youth-Produced Images on Family, Community, and Policy

Migrating Methods in a Pandemic: Virtual Participatory Video with Migrants in Hong Kong

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