"Immersion, Reflection, Triangulation: Festival Research Methods in Small and Precarious Cinemas", Chapter 6 in Shaping Film Festivals In a Changing World: Practice and Methods, eds. Ostrowska and Falicov

The goal of the chapter is to offer alternative and complementary methodological approaches to the study of (small) film festivals in small and precarious film cultures through a post-Third-Worldist lens (Shohat, 1997). Central is the idea that the selected methodological and theoretical frameworks arise in dialogue with the research contexts and subjects. Such a grounding of the approach has as its aim to analyse cultural expression where it originates, instead of acknowledging its existence solely based on international circulation or reflecting on discursive acts based on unilaterally imposed western ideas on aesthetics and representation. The proposed methods are based in anthropological fieldwork and sociological studies of film and media.