When Action Teaches — Documentary Practice and the Pedagogy of the Deed
Filmmaker and scholar Angela Aguayo explores how documentary filmmaking becomes a form of political education and direct action.
Why we picked this
The best documentaries do not just document. They intervene. Aguayo has the theoretical framework to explain why, and the filmmaking practice to prove it.
Angela J. Aguayo’s lecture examines documentary filmmaking not as a record of events but as a form of action in itself. Her work asks when and how the camera becomes a tool of pedagogy, teaching audiences, communities, and even the filmmakers themselves through the act of making.
Part of the Heyman Center’s Thursday Lecture Series on “Pedagogy of the Deed,” this talk brings media practice into conversation with the anarchist tradition of propaganda by the deed and Paulo Freire’s theories of liberatory education. The question at stake: can a film do something in the world, or only represent it?
Free and open to the public at the Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room.