Dr. Dorit Naaman

Biography

Dorit Naaman is a trained filmmaker and film theorist who has spent the past fifteen years working on site-specific participatory media projects, including single-channel documentaries, interactive documentaries, augmented reality, performance, curation, guided walks, and community events. She co-embarked on the Research-Creation collaborative venture, Belle Park, in Kingston, Ontario, which addresses colonial environmental violence and resilience. Her project, 'Jerusalem, We Are Here', released in 2016, is an interactive documentary exploring the layers of Palestinian history and Israeli presence in southern Jerusalem through community collaboration and digital storytelling. Naaman's academic career includes merging theory and practice, with formal education in filmmaking from Tel-Aviv University and Syracuse University. She combines her extensive background in filmmaking with theoretical interests developed through her PhD program at the University of Alberta, and she has been particularly invested in developing sound participatory media practices. Naaman's work focuses on various facets of cinema, particularly Israeli and Palestinian narratives, nationalism, and memory, and she has published numerous scholarly articles and edited collections in these areas.

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