Michael B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Music at the MacEwan University Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications, Canada. He is the founding program chair of the MusCan Film Series, serves on the editorial board of the journal Intersections, is the program committee for KISMIF (Keep it Simple, Make it Fast), is on the scientific committee for COMbART, and is an active member of the International Council of Traditional Music Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. He is the author of Playing for Change (2016), Remix and Life Hack in HipHop (2016), and Finding Phish (2020).
Don't try to contain it, or sequester it in a discipline, or organize it into a method. CineWorlding is more-than making a film, it is the very making-thinking worlding calls for when it becomes cinematic. More-than human, more-than sited, cineworlding is a practice that must be experimented to do its work. It is neither your work alone, nor mine. It is what occurs in the interstices, in the ecotone 'where individual ecologies, digital cinema technology ecosystem, ethnographic research ecosystem, philosophy ecosystem, cinematic art ecosystem interfere/entangle/interpenetrate each other to produce a rich ecological zone where new complex beings proliferate.' Take cineworlding as a lure and move it into your pedagogical practices. Make it a technique, and be made by it. * Erin Manning, Professor of Studio Arts and Cinema, Concordia University, Canada *