Hannah Brasier

Dr Hannah Brasier is a researcher by creative practice in digital media. She has a background in producing online interactive audiovisual nonfiction projects using the Korsakow authoring software. These projects use the facetted and multiplicit affordances of the online space to peform the world as vibrant, precarious, and entangled. Hannah has published on these projects in Studies in Documentary Film Journal, where the outcome has evolved as a practice of attuned noticing for crafting ecologically conscious expanded nonfiction.   Recently, Hannah has been exploring damaged Australian environments through this practice of attuned noticing by experimenting with smartphone filmmaking and the experimental short form. Her recent film Surface Levels was shot in Kinchega National Park and the surrounding Menindee Lakes, a region well-known for drought, floods and ongoing mass fish deaths. The five-minute experimental nonfiction smartphone film uses a list-like structure to attend to the unnoticed rhythms of damage and beauty within the landscape. Surface Levels was commissioned by Australian Environments on Screen in partnership with MINA (www.mina.pro).    Hannah is currently interested in expanding her practice of attuned noticing in different forms of digital media, to explore the possibilities for using techology to 'make sense' of human-real world interactions. She is further interested in alternatives to story for nonfiction media making. Hannah teaches digital, experimental, and documentary screen production in conceptual studios and practice-based courses in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT.