Camera Monologue: Cultural Critique beyond Collaboration, Participation and Dialogue

Suhr, Christian

doi:10.1080/08949468.2018.1497332

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“…During my first scouting shoot, I slowly discovered how my camera was triggering new kinds of ethnographic data and slowly transforming the relationship with my research participants. Filming their activities in the different spheres of their social life soon provided not only illustrative personal examples but also implicit and unspoken multisensorial perspectives (Pink, 2007;Suhr, 2018), on how these Muslim women activists are negotiating their place in this particular period of failing secularism. I observed how they "acted" and "performed" differently in the presence of my camera and reflected upon the possible interpretations of these new narratives.…”

Section: Film a S A Coll Abor Ative Re S E Arch Pro Ce Ssmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration in documentary filmmaking and its discontents: Reflections from the field

Schrago

2024

Visual Anthropology Review

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Collaborative practice can sometimes be flawed and exploitative. Drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork within an Indian Muslim women's organization, my article examines the co‐creative practice and its pitfalls and what it ultimately reveals about reflexivity and the politics of (self)representation. I discuss how my attempt at making a collaborative/co‐authored film project with my research participants became difficult to realize in its theoretical and methodological intent, for the collaborators inevitably fall across different positionalities and accesses to power. Rather than succeeding at co‐writing the film, the experience revealed how the power dynamics can be even more pronounced in collaborative filmmaking practice.

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Section: Film a S A Coll Abor Ative Re S E Arch Pro Ce Ssmentioning

confidence: 99%