Visual and Experiential Knowledge in Observational Cinema

Carta, Silvio

doi:10.4000/anthrovision.1480

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“…(2018) claim that even if the films promote emotional engagement, the actual learning can be limited. However, it has also been argued that human values can be challenged through images, through the environment, social debate and through multidisciplinary dialogue in an informal event (Carta, 2015; Centeno et al., 2017).…”

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“…Audio-visual materials (such films or documentaries) have been considered in scientific research as a potential educational tool for the transmission of messages to society (Carta, 2015; Das et al., 2017; Ramacciotti, 1960). Not being an objective art, cinema is often used as a didactic medium in pre- and postgraduate student training, both in the areas of social and health sciences (Dickens et al., 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding illnesses through a film festival: An observational study

Reigada

Martín-Utrilla

Pérez‐Ros

et al. 2019

Heliyon

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Audio-visual materials play a fundamental role in the context of education, care and clinical treatment, as they seem to have a high impact on public awareness. This study aims to describe what messages are perceived by the society at an International Festival of Short Films and Art on Diseases that may help to understand difficult topics, such as illness, dying and suffering. Through an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, using full participant observation and an open, self-administered questionnaire, 32 short films were analysed during a healthcare art festival. Categories were developed using inductive content analysis. The message perceived by the participants, after the viewing of the shorts and reflection of the debates among the attendees, were considered in four categories: i) creative and positive education is possible; ii) awareness of preconception and practical duties; iii) meaning of life changes the experience of illness; iv) family and caregivers also experienced suffering. The short films are considered as an excellent tool to generate social dialogue and debate. Public events can be understood as an opportunity to acquire, in an emotional and critical manner, other competencies for public awareness. Together, they are capable of communicating difficult messages through a fast, positive, and creative way.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Understanding illnesses through a film festival: An observational study

Reigada

Martín-Utrilla

Pérez‐Ros

et al. 2019

Heliyon

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“…It is achieved by constant decision making: where to look, how to frame the scene, where to step, and how best to move. Silvio Carta (2015) writes that "[o]bservational filmmaking involves the production of unexpected discoveries dependent on circumstance… shooting observationally reflects moment-to-moment judgement in the arena of risk opened by particular situations. This element of risk assigns importance to improvisation and spontaneity, forcing the filmmaker to stay focused on what is going on in front of the camera… it requires immediate decision-making" (p. 4-5).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is no response to the act of seeing. The person holding and controlling a camera is embodied catalyst provoking responses and conversations with the subjects (Carta 2015;. From the phenomenological view, "the camera enjoys special privilege because it marks its perceptive competence in the existential performance of materially embodied perception…it makes its presence to the world (and to us) sensible through its materialized activity of looking and moving in relation to what it perceives" through the camera-person (Sobchack 1992: 209).…”

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Bodily Connections Between Yielding and Knowing in Anthropological Filmmaking and Internal Martial Arts

Vávrová¹

2021

anthrovision

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Daniela is currently Adjunct Research Fellow, a founder of ALTAR group at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, and curator in the Cairns Museum, Far North Queensland. Along with her interest in different cultures, she explores the relationship between anthropology and visual communication, between written accounts, photography and anthropological filmmaking. Since 2005 her field site has been situated in Papua New Guinea exploring how people shape and are shaped by their social and cultural environment through their sensory experiences. She also holds a black belt in Nexus Combined Martial Arts. https://danielavavrova.net

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“…While some might consider the video camera an invasive and contrived medium, its use is always welcomed and encouraged by my interlocuters in the field. As well as being a medium for noticing, filming itself performs new interests (Carta, 2015; Feld and Ricci, 2015). Contrary to the time‐worn tropes of the ‘primitive gaze’ or ‘salvage ethnography’, this is not because my interlocuters want their practices recorded for the sake of exoticised curiosity or posterity, but because of a desire to share these traditions outside of their social world 2 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%