Discussion around first person filmmaking – whether it’s necessarily a reflective, diaristic form, or whether it can be subjective essay filmmaking.
Impossible to do in-camera editing with file-based video devices as each clip is an island until dropped into a timeline. Discussion about film cameras being able to collect fragments of time onto a filmstrip.
Mentioned Charney “not just voyeurism, but voyeurism of loss, corpses on parade.” Photography has a medusa stare, instantly turning its subjects to stone. Film has the ability to create the undead. “Flat Death, is taken from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida which considers the photograph as a fixed record of a moment in time.”
Discussion around performance, and filming. Mentioned Bruzzi’s assertion that documentary is a performative practice, and not just where that’s overt e.g. Nick Broomfield.
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