Catalin Brylla, Friday 14th February 2014, 10.30am-12pm, Goldsmiths, MRB Screen 3
The objective of this practice-based research project is to explore methodologies that facilitate the mediation of subjectivity through documentary film. Wayne (2008) identifies three essential functions of documentary practice: research practice, critical practice and creative practice. According to these, my proposed methodology suggests three different stages of mediation for the filmmaking process: mediation in a critical context, mediation of the encounter, and mediation through film form. For each stage I use cross-disciplinary methods, based on representation, anthropology and audience reception.
My case study looks at the representation of blind characters, and how these can bypass existing stereotypes that stigmatise blind people as “the other”. I focus specifically on embodied experience through filming interactions with spaces and objects.
The objective of this practice-based research project is to explore methodologies that facilitate the mediation of subjectivity through documentary film. Wayne (2008) identifies three essential functions of documentary practice: research practice, critical practice and creative practice. According to these, my proposed methodology suggests three different stages of mediation for the filmmaking process: mediation in a critical context, mediation of the encounter, and mediation through film form. For each stage I use cross-disciplinary methods, based on representation, anthropology and audience reception.
My case study looks at the representation of blind characters, and how these can bypass existing stereotypes that stigmatise blind people as “the other”. I focus specifically on embodied experience through filming interactions with spaces and objects.
© Catalin Brylla
