Trent Griffiths
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Framing
Fascinating example to think about animal/human relationships, and how these relationships are both felt and imagined. I think this clip clearly illustratess your point about animals undeniably having affects, but of a nature that no matter how much we na ... -
Authenticity
Daniel, really interesting tension you describe between how the personal experiences of the participants is intended to authenticate the series, yet it is instead the acknowledgement of the construction of those personal experiences (in a sense their &quo ... -
The surrendering of power
Great points Laurel and Chad- I think the destabilisation of power in moments like this is crucial to the way they are meaningful beyond their informational value. To pick up on a term used by Jean in her comment on Laurel's post about General Orders ... -
A complex beast
Tarja, I absolutely agree that there is a lot more to the emotions circulating in this moment than simply empathy with the filmmaker- as you say this is a moment charged with emotions tied to the shock of such explicit racism and the disturbing bodily thr ... -
New mapping
Laurel, I love the framework of affective mapping as a productive way to think about the orientation of this film to history and level of reflection it engages. Mapping evokes the historical (and in this film's case geographical) specificity of the s ... -
Feeling for, feeling with
Jean, your last sentence here captures really pointedly how I felt watching these sounds and images. I found it profoundly moving, and felt for as well as (strangely) felt with these women on the screen. The tension between voiceover and image, and the re ...