Hi - I've heard of some documentary character portraits
of children where any child who courted the camera was automatically
ruled out. These production teams / directors were only interested in
children who had no a priori interest in the filming process.
The production team’s calculation was that if a subject wants to be
filmed, s/he is already trying to ‘sell’ some version of themselves
which could make it harder to connect with the individual’s deeper
motives or more authentic impulses away from the camera. Does anyone
have references to these films / directors?
NB this process also implies questions about ‘authenticity’
and ‘performativity’ (Bruzzi 2006) and turns on the extent to which the
camera catalyses events or reflects what unfolds in the world and has a
resonance with this enquiry, but I'm most interested in references to
the films themselves. Also, Anyone in London on May 6th & interested in
this area, could book onto this event/screening of my current film.
LINK:
06 May 2015
14:00 to 16:00, London College of Communication, Room MLG 06
Justine: Screening and Discussion
A
screening of Pratap Rughani’s award-nominated documentary exploring the
world of unspoken communication between people of different
neurologies.