Allright, I forgot to mention. A large part of my concern is the effectiveness of witnessing, through documentary practice. By witnessing I mean the epistemological process of learning about our world + wanted to improve it as a result. But, that doesn’t really function anymore, if it ever did. For many reasons.
One of my thoughts in my thesis proposal was to re-engage viewers into active witnessing, and therefore active participation, through “haptic address”. Wednesday’s class was really interesting because it explored a lot of ideas that I was contemplating at the end of last semester.
Nouns to Verbs – Viewer to Participant. I think that these are key concepts if we want documentary to engage the public, and enable political and response-able dialogue and action.
By the way, do you know that 97.5 million voted on American Idol last week?
alxbal Said:
on June 20, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Again, good way to adapt concepts back to your context and practice.