The space between the filmmaker and the subject – the ethical encounter'

TY - JOUR

T1 - The space between the filmmaker and the subject – the ethical encounter'

AU - Colusso, Enrica

PY - 2017/7/6

Y1 - 2017/7/6

N2 - Through the extended analysis of my documentary filmABC Colombia, (86min. 2007) the article discusses the premises of my way of seeing- a filmmaking practice conceived as a cognitive and relational process - and explores the space between the filmmaker and the subject, looking in particular at the centrality of the camera, as a catalyst and a conduit. Addressing notions of proximity and the encounterbetween the filmmaker and the subject, the articlecritically engages with a notion central to my practice, that of the ethical encounter - the face-to-face with the film subject - addressed through an engagement with Emmanuel Levinas’ phenomenology of the other andthe perspective of moral philosophy. What lessons can be learned for the construction of the subject in documentary filmmaking? The article also retraces man’s relationship with the camera from its inception via Rouch’s seminal text ‘Camera and Man’, further articulating the camera’s crucial role within a certain tradition of participatory and self-reflexive ethnographic filmmaking, which has been very influential to my film practice.© 2017, published by Taylor & Francis. The attached document (embargoed until 06/01/2019) is an author produced version of a paper, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2017.1342072. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - Through the extended analysis of my documentary filmABC Colombia, (86min. 2007) the article discusses the premises of my way of seeing- a filmmaking practice conceived as a cognitive and relational process - and explores the space between the filmmaker and the subject, looking in particular at the centrality of the camera, as a catalyst and a conduit. Addressing notions of proximity and the encounterbetween the filmmaker and the subject, the articlecritically engages with a notion central to my practice, that of the ethical encounter - the face-to-face with the film subject - addressed through an engagement with Emmanuel Levinas’ phenomenology of the other andthe perspective of moral philosophy. What lessons can be learned for the construction of the subject in documentary filmmaking? The article also retraces man’s relationship with the camera from its inception via Rouch’s seminal text ‘Camera and Man’, further articulating the camera’s crucial role within a certain tradition of participatory and self-reflexive ethnographic filmmaking, which has been very influential to my film practice.© 2017, published by Taylor & Francis. The attached document (embargoed until 06/01/2019) is an author produced version of a paper, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2017.1342072. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

U2 - 10.1080/17503280.2017.1342072

DO - 10.1080/17503280.2017.1342072

M3 - Article

SN - 1750-3299

JO - Studies in Documentary Film

JF - Studies in Documentary Film

ER -