From: Brook Hinton (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 10:31:21 PST
The fictitious "reality television" film, Series 7.
There are lots of interesting and often disturbing power relationships going
on in the myriad of "citizen journalism" videos on the web, especially once
police are involved. The videos of the recent Oakland Bart Police shooting
also come to mind (I can't remember if the policewoman demanding the camera
from the woman as the bart train doors close is audible on the tape or not).
There's also the power question implicit in experimental work using street
photography and observational film/video where the subjects do not know (or
sometimes come to know) they are being filmed. This is an area I work in
from time to time but there are probably hundreds examples in works of more
import. Immediately coming to mind: on the subtle side, Ernie Gehr's
"City"; on the decidedly unsubtle side, Jon Jost's "London Brief" which
includes a striking sequence of a woman on a train who becomes aware over a
period of several minutes that Jost is filming her, among many other
relevant scenes.
Brook Hinton
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shelly Silver" <email suppressed>
>> To: <email suppressed>
>> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:48 AM
>> Subject: films/videos dealing with power
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>> dear all:
>> i'm putting together several classes that deal with power - different
>> varieties of power relations between those filmed and those doing the
>> filming. this could be extreme (or less extreme) interactions where
>> the filmmaker/cameraperson has power (most typical) or where it's
>> firmly in the hands of the people being filmed. This power can come
>> through the presence of the camera, through verbal interaction, or
>> anything else.
>>
>> I'm most interested in those cases which would make the audience feel
>> uneasy/queasy watching.
>>
>> suggestions?
>>
>> best!
>> shelly
>>
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