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“It Made Our Eyes Get Bigger”: Youth Filmmaking and Place‐Making in East London
Author(s) -
BlumRoss Alicia
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12007
Subject(s) - filmmaking , affordance , embodied cognition , citizen journalism , visual arts , space (punctuation) , perception , sociology , aesthetics , ethnography , media studies , psychology , art , political science , computer science , anthropology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , law , movie theater , operating system
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in L ondon, this article describes how participatory youth filmmaking projects act as a deliberate intervention into young people's experiences of place and space. I propose that filmmaking can be understood as a means for young people to reconstruct and reimagine both familiar and unfamiliar spaces by utilizing the specific sensorial affordances of filmmaking. Acknowledging that producing a film is not only a technical but also a social, creative, and embodied process, I discuss how filmmaking mediates young people's experiences and invites them to experience a heightened perceptual attention to their surroundings by creating new forms of “sensing place.”