Dogme Productions, with an Emphasis on the Dog: Revealing Animal Perspectives

Examining the intersection of images, animals and affect, I claim that images created by non-human animals impact us affectively and thereby upset our human-centered perspective. Specifically, I consider how GoPro videos from social media destabilize our human perspective. I analyze how digital imaging by animals disrupts our human perspective both literally and figuratively. In this process, I examine two topics: how digital images expand human perception, and how digital images provoke an affective enchantment. Videos from the animal’s perspective provide a limited view into the lifeworlds of the more-than-human world and in the process call out to human animal bodies watching on the other side of the screen. These affective encounters have the potential of sparking enchantment, connection, and healing in an ecologically wounded world