Descubriendo a través de los sentidos algo más que el talking-head: el Documental como Entrevista Panestésica

Isabelle Carbonell

doi:10.18800/conexion.201801.005

Isabelle Carbonell University of California, Santa Cruz

Is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning documentary filmmaker and a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work lies at the intersection of expanded documentary, experimental ethnographic film, environmental justice, invasive species, disasters, multispecies ethnography, and the anthropocene. Her scholarship has been published in the Internet Policy Review and the Cultural Anthropology Journal. She has just launched a multilinear web-based documentary called The River Runs Red exploring questions of suffering and livability in the anthropocene on the world’s largest iron-ore tailings dam disaster in Brazil. Beyond jellyfish in Georgia, she’s also working in the world of invasive jellyfish blooms and polyps in the Adriatic Sea as a harbinger for the so-called anthropocene.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18800/conexion.201801.005

Keywords: Interview, senses, panesthetic, documentary, talking-heads

Abstract

Documentary interview methodologies are often oversimplified and undertheorized, and talking-heads, the technique most strongly associated with the documentary interview, is often perceived as the sole technique for interviewing while it is only one among many. Alternate methodologies are possible, that take into account the sensorial world, moving beyond the talking-head. Encompassing a multisensory approach not only to interview but also to the entire filmmaking process, I have developed a new method of interviewing called the panesthetic method.
Baffle Their Minds with Bullsh*t, Kerry Leigh (2013) features a talking head interview style, while in The Blooming (working title), I stay connected by a lav microphone for over 18+ hours on a boat to Wynn, my interviewee. In contrasting these two case studies, the panesthetic approach emerges as a methodological path to rethinking the documentary interview.

References

Albright, D. (2014). Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Barthes, R. (2009). The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980. Northwestern University Press.

Felman, S., & Laub, D. (2013). Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History. Routledge.

Goody, E. N. (1978). Questions and politeness: strategies in social interaction. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press Books.

Hess, S. (1981). Washington reporters. Society, 18(4), 55–66. Retrieved from https:// doi.org/10.1007/BF02701352

Honigmann, H. (2011). Heddy Honigmann: in focus. Hilversum: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid.

Lins, C. (2003). Eduardo Coutinho, Cómplice de la Realidad Filmada. In P. A. Paranaguá & J. C. Avellar (Eds.), Cine documental en América Latina (1. ed). Madrid: Cátedra

Reik, T. (1983). Listening with the Third Ear. Macmillan.

Rothman, W. (Ed.). (2009). Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch. New York: SUNY Press.

Schudson, M. (1994). Question Authority: A History of the News Interview in American Journalism, 1860s–1930s, 16. Retrieved from https://doi. org/10.1177/016344379401600403

Sobchack, V. (1992). The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from https://press. princeton.edu/titles/5045.html

Taylor, L. (1996). Iconophobia. Transition, (69), 64–88. Retrieved from https:// doi.org/10.2307/2935240 Xavier, I. (2012). Ways of Listening in a Visual Medium. New Left Review, (73), 97– 116

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Coming to Our Senses beyond the Talking-Head: the Panesthetic Documentary Interview

Abstract

References

Downloads