For assignment 4, I would like to continue building on the idea of encountering, yet not with people. I have become intrigued with the idea of organisms, any form of life encountering, types of encountering that humans have become accustomed to not notice. Perhaps because we now live in such a built up industrial and technological world, we only notice encountering if it involves us or other humans. Especially the encountering of cars when they have an accident, or the encountering of a human encountering car, or when humans encounter other humans. However what I have come to realise is encountering is always happening in this world that we are not aware of, or subconsciously choose not to pay attention to.
In the book Screening Nature, by A. Pick and G. Narraway, I was inspired by the approach the book takes to the importance of nature within film, to pay “attention to the interdependence of the natural world and humans within it”(Pg. 5), and how different discourses come to “bear on cinema’s relation to nonhuman and nonhuman beings”.(Pg 5)
In my film for assignment 4, I want to emphasise nature eg, non human beings and live organisms encountering the natural world, in a way humans do not usually notice. This reading, Screening Nature, reiterates my stance on the importance of nature in film, and to highlight nature in films in a way that is not usually done, as usually it is humans who are constantly the forefront in films. As the reading make it clear that “it is not simply a matter of claiming that nature is central to a film but showing how film and nature commingle in culturally situated and context-specific ways.” (Pg 6).
This academic reading does relate to noticing nonfiction through media as it discusses the idea of cinema and film in general, focusing more on non human beings rather than human beings. Therefore a human audience can notice more about their nonfiction through watching nonhuman beings on film, hence for my video I would like to use the idea from the reading, which is filming non human beings in my video.