Jean Rouch, Ethnofiction and Visual Methods Ian Gilhespy - FSJCA

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Jean Rouch, Ethnofiction and Visual Methods Ian Gilhespy - FSJCA Introduction The collection and use of visual evidence is widespread in a wide range of academic and professional activities. The poster explores the similarities and differences of a range of related phenomena: realism, documentary and ethnography. The status of the ‘realism effect’ is evaluated . The creative treatment of the representation of reality in the documentary tradition is highlighted. Documentary and the ‘Realism Effect’ Documentary film belongs to a discourse that claims to describe the real and to offer insights into the truth. Winston (2008, p.9) argues that there has been a long public acceptance of the form which rests too easily on an unproblematic acceptance of the mimesis of cinematic forms or: The documentary tradition of film-making also rests particularly strongly on allowing viewers an insight into the ‘real’ whilst disguising the editorial and production processes involved in their creation, as a kind of cinematic objectivity. (Gilhespy and Harris, 2010, p.109) The assumptions made about documentary film bear a strong resemblance to the claims made in academic discourse that, by using certain methods in a rigorous and self-critical manner, it is possible to make claims about the superiority of the knowledge produced. Specifically, there is the assumption that documentary film offers accounts of ‘the real’ in which are strongly contrasted to fictional cinema. Ethnographic film And yet, the argument may be developed that documentary film actually embraces the categories of fact and fiction, of entertainment and knowledge as documentaries employ many of the methods and conceits of realism: Loizos (1993, p.5) points out that documentary film as well as ethnographic film has come under a shared criticism: that documentaries share with fiction film the use of narrative suspense and closure and continuity editing. Also, ethnographic film tends to have a focus on individuals, a focus that may lead to identification by the viewer but one that disguises the inability to depict structures like land ownership systems, for example, confirming Woodiwiss’s view that ‘what is socially visible is not necessarily what is sociologically important ‘( 2001, ix). Breaking with the ‘Realism Effect – Rouch and Ethnofiction The films of Jean Rouch broke with the cinema(s) of reality with a claim to objectivity. He realised that the camera always has an active effect on the characters, and saw this in a positive sense, for example showing characters becoming quite different before and after particular events like a religious ritual (as in Les Maitres Fous). Rouch wanted to break with dominant conceptions, breaking with the conventions between film maker and characters, as well as the ‘colonial’ problem of filming the other. His techniques included allowing ‘characters’ to explain and perform as themselves and to be filmed discussing their own representation in a post-script in the film, methods that have been picked up by practitioners of ethnomimesis. References Gilhespy, I. and Harris, D. (2010) ‘Researching Visual Culture: Approaches for the Understanding of Leisure and Tourism Experiences’ in Morgan, M, Lugois, P. And Brent Ritchie, J.R. (eds) The Experiences of Tourism and Leisure: Consumer and Managerial Perspectives, Bristol: Channel View Publications Loizos, P. (1993) Innovation in Ethnographic Film. From Innocence to Self-consciousness 1955-1985. M.U.P.: Manchester Winston, B. (2008) Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan (on behalf of the British Film Institute): Basingstoke Woodiwiss, A. (2001) The Visual in Social Theory, London : The Athlone Press Iamges available under Creative Commons Licence