It Made Our Eyes Get Bigger

Youth Filmmaking and Place‐Making in East London

Bibliographic Data

ID7200248
AuthorsAlicia Blum‐ro (0000-0003-2022-4725, corresponding author), Alicia Blum‐Ross
Year2013
Volume29
Issue2
Pages89-106
Publication date2013-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/var.12007
OpenAlexW1926239779
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited34

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

Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Citizen journalism · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Filmmaking · Media studies · Perception · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Artificial Intelligence

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