Empirical Art

Andy Lawrence is a filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the founding director of Filmmaking for Fieldwork. Martha-Cecilia Dietrich is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She is a co-director of Filmmaking for Fieldwork. -- .

Introduction: Crafting connections by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich and Andy Lawrence

Part I:Narrating experience
1.Bearing: Documenting the self in early motherhood. Rosie Reed Hillman
2 The screen walk method: Exploring the social lifeworlds of digital environments. Steffen Köhn ·
3 Filming pasts, presents and futures: Bringing the archive to life and seeing the archive in life. Stephen A. Linstead
4 The aesthetics of access: Filmmaking in a Balinese ‘deaf village’. Erin Moriarty

Part II: The camera as a catalyst
5 The magic of a floating stone: Ciné-play in poetic imaginaries of old age. Jón Bjarki Magnússon
6 The potentiality of form: Essayistic modes in making an ethnographic documentary. Anja Dreschke and Michaela Schäuble
7 Beyond the recording button: The role of the camera in post-war memory research. Martha-Cecilia Dietrich

Part III: At the edge of the frame
8 My lustful eye: Filmmaking, ‘empirical excess’ and the limits of being in control of one’s art. Mattijs van de Port
9 Expanding the limits: Observational and VR filmmaking with women and children in prison. Rossella Schillaci
10 The productivity in failure: Filmmaking as transformative practice. Andy Lawrence

Part IV: Taking position
11 Contesting invisibility: Stories of Indian migrant women in Japan. Megha Wadhwa
12 An international love affair at the Chinese-Russian border: A filmic event ethnography. Elena Barabantseva
13 Losing face: Complicating human subjectivity through multispecies character development. Annika Capelàn
14 The political ‘opponent’ in my lens. Christine Moderbacher
Epilogue: From experience to empirical art. David MacDougall

Index -- .