Somatics Toolkit

A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers

Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Dancing with the camera

Ben Spatz

By Claire Loussouarn

In this audio file you will be guided to explore different ways of moving with a video camera and you will be invited to let go of preconceptions of how one should move with a camera or what is the appropriate posture to film. The aim is to learn to trust and listen to your body and not only your eyes when filming.

 

Further Reading

Loussouarn, C. 2017. Dancing with Nature Off the Leash. In von Zinnenburg, K. (ed.) Botanical Drift: Economic Botany and its Plant Protagonist, Berlin: Sternberg Press.

Into the Hinterlands (2015) by Julia Yezbick. Film from the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard, see trailer: http://www.intothehinterlands.com/?page_id=5.