Saturday, October 12, 2013

Expression (with arctic examples)


This Arctic Life from Kieran O on Vimeo.

Collecting or making data? Actual events or representations? In whose words? With words? With gestures? Who is doing the interview? Is it a one way street or a two way street?

Images play an important part in expressing ideas and feelings, they play an important part in qualitative inquiry. So does voice. Both the framing of the expression and the actual sound of one's own voice. My son put together a multi-media piece to express the texture of Evie Onalik's life. He was the eye behind the camera, the photo editor, the researcher. It is about one part of Evie's story. It is literally her voice you hear narrating. Check it out here.

Collecting or making data? Actual events or representations? In whose words? With words? With gestures? Who is doing the interview? Is it a one way street or a two way street? Again and again, over and over, the questions have to be asked!

Another film that plays with some of these questions is the award winning 2003 Norwegian film, directed by Bent Hamer, Kitchen Stories. See the trailer here.

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