Of Trees and Clouds: Software-Mediated Visions in Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking Practices

By Franziska Weidle

Software-based technologies deeply saturate our everyday lives. Consequently, they also influence the ways we see and mediate the world. In fact, the ease and flexibility software provides implies a shift in control. Digital media mediates itself, turning software into a co-author. Yet, the potentials of such a co-authorship are still largely constrained by conventions stemming from the need to run strips of celluloid through a projector. This book demonstrates how software can retrain filmmakers' visions of the world – from branching trees to the shifting contours of clouds. It does so by ethnographically studying one particular technology, the Korsakow System. The result is a methodology for interrogating established software regimes; a task increasingly in need of anthropological attention.

• Language: English
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Release date: May 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9783847011309

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