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Sensing the Night: Nocturnal Filmmaking in Guantánamo, Cuba.

Authors :
Diamanti, Eleonora
Boudreault‐Fournier, Alexandrine
Source :
Visual Anthropology Review. Fall2021, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p290-309. 20p.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

Guardians of the Night (2018) is a short‐length film set in Guantánamo, Cuba, that aims to engage with a temporal scape too long disregarded by visual anthropologists: the night. This article, written by the filmmakers, reflects on some of the challenges and opportunities offered by the night for ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, and more specifically, sound recording. We locate our work as part of a movement to recognize the night as a spatiotemporal dimension that should be explored further from a sensorial perspective and outside the diecentric focus that social sciences have established in their approaches to social and cultural phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10587187
Volume :
37
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Visual Anthropology Review
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
154442668
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12245