ABSTRACT
In creating films, authors use camera tools that are modeled after the human eye and microphones that are mechanical replicas of the ear. They focus the lens on textures, so we might give the viewer a sense of what it is like to feel, recognizing that the mind will attribute a sense of touch to a visual stimulus. The sensory verite films may reveal the context of the individuals who are in front of the camera, and in some subtle or not so subtle way, those who are behind the camera and the deeper sensory elements within that shared environment. Films can also use the interview as a form of testimony. Films in both the sensory ethnographic style and sensory verite immerse the viewer in a single place or with a group, rather than remain in the outside space of the “Other”.
