ABSTRACT
More specifically contributors discuss with precision and depth Indigenous community development, film festivals, filming with drones, filming landscapes, documentary hybrids, dimensions of sound, interactive documentaries, collaborative post-production, observational cinema, filming the Other, aesthetics, and multi-modality. In the world according to Rouch, story is prior to theory. That is not to say that theories are not useful and important. They are. It is to say that in the world of science, theories—given the instabilities of scientific truths—have short shelf lives. It is a very partial list of “classic” and “not so classic” anthropological theories that burned brightly at first, dimmed, and eventually faded away into the academic sunset: functionalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, ethno-science, ethnographic semantics, cultural materialism, the postmodern turn, the ontological turn, and post-humanism. No matter the sophistication of technical practice or philosophical nuance this deceptively simple principle sets the foundation for present and future visual ethnography.
