I tend to spend a long period of time immersed in the subject area of the film I'm making, developing as deep an understanding as I can of the context I'm about to enter into with a camera and crew. Along the way I've looked at Aries, Kellehear, Fenwick, Gorer, Kubler Ross and many more.
One way that I'm coming at the ethical complexities and conceptual
possibilities of the film is via some ideas gleaned from Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, Gilles Deleuze and Vivian Sobchack, particularly Levinas on alterity and
creative production.
I work in a very
improvised and ethically complicated way. For me filmmaking is an open process, a way of being with others, and also a way of
doing philosophy.
I have two
questions: How can film make utterances in terms of the unspokenness of death?
How might filmmaker and subject visually confront dying and death, so that the
outcome is perceived as morally justifiable in its gaze at what is normatively
regarded as forbidden?
What I am setting out to do is conduct extensive observational filming myself and then schedule a five day shoot in August extending the actuality I have captured into constructed and choreographed sequences.
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