“It made our eyes get bigger”: youth filmmaking and place-making in East London

Blum-Ross, Alicia (2013) “It made our eyes get bigger”: youth filmmaking and place-making in East London. Visual Anthropology Review, 29 (2). pp. 89-106. ISSN 1548-7458

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Abstract

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in London, this article describes how participatory youth filmmaking projects act as a deliberate intervention into young people's experiences of place and space. I propose that filmmaking can be understood as a means for young people to reconstruct and reimagine both familiar and unfamiliar spaces by utilizing the specific sensorial affordances of filmmaking. Acknowledging that producing a film is not only a technical but also a social, creative, and embodied process, I discuss how filmmaking mediates young people's experiences and invites them to experience a heightened perceptual attention to their surroundings by creating new forms of “sensing place.”

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information:	© 2013 American Anthropological Association
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2014 13:39
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 00:29
Funders:	Economic and Social Science Research Council
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55614

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