ENV100H1 Study Guide - Global Warming, Dirty Politics
15 Nov 2013
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(jennifer"s film) watermark human relationship w/water; how we impact water. Bill mciven (?-check name) different documentary: political, more verbal than individualistic. Excites people to fight against polluting for climate change. Creating images--swirl of ambiance around water that operates on many different levels; non-didactic. Contextual approach (also non-didactic)--not reductive to simplify things. Tried to take philosophical questions (epistemological, metaphysical) put into arena with more emotional power than lectural argument. All films address unanswerable questions in some way. Creating space to think about questions allows viewers to expand/shift consciousness about something. Hillbilly stereotype in us photographer documents lives/culture of poor in mountains and critiqued about his portrayal poor people aren"t stupid . A film documents this situation and issue. Edward pertinski (?-check name) - ambiguity is source of power in his work. Viewer has chance to reflect & shift consciousness. Images scenes of places surrounding environmental issues. Seduced by beauty of ambiguous photographs turned out to be images of garbage.
