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Journal article
Dogs and foxes; filmmaking to wild the domestic and domesticate the wild
Media Practice and Education, Vol.25(3), pp.270-285
2024
Abstract
In this co-written article creative practice researchers Christine Rogers (CR) and Liz Burke (LB) explicate their reasons for, processes, and outcomes of filming animals. Christine filmed the wild foxes who inhabited her Belfast garden. She set up a wildlife camera, gaining an up-close encounter with these shy strangers, and hoping through this, to create a sense of belonging for herself, a stranger to Northern Ireland. Liz filmed her two whippets, Agnes and then Zelda, to uncover the mysterious connections in the deep relationships between herself and her dogs. Both understand the ethical dilemmas of such filming and seek to make sense of this. Both adhere to Donna Haraway’s call to enter into a complex dance with the other. Christine cedes control of the shooting and with her decolonising ethos she explores the tricky idea of reciprocity. Liz chooses to cede control in the editing as she works with a complexity-generating programme Korsakow. For Christine, belonging is created, and it becomes clear that she must remain a stranger to the foxes, no matter her desire for an intimate connection. Her desire for reciprocity also remains unmet. For Liz, belonging is not so much created as revealed by the strength of the connection between herself and her dogs.
Details
- Title
- Dogs and foxes; filmmaking to wild the domestic and domesticate the wild
- Authors
- Christine Rogers (Corresponding Author) - Queen's University BelfastLiz Burke (Author) - Swinburne University of Technology
- Publication details
- Media Practice and Education, Vol.25(3), pp.270-285
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/25741136.2023.2301637
- ISSN
- 2574-1144; 2574-1136
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99994398802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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