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The Creative Ti(d)es of : Musings on the Making of an Eco-Avant-Doc

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This chapter discusses the making of Sea-Changes, a short genre-bending experimental film that challenges existing definitions of nature docs and eco-cinema, by interpreting “construction” as assemblage and treating ecology as a mental-perceptual construct of the real. Sea-Changes was made outside of the prevailing conventions and styles of (eco-)docs by fusing rationality, contingency, and chance. The purpose of the film is not to offer a comprehensive ecological argument for saving the oceans or to explain the complex relationship humans have with water, but rather to create an experience that makes the viewer reflect on what water and being in water represents, and the immeasurable damage humans inflict on the oceans of the world. Central to the conception of this film, and for a critical understanding of it as an ecoavant-doc, is a philosophical and experimental realism that originates from the various creative strategies used to make the film.

Keywords: Archival footage ; Assemblage ; Avant-doc ; Avant-garde film ; Collage ; Eco-doc ; Ecological distress ; Ecology ; Experimental documentary film tradition ; Experimental realism ; Found footage ; Media ecologies ; Montage ; Smartphone filmmaking ; Water

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The Creative Ti(d)es of : Musings on the Making of an Eco-Avant-Doc
Intellect , 175 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387438_19
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