My idea of documentary it goes along with what Nichols
expresses about the idea of constructing national identity. I believed that
this idea build a better understanding of community in humanity. With almost
every piece that I watched from the Observational to Documentary and the Gospel
my desire of getting involved with community or a sense of belonging increased.
Nichols Explained this term with these words,
“The construction of national identities involves the
construction of a sense of community. “Community” invokes feelings of common
purpose and mutual respect, of reciprocal relationships closer to family ties
than contractual obligation. Shared values and beliefs are vital to a sense of
community, whereas contractual relationship can be carried out despite
differences of value and belief. A
sense of community often seems like an “organic” quality that binds people
together when they share a tradition, culture, or common goal. As such it may
seem far removed from issues of ideology, where competing beliefs struggle to
win our hearts and minds.”
This means that the sense of belonging somewhere is more
powerful than any other rational feelings, it is intrinsic in us. While reading Nichols thought I also
think that this idea of community can come from the inside and the outside. An
autobiographical experience can be a valuable as an observational piece refers
to one topic. Both to me are valid and deserved a certain kind of
exposition. Because people
watching this are also going to have an autobiographical experience and even
though they might not be recording their own experience watching a video, this
can be create a great impact. In short, I believe that my idea of documentary
is a recreation of something that can help to create a sort of need of
community, and at the same time is that experience watching the one that
position us being in the outside, and at the same time having a personal
experience with the subject and making our own idea of this like an
autobiographical mode.
[My documentary has some flaws on editing and maybe
narrative. I believe there is an idea that I wanted to point out and even
though aesthetically is not the most amusing, it still works for the purpose of
creating an idea of documentary. ]
In my piece I evolve to an essayistic mode that could use
more that one mode to express one idea.
It is the case of the greening Cat in which one topic is presented and
there is some meander during the film that would eventually lead us to a
greater conclusion of a determined topic. I wanted to talk with an
autobiographical narrator, the experience that I’m having here in the United
States. The earthquake is a
metaphor that helped me understand better the value of the community I left in
Chile. The feeling of suddenly having no roots and nostalgia about a nation. It
took only 3 minutes to have the feeling that I might have lost everything, and
that the place I was by that time, it was only temporary. There is a link with
my story to all immigrants or people who live outside their own country, it can
be for a couple of years or for decades. There is this nostalgia and
idealization of what is left and the eternal desire of coming back to a land
that saw us depart. In the Fox reading he said that when “autobiographical mode
is successful, the use of self serves as an access point to a political and
historical questions of a larger social relevance.” Even though I might agree
with this statement, I still think that using more than one mode can be very useful to provoke in an
audience to ask themselves political and historical questions with social
relevance.
Is for that reason that I also include myself in this film,
just reflecting about my experience from the outside, and my friend’s
experience from the inside. To
make is more essayistic I thought that both point of views are equally
valid. At the same time I realize
I really small interview to my friend in a participatory style in which I was
engage with the topic as director and also as someone from that country. And finally
the Performative mode helped me to inspired and to explained a concept that
putting in another way I think It wouldn’t be as powerful as watching this
Chilean cowboy dancing to the flag. This represent immigrant who get to a point
in which connecting with their roots is essential. Also, is part of building
our own little world to make us feel a bit closer to our cultures and believes
and most importantly to our community.
By the end of this work I come back again with my own
thought and reflections about the impact that had in me this whole
experience. I don’t think I’m formulating
only one way to go from my own opinion, but I wanted to inspired some
reflection about where is our community and what are we doing to preserve that
in our lives.
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