Abstract
In this paper I continue my research that sets out to interrogate the traces, the fragments, and the memories left in the landscape when the researcher digs in physical remnants such as maps, photographs, ruins, graveyards, old newspapers, paintings as well as in collected testimonial recordings. I expand these ideas on landscape to include the similarities between the journeys of the adventurer / cartographer and that of the filmmaker by tracing the movements of my family to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa during the 17thC from France and the Netherlands until they settled seven generations ago on the family farm where I was born. This work draws on the concept of ‘diffraction’ as a replacement for reflexivity, now considered as incomplete by academics such as Haraway and Barad as researchers take an even more embracive approach to interdisciplinary studies. The research journey covering both the filmmaking process and the uncovering of artefacts left as traces of these journeys offers an intensely personal and subjective experience as well as new maps for the traveller, the filmmaker and the potential audience.
Presenters
Lieza (Elizabeth) LouwResearch Associate, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Image, Landscape, Diaspora, Visualisation, Representation, Diffraction, Cartography, Filmmaking
