The UCHV Film Forum is to cultivate educational connections with award-winning filmmakers in workshops on campus or – lately – via Zoom. The Film Forum’s latest friend, Lynette Wallworth will meet us via Zoom on more than one occasion throughout the festival.
Wallworth’s choice to use the new VR technology for the making of Awavena and Collisions allows her to relate the stories of indigenous people without the distortions of a dominant (colonial) perspective inherent in the director’s gaze when comes through the traditional camera. Wallworth’s immersive filmmaking subverts any fixed privileged perspective or hierarchical directions and challenges one to shift into multiple and changing viewpoints as opposed to a single dominating one. Being immersed in an artfully crafted multi-perspectival film can be a therapeutic exercise of letting go of egocentrism. Moreover, being immersed in the cinematic world of Coral is an exercise in letting go of anthropocentrism. Human exist
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