Jackson, D., 2020.
This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father
| Output Type: | Chapter in a book |
| Publication: | Developing a Sense of Place: The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities |
| Brief Description/Editor(s): | Weedon, A., Ashley, T. |
| Publisher: | UCL Press |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781787357761 |
| URL: | www.uclpress.co.uk/products/152829 |
| Pagination: | pp. 98-115 |
| Number of Works: | 17 |
An essay on my filmmaking practice and visual methodology which takes as its starting point Annette Kuhn's premise that memory is a process, an activity, and a construct. The film attempts to mobilise her definition of memory-work as 'an active practice of remembering' by stitching together a montage of closely observed vignettes in which I ask my father to re-enact aspects of his everyday life before the camera. My intention in the film and the essay is to explore the question of how the past may be re-enacted in the present through what Kuhn calls 'performances of memory' and at the same time to find an equivalence between ways of looking in terms of visual methodology and what is actually being looked at as object: my father.