Abstract/Sumáriu:

Iha ensaiu ida-ne’e autór haree fila fali filme sira ne’ebé nia halo durante halo peskiza tinan barak nian. Nia halo reflesaun kona-ba filme nia poder atu hatutan istória ema no animál sira nian liuhusi kapta imajen, lian no emosaun ho forma diretu no kle’an. 

This is a story about the ‘arts of noticing’ more-than-human
noticing. In it I reflect on the ways in which my own practice
of ethnographic filmmaking is itself an agent of multisensory
participation. As artifice and artificial eye, there
is something both liberating and sensuous about filmmaking
practice. It heightens the performativity of participants
and their embodied rituals and allows me to enter intimate
spaces I would otherwise not encounter. In these encounters
a deep multispecies noticing takes place, although in
the first instance this is usually only by the camera. The intimacy
enabled in these artificial but sensorial encounters
can be both revealing and confronting, especially in cases
of animal sacrifice. Re-encountering footage filmed across
years of research-led endeavour, in this paper I explore the
power of film to convey these multisensory and multispecies
stories, as well as to evoke understanding and engage
the multisensory memory of the filmmaker.

Aust Journal of Anthropology: 2021;32:80–95. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12381