Catherine Russell - Autoethnography

i have read this enough to understand that this writing by ms.russell is seeming to explain different types of biography films with some of them being video diaries or diary films. such as walter benjamin trying to chronicle his childhood in berlin. like his social relations or getting to know gender roles. Jonas Mekas's diary films are perhaps the prototypical autoethnographies, he seems to have been a guy who could mix how history remembers events with the memories that he made through those events. with it having a sad and yet poetic narration in his films. George Kuchar's video diaries are extensive, voluminous, sometimes tedious, always cynical, and often amusing. from what i gathered from george's way at going at is that he wanted to shatter the barrier between a representation or having a experience of a event by taking a camera everywhere he went. he did that by making many event videos from the activities near his home and also his friends,family and colleagues around him. so to put in summary using these three guys as a example, they have taught me that through how we create video diary films, we can hope to give the viewers the same experience we got through making the films we were inspired to create.