Autoethnography Post Thingy

This week’s reading focused on a variety of filmmakers like Jonas Mekas, George Kuchar,  Sadie Benning, Kidlat Tahimikas and Chris Marker, whom used personal video diaries to reflect on their ethical and cultural views of the world around them. The major artists had several aspects of their metod explained such as Mekas for whom memorialization and loss are the defining characteristics of his diary films ha is diaries described as prototypical autoethnographies. Many of Kuchar’s diaries are discussed in which he makes no apparent break between experience and representation allowing him create an impression that he carries the camera everywhere with him. Benning used found footage to refers back only to herself as an ethnographic referent. Tahimik’s  Diary of a Third World Filmmaker show his belief that filmmaking, is above all a craft, through which he can be aligned with preindustrial modes of production. Marker's film Sans Soleil: The Infirmities of Time invisibility, omniscience, ubiquity, and mobility situate him as yet another belated traveler. All of these artists techniques and fills are discussed to give the reader a better understanding of Autoethnographies and their meaning.