Ultrashort, low-resolution and anonymous

Author(s)

Sanderien Verstappen

Abstract

A new kind of film has come into being, meant to be viewed on a smartphone: low-resolution, ultrashort, and often anonymous. The distribution of these ultrashort videos has become a topic of concern in India, where they are discussed as a venue of promoting violence against minorities. In this experience I consider the form of the smartphone film from the perspective of an anthropological filmmaker. I share three downloadable films of forty seconds each, which I created to engage the smartphone as an alternative venue of knowledge sharing about research, during a period of temporary immersion in the world of Graphic Design.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography

Volume

3

Pages

62-80

Publication date

2020

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ultrashort-lowresolution-and-anonymous(faa66af5-9f6d-493f-a7d0-cd4ae48a8bae).html