The Nature of Ostension

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• dc.contributor.author O'Brien, Adam
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:40Z
• dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:40Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.date.modified 2023-11-23T11:50:35Z
• dc.description.abstract The initiating comparison for this essay is between two images, or shots; one appears in Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Black Pond (2018), and shows two people looking offscreen, surrounded by dense woodland; the other is reprinted and described in Bruno Latour’s essay “Circulating Reference” (1999) and shows three scientists near a border between a savanna and a forest, looking and gesturing in different directions. Rinland and Latour share an ethnographic interest in the material and gestural minutiae of scientific engagement with the non-human world. This essay explores their common interest in pointing, and in ostension more generally, as it emerges in both case studies. Latour provides a rich and suggestive framework through which to understand Black Pond, particularly in its conception of natural-history study as a multi-stage process of mediation, made up of tools and gestures and inferences – rather than the momentary encountering or witnessing more familiar to eco-film aesthetics.
• dc.format application/pdf
• dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/412331
• dc.identifier 2604-9821
• dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2023.v11.i20.02
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62303
• dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2023, Vol. 11, Núm. 20 (2023): Cinema’s Natures: Comparative Approaches to Ecocinema, p. 10-25
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2023, Vol 11, No 20 (2023): Cinema’s Natures: Comparative Approaches to Ecocinema, p. 10-25
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2023, Vol. 11, Núm. 20 (2023): Cinema’s Natures: Comparative Approaches to Ecocinema, p. 10-25
• dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/412331/515978
• dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2023 Comparative Cinema
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en
• dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
• dc.subject.other Jessica Sarah Rinland
• dc.subject.other Bruno latour
• dc.subject.other Documentary
• dc.subject.other Pointing
• dc.subject.other Indexicality
• dc.subject.other Natural History
• dc.subject.other Ecology
• dc.subject.other Photography
• dc.title The Nature of Ostension
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion