Breathing places: Three filmmaking investigations

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110036
Author(s):  
Christine Rogers ◽  
Catherine Gough-Brady ◽  
Marsha Berry
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Unique Path ◽  
The Common ◽  
Organic Change

Filmmakers and scholars Christine Rogers, Catherine Gough-Brady, and Marsha Berry each find a connection with place through their video work. In this article, they share their experiences of creating short videos, focusing on their insider experiences of filming and the spatial relationships between themselves and place. Although each of them began with a proposition, they filmed unscripted, allowing themselves to respond intuitively to their environment, allowing space in their practices for fluid and organic change and letting place shape what they filmed, and their final works. Christine Rogers engages with Elspeth Probyn’s idea of belonging as movement as she films Ngāi Tahu (Māori) traveling in dinghies away from her, toward islands where she, an outsider, cannot set foot. Catherine Gough-Brady finds a connection between non-representational theory and documentary film theory, uncovering a landscape that has no eye-line. Marsha Berry explores the seaside landscape, making a constellation with Rebecca Solnit’s lyrical essays about walking and place and non-representational theory as a mooring for her practice, exposing the common experience of standing still whilst looking at the blue horizon at sunset. Each filmmaker finds a unique path through the myriad of elements that make something a place.

Studies on a Calanus Patch II. The estimation of algal productive rates

1963 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Cushing
Keyword(s):  
Primary Productivity ◽  
Unit Volume ◽  
Standing Stock ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Algal Community ◽  
Division Rate ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Unit Surface ◽  
The Common ◽  
Algal Material

Algal productive rates have rarely been estimated at sea, although many estimates have been made of primary productivity as g carbon/m2/day. A distinction may be drawn between productive rate and productivity, and it is in the use of the term ‘standing stock’. The latter is the quantity of living algal material per unit volume or beneath unit surface. The productive rate is the rate at which the standing stock reproduces itself; for a given species it is of course a division rate. It is expedient to use the term ‘division rate’ for a single species, but the term ‘productive rate’ may be used for the whole algal community. The productivity is the product of standing stock and productive rate and so contains in it the very great variations of standing stock that are the common experience of all planktologists.

Accommodations

Outsiders ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Zachary Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
Vexing Problem

Accommodations are a common feature of life, but a vexing problem in civil rights law. To accommodate is to disrupt the status quo, to regard another, to recognize one’s needs and humanity. Accommodations can be a powerful thing. Even brief accommodations are an exchange of information, which become crucial experiences, as they force us to reckon with a harsh truth: The idea that all people are created equal is a legal command, not a practical description. We all have different needs and capabilities, different beliefs and wants. We accommodate not to erase these differences but to respect them. As a vehicle to realize our ambitions, and a functional means to make equality real for everyone in need of respect, accommodations are a way to bring outsiders in. As a result, accommodation is the antidote to modern discrimination. As we turn inward, as individuality becomes the common experience, accommodation is the right tool for our time. It is a means of making meaningful change.

Outrageously Real

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-76
Author(s):  
Alison James
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Visual Capture ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
The Common ◽  
French Equatorial Africa ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Nouvelle Revue Francaise

This chapter dismantles the common distinction between modernist aestheticism and documentary reference by studying André Gide’s factual writings. In his recollections of his experiences as a juror (Souvenirs de la cour d’assises, 1914) and his reports on court cases in the Nouvelle Revue Française series “Ne jugez pas” (“Judge Not,” 1930), Gide’s ostensibly impersonal organization of testimonial evidence produces a complex polyphonic construction that claims to let documents speak for themselves, while in fact articulating them within a larger discourse. In Voyage au Congo (1927) and Le Retour du Tchad (1928) Gide’s politically engaged writing on French Equatorial Africa enters into dialogue with the largely apolitical documentary film-making practices of his travelling companion Marc Allégret. Commenting on Allégret’s cinematic practices, Gide both reflects on the limitations of documentary and attempts to rival film’s visual capture of living gesture.

La naturaleza dada. Hacia una correcta hermenéutica de la naturaleza, y sus implicancias para el cuidado de la casa común

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Serani Merlo
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Know How ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Common House ◽  
Practical Field ◽  
Economics And Politics

La conciencia actual de que estamos haciendo inhabitable la “casa común” para las futuras generaciones, tiene raíces objetivas y subjetivas. Subjetivamente el hombre de la calle percibe con angustia la destrucción de algo que ya no conoce y que no sabe cómo cuidar. La modernidad, con su división entre la res extensa y la res cogitans, condujo a una disociación entre la idea de naturaleza que tiene el hombre común, y la idea docta de naturaleza. Las ontologías doctas de corte materialista o idealista hacen depender la naturaleza de la subjetividad humana, mientras que la experiencia espontánea reconoce en ella una existencia “dada”. Se proponen tres sentidos de “lo dado” que permiten hacerse cargo filosóficamente de la experiencia común. Nos parece imperativo recuperar una concepción realista de la naturaleza que permita establecer límites objetivos a la técnica y a su lógica, que tiende hoy a invadir, todo el ámbito de lo práctico, incluidas la economía y la política. ---------- The current awareness that we are making uninhabitable our “common house” for the future generations has both objective and subjective roots. Subjectively, the common man anxiously perceives the destruction of something that no longer understands and who does not know how to care. With its division among res extensa and res cogitans, modernity leads to dissociation between the common idea of nature and the academic one. The erudite materialistic or idealistic ontologies make depend “nature” from human subjectivity, while, on the contrary, with spontaneous experience we should recognize to it a “given” existence. We suggest here three meanings of the term “given” that allow us to face in a philosophical sense our common experience. It seems necessary to recover a realistic conception of nature that aims to establish objective limits to technique and its logic, which now tends to invade the entire “practical field”, including economics and politics.

Withdrawal from Sport and Schlossberg’s Model of Transitions

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek A. Swain
Keyword(s):  
Career Change ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Transitional Experience ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Over Time

The present study involved three in-depth interviews with 10 informants who had voluntarily withdrawn from hockey, horse racing, football, and racquet-ball. The personal histories of the informants were examined for diversity and commonality of experience. A synthesized description of career change experience was written as a general story, identifying a sequence of experiential units that reflect the shifts in focus within the common experience. The general story indicated that withdrawal from sport was not simply an event but a process that began soon after the athletes became engaged in their career. This study supports and extends a model proposed by Schlossberg (1984) which attempts to account for diversity in the experience of transitions. The model is considered helpful in developing an understanding of the process of a transitional experience such as retirement from sport, considering the context in which the experience takes place, the meaning it has for the individual, and how it changes over time.

Visitors to Heritage Sites

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thu Thi Trinh ◽  
Chris Ryan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Common ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Any tourist evaluation of place is partly shaped by the tourist’s own culture, and this may be even more so when the site gazed upon is representative of a different culture and/or heritage. However, this article suggests that differences of evaluations may be overemphasized if the research concentrates solely on the variable of nationality. The physical characteristics of place, the interpretation offered, and possibly other features such as the level of crowding all have a role to play. The common experience of these factors by tourists of different nationalities may create a commonality of evaluation despite differences in tourists’ cultures. The study reported here of more than 200 respondents uses textual analysis to find similarities and differences between Australian, Chinese, German, and New Zealand visitors to a Maori cultural site in New Zealand.

Understanding & Teaching Genetics Using Analogies

2013 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 664-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Woody ◽  
Ed Himelblau
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Functional Versus ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference

We present a collection of analogies that are intended to help students better understand the foreign and often nuanced vocabulary of the genetics curriculum. Why is it called the “wild type”? What is the difference between a locus, a gene, and an allele? What is the functional (versus a rule-based) distinction between dominant and recessive alleles? It is our hope that by using these analogies, teachers at all levels of the K–16 curriculum can appeal to the common experience and common sense of their students, to lay a solid foundation for mastery of genetics and, thereby, to enhance understanding of evolutionary principles.

scholarly journals Unsupervised random forest for affinity estimation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-272
Author(s):  
Yunai Yi ◽  
Diya Sun ◽  
Peixin Li ◽  
Tae-Kyun Kim ◽  
Tianmin Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Decision Trees ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Rank Deficiency ◽  
Node Splitting ◽  
The Common ◽  
Cluster Compactness ◽  
Parent Node

AbstractThis paper presents an unsupervised clustering random-forest-based metric for affinity estimation in large and high-dimensional data. The criterion used for node splitting during forest construction can handle rank-deficiency when measuring cluster compactness. The binary forest-based metric is extended to continuous metrics by exploiting both the common traversal path and the smallest shared parent node.The proposed forest-based metric efficiently estimates affinity by passing down data pairs in the forest using a limited number of decision trees. A pseudo-leaf-splitting (PLS) algorithm is introduced to account for spatial relationships, which regularizes affinity measures and overcomes inconsistent leaf assign-ments. The random-forest-based metric with PLS facilitates the establishment of consistent and point-wise correspondences. The proposed method has been applied to automatic phrase recognition using color and depth videos and point-wise correspondence. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in affinity estimation in a comparison with the state-of-the-art.

Leo Tolstoy in the documentary films

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 178-199
Author(s):  
Mikhail Stroganov
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
The Common

The article deals with the detailed research of the documentary shootings connected with Leo Tolstoy. Starting with the life chron¬icles up to works of modern documentary film directors. The question of difference between the documentary cinema and documentary files that was made by the operators-contem¬poraries of Tolstoy is set as a main problem. They fixed the last years of writer’s life. Their shootings became the basis to many docu¬mentaries made by the foregoing directors (starting from E. I. Shub to G. M. Evtushenko). The genre of the double portrait that is mostly demanded in nowadays documen¬tary cinema add the dramatic tension to the film and helps to rethink already well observed materials. Numerous aspects are summing into the common and vast review of the writer and cinema relations.

Introduction The Common Experience

2002 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Common Experience ◽  
The Common
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