This article plays with the format of the artist manifesto in order to propose a new understanding about the relationship between body and camera in contemporary sensory and affective documentary. The stories we tell ourselves about technology influence how we use it, the narratives we create with it, and how we produce meaning in film. Following the call to develop new perspectives in our Anthropocenic times that will allow us to narrate new stories about ourselves and our others (humans, non-humans, more-than-humans) and to the need of imagining new futures beyond capitalism; this manifesto emphasizes the importance of re-conceptualizing the understanding of the relationship we have with the mechanical body of the camera. Here, I propose to see this interaction of bodies from an animistic or symbiotic perspective, where technology is not just a disposable tool dest...

This article plays with the format of the artist manifesto in order to propose a new understanding about the relationship between body and camera in contemporary sensory and affective documentary. The stories we tell ourselves about technology influence how we use it, the narratives we create with it, and how we produce meaning in film. Following the call to develop new perspectives in our Anthropocenic times that will allow us to narrate new stories about ourselves and our others (humans, non-humans, more-than-humans) and to the need of imagining new futures beyond capitalism; this manifesto emphasizes the importance of re-conceptualizing the understanding of the relationship we have with the mechanical body of the camera. Here, I propose to see this interaction of bodies from an animistic&nbs...

This article plays with the format of the artist manifesto in order to propose a new understanding about the relationship between body and camera in contemporary sensory and affective documentary. The stories we tell ourselves about technology influence how we use it, the narratives we create with it, and how we produce meaning in film. Following the call to develop new perspectives in our Anthropocenic times that will allow us to narrate new stories about ourselves and our others (humans, non-humans, more-than-humans) and to the need of imagining new futures beyond capitalism; this manifesto emphasizes the importance of re-conceptualizing the understanding of the relationship we have with the mechanical body of the camera. Here, I propose to see this interaction of bodies from an animistic&nbs...