Response : Metaphors on Vision and Auto-ethnography

Metaphors on Visions describe the Stan Brakhage’s vision in his experimental movies. His works seek to overturn the established norms and rules of visions. He calls for a method of seeing and depicting which does not answer the question “What is this?” with a simple label (e.g green grass) but rather beholds the image in its natural richness and ambiguity. It’s a different way to express himself in art that goes in a different direction of what movies do most of the time: express realistic image sequences by labeling what the viewer sees or what he knows already.

In Catherine Russell article I could understand that autoethnography is where the author uses his self-reflection and writing to explore his/her personal experience and connect this personal life and perspective to wider cultural, political and social meaning and understand. For example, in Stan Brakhage’s work he applies his method of thinking and labeling what we see. He applies his ideas, opinion and self-reflection into his work that results in his natural richness and ambiguity movies.