Landscape, loss and imagination: the potential for an experimental documentary to explore and invigorate cultural connections with the land

一份实验性的视听文件能以何种方式调解康沃尔传统工作实践的民族志研究，并渴望广泛传播关于区域化物质文化的新视角？我的目标是确定康沃尔的三种陆上生计，并通过实验纪录片的媒介，批判性地研究工作实践如何影响文化景观。我的目标是制作一部故事片长度的实验性纪录片，在研究、教育和娱乐之间架起一座桥梁。这部电影——一种数字视听文件——将通过电影重新设想与康沃尔风景有关的文化身份，鼓励社会广泛的批评话语。我对作为一种定性研究策略的汽车人种学感兴趣，寻求调查和反思个人经历，以理解和连接到更广泛的社会和文化身份。作为一名创作实验性纪录片的电影制作人，我自己在一个项目中的经历对我如何理解正在发现的东西至关重要。以电影作为研究方法和输出，可以使我的视听过程发展到公共领域，从而形成一个关键的创作过程。对文化景观、失落和重新联系的探索与我自己的身份有关——作为一个有着康沃尔血统、祖父是农民的人。我的方法将扩展到“追踪花岗岩项目”（2017）的主题，这是一个跨学科的合作实地考察，我被委托作为研究人员和电影制作人参加。虽然我的大部分基于博士实践的研究将独立进行，但我也被邀请参加一个即将到来的名为“精心制作的地质学”的项目——这是一个跨学科的研究项目，“将研究地质物质影响、维持或破坏个人技能和生计流动的方式”。(2018年Paton)。

In what ways can an experimental audio-visual document mediate ethnographic research on Cornwall's traditional working practices, and aspire to widely distribute new perspectives on regionalised material cultures? My aim is to identify three land-based livelihoods in Cornwall and, through the medium of experimental documentary film, critically examine how working practices can impact the cultural landscape. My objective is to make a feature-length experimental documentary that bridges gaps between research, education and entertainment. The film - a digital audio-visual document - would encourage a socially broad critical discourse through a filmic re-envisioning of cultural identity in relation to the Cornish landscape. I am interested in auto-ethnography as a qualitative research strategy, seeking to investigate and reflect upon personal experience in order to understand and connect to a wider social and cultural identity. As a creative filmmaker who produces experimental documentaries, my own experience within a project is central to how I make sense of what is being uncovered. Working with film as both research method and output allows for a critical creative process to develop as my audio-visual processes evolve into the public sphere. The exploration of cultural landscape, loss and reconnection, is pertinent to my own identity - as someone with Cornish heritage whose grandfather was a farmer. My methodology would expand on themes from the Tracing Granite project (2017), a collaborative interdisciplinary field trip that I was commissioned to participate on as both researcher and filmmaker. Although much of my doctoral practice-based research would be carried out independently, I have also been invited to participate on a forthcoming project titled Crafted Geologies - an interdisciplinary research project that "will examine the ways in which geological matter influences, sustains or disrupts the mobilities of skill and the livelihoods of individuals." (Paton 2018).