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可以以什么方式调解对康沃尔传统工作方式的人种学研究，并渴望广泛传播关于地区化物质文化的新视角？我的目标是确定康沃尔的三种以陆地为基础的生计，并通过实验性纪录片的媒介，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长篇实验纪录片，弥合研究、教育和娱乐之间的差距。这部电影是一部数字视听文件，将通过电影重新设想与康沃尔景观有关的文化身份，鼓励社会广泛的批判性话语。我对自我民族志作为一种质的研究策略很感兴趣，寻求调查和反思个人经历，以便理解和联系更广泛的社会和文化认同。作为一名制作实验性纪录片的创意电影制作人，我自己在一个项目中的经历是我如何理解正在被发现的东西的核心。将电影作为研究方法和成果，允许随着我的视听过程发展到公共领域，一个关键的创作过程得到发展。对文化景观的探索，迷失和重新联系，与我自己的身份相关--我是一个有着康沃尔血统的人，他的祖父是一名农民。我的方法将从追踪花岗岩项目(2017)的主题展开，这是一次跨学科的协作实地考察，我作为研究员和电影制作人都被委托参加。虽然我的大部分以博士实践为基础的研究将独立进行，但我也被邀请参加即将到来的一个名为《精心制作的地质学》的项目--这是一个跨学科研究项目，“将研究地质物质如何影响、维持或破坏技能的流动和个人的生计。”(Paton 2018)。

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).