The Risk of Nature: Accident and Repetition in Recordings of Natural Disasters

Authors

  • Felipe da Silva Polydoro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2014.90204

Keywords:

Anonymous recording, amateur videos, analysis of image.

Abstract

Anonymous video recordings are important visual documents in the depiction and constitution of the visual memory of recent natural disasters. Taken alone, these images acquire a dual quality: the documentary objectivity of the fact’s reproduction and the sensorial subjectivity of an unstable camera-eye. Witnesses of the outbreak of a natural event, they carry within themselves the uniqueness of chance, an effect that is strengthened by the recording of an event determined by natural causes, thus beyond the control of the person behind the camera. When thought together, these videos make up an endless and repetitive database of documentary evidence regarding a particular event.

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Author Biography

  • Felipe da Silva Polydoro

    Doutorando no Programa de Meios e Processos Audiovisuais da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA/USP). É mestre em Comunicação Social pela PUCRS. E-mail: felipepolydoro@gmail.com

Published

2014-12-18

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Section

DOSSIÊ

How to Cite

The Risk of Nature: Accident and Repetition in Recordings of Natural Disasters. (2014). Novos Olhares, 3(2), 70-77. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2014.90204