United Kingdom by Martin Parr
Ben Russell‘s film of fans at a Lightning Strike concert Black and White Trypps Number 3.
Ben Russell says that the film was directly influenced by Jean Rouch – “I was trying to imagine what a corollary within my own culture could be to the Hauka of Les Maîtres fous.”
“The notion that any sort of representation could err on the side of objectivity has always seemed especially suspect to me. Since a fairly exciting toss-up in the 60s and 70s (involving such characters as Rouch, Asch, and Gardner), ethnography seems to have resolved its problems of representation by declaring its allegiance to science, and not art. This makes for a pretty easy target, and since I’m generally more interested in art than science, I’d rather keep working on finding new ways to deal with understanding and not-understanding the world. Knowledge seems much too contingent on context to hope for much else.”