Engaged Anthropology

My film is an exploration of “the engaged”, those who have broken out of their day to day life to action change to the structures in which they live. I, as the film-maker, but also a participant, engage with the plight of all groups, especially the animal activist community to which I belong. Activists come in all shapes and sizes, from different backgrounds, and sometimes are the people you’d least expect.

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My last aim is to engage deeply with the audience using resonating sounds and emotive visuals to draw in the view in to each experience as more than just a flat representation but more of an experience of each event. As I participate in each collective action, I immerse the camera amongst people, as I am just one of them myself. The film acts as a showcase of activism, and I hope subliminally offers the viewer different categories in which they can feel more connect. Some may be more politically engaged, environmentally area or on the verge of going vegetarian and may feel a pull to the community that is represented to them.

If this acted as the call to action a viewer needed to find their cause, community and personal story, the film would have created a future beyond itself.