Perception, awareness, and film practice: A natural history of the "Doris Film (original) (raw)

This chapter takes a close look at the film at the center of the influential interaction research project the Natural History of an Interview. The film, commonly known under the alias of its main character "Doris", was made in May 1956 by the anthropologist and cybernetician Gregory Bateson and the cinematographer David Myers. It was subsequently studied in detail by an interdisciplinary group of psychiatrists, linguists, and anthropologists brought together by the psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Tracing the film's production history and analyzing its cinematic techniques, this chapter considers the film's integration into emerging research procedures, documentary film practices, and experimental film discourse. It is argued that the film formed a transitional object, marking a turning point in approaches to research filming, but also a critical intersection bet...

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Perception, awareness, and film practice: A natural history of the "Doris Film (original) (raw)

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