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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Roy, Alastair
• Ravetz, Amanda
• Prest, Mark

Titel

Unsettling narrative(s): Film making as an anthropological lens on an artist-led project exploring LGBT+ recovery from substance use

Ist Teil von

• Anthropological notebooks, 2020-01, Vol.26 (1), p.33

Ort / Verlag

Ljublijana: Slovene Anthropological Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper explores My Recoverist Family, a film in which each of us had a different role: as an anthropological filmmaker (Amanda), the commissioner of the project and participant within it (Mark); and an audience member and critic (Ali). The film shows a group of LGBT+ people using art to explore recovery from substance use with reference to their biographies and wider social issues. The paper interrogates the interaction of visual and performing artsand storytelling in touching, articulat-ing and representing the film's main focus - the injustices of LGBT+ people. Using the idea of unsettling narrative(s), we analyse how the filmmakers privilege explo-ration over explanation, and glimpsed momentary understandings over narrative coherence, explanation, and denouement. In order to align the writing process with the filmmaking methodology (influenced by anthropologist Tim Ingold's under-standing of the creativity of undergoing), we utilised a methodological tool that Ali contributed to developing called the scenic composition. We argue that the paper's significance is both substantive and methodological: artistically metabolised narra-tives make it possible to complicate "the stories being listened for"; this, in turn, begins to dismantle the binaries around which much current addiction treatment policy and practice are constructed.