Week 1 - Hito Steyerl's "In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment"

 This reading highlights the idea that through your work you can present a perspective for the audience, but addresses that this is not necessarily a good thing to do. Steyerl discusses the idea of a linear perspective, an objective perspective we are all given in different forms of media. In history this was typically the view of the coloniser and by doing this it ignores the various other perspectives out there. We can see in this reading she is going through different ways of viewing and what one is best for the viewer at home. She brings up the idea of vertical viewing, but this holds connections to the idea of classism and looking up to someone 'above you'. This is where she brings up the idea of a 'free fall' view, where each viewer can have a subjective view on what they see not making any viewer feel forced into a view that the previous ways suggest. 

I can definitely take something from this for my own project, in the sense it is very important in our documentary that we don't focus on one perspective and we show a balanced argument throughout the film. Whether that be another subject speaking on the other side of things or through the questioning we do for the interviews focusing on both sides of the argument. This will help the viewers have a free fall view on things rather than a view that is forced onto them. They can make their own mind sup on all the information given. 

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