#100hardtruths

#16: practice strategic contemplation

Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist filmmaking” represented in Cámara Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition by Alexandra Hidalgo. The principles she elaborates point to one ethical media tradition that contemplates and thereby unmakes the frameworks that support fake news—truth/fiction, power and ownership within mediamaking and consumption—by engaging media logics outside of capital, including diversity, inter-dependence, mentorship, contemplation, and a primary commitment to social justice.
Contemplate Some More:

To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

PRACTICE STRATEGIC CONTEMPLATION

Hear Alexandra Hidalgo read this poetic response:

Alexandra Hidalgo reads and responds to "Practice Strategic Contemplation" 
 

See Alex Juhasz respond in Podcast form to hardtruth #16:

"Practice Strategic Contemplation"

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