One Second Ethnography

Shot and edited on iPhone, this video explores different facets of my field research on the role of the Amazonian Quichua/Kichwa media industry in Napo, Ecuador in maintaining linguistic and cultural vitality.

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Shot and edited on iPhone during field research between 2015-2017, "One Second Ethnography" is an experiment in multimodal ethnographic practice. Drawn from a much larger archive of footage, these short videos originally enriched my field note practices, serving as a form of audiovisual jottings. The edited footage, meanwhile, provides a readily accessible introduction to the ethnographic narrative of my research, moving between sites of media production and reception, as well as into spaces of daily life in the Ecuadorian Amazon.