Visible Evidence: Documentary Film and Data Visualization

In a mediated and datafied world, how can anthropologists use documentary film and data visualization to engage and convey lived experiences as well as to reveal and make sense of wide-ranging complexities? We pursue this dual question through critical readings and weekly hands-on workshops on documentary styles, shooting, and editing and on data collection, visualization, and mapping. In a final project, we push our initial question about visual evidence further by experimenting with methods for bringing together video and data into a single frame in an ethnography around a selected topic.