True colors: chromaticity, realism and technological honesty

Philip, A. I. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619 (2021) True colors: chromaticity, realism and technological honesty. Comparative Cinema, 9 (17). pp. 79-99. ISSN 2604-9821 doi: 10.31009/cc.2021.v9.i17.05

Abstract/Summary

I propose an application of agential realism to my practice as research, a film about my mother getting one tattoo covered with a new one, to investigate the material-discursive role played by the camera in determining meaning within the film image. I use my practice as a comparative case study, considering how a specific camera apparatus determines and negotiates standards of colour accuracy, and what it means to remove those colour values in post-production. I argue that the different colour processing of the same footage produces perceptible onto-epistemological difference, even while it remains indexically equivalent. Second, I will show exactly how this particular digital photosensitive technology meets the pro-filmic event to record colour, enacting agencies that reduce matter to fit a specifically programmed colour system, prior to any manipulation in post-production. The system itself draws the boundaries of accuracy it claims to achieve, with inevitable ethical implications.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/116548
Identification Number/DOI	10.31009/cc.2021.v9.i17.05
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Film, Theatre & Television
Publisher	Center for Aesthetic Research on Audiovisual Media (CINEMA)
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