VIEWFINDERS

Visit Project

Cammaer is a filmmaker, curator and scholar. Her research focuses on the revival of microcinema, notably how current consumer friendly technology and mobile devices challenge the expectations and definitions of documentary film. Her other documentary research interests include personal essay films, archival films, home movies, travel films, ecocinema and documenting nature, landscape and climate change. She is the co-editor of Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (McGill University Press, 2014) and of Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Viewfinders is a research-creation project that looks at the impact of mobile media on travel experiences. It explores the ways in which mobile images can contribute to a new geographical awareness and offer an alternative to hegemonic forms in documentary. The project combines linear video with an interactive website and an AR app. This project is in collaboration with Max Schleser (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia). For a quick overview, see: https://vimeo.com/238341501