Original sentence: Ethnocinema, from Jean Rouch’s cine-ethnography and ethno-fictions, is an emerging practice of intercultural filmmaking being defined and extended by writer and arts educator, Anne Harris (Melbourne, Australia), and others.Originally derived from the discipline of anthropology, ethnocinema is one form of ethnographic filmmaking that prioritises mutuality, collaboration and social change.The practice's ethos claims that the role of anthropologists, and other cultural, media and educational researchers, must adapt to changing communities, transnational identities and new notions of representation for the 21st century
Edited sentence: Ethnocinema, from Jean Rouch’s cine-ethnography and ethno-fictions, is an emerging practice of intercultural filmmaking being defined and extended by writer and arts educator Anne Harris (Melbourne, Australia) and others.Film theorists Barbash and Taylor suggest cultural differences are “being ceaselessly de-formed and re-formed on your doorstep wherever you are” : while most contemporary ethnographic documentarians insist on being transparent about their place and agency in the filmmaking process, some films will emerge as records more of relationship than encounter.Originally derived from the discipline of anthropology, ethnocinema is one form of ethnographic filmmaking that prioritises mutuality, collaboration and social change, and that claims the role of anthropologists and other cultural, media and educational researchers must adapt to changing communities, transnational identities and new notions of representation for the 21st century.These films, Harris (2010) and others believe, are intrinsically ethnocinematic and highlight the liminal space of intercultural encounters in the contemporary world