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Seeing’ and ‘thinking’ have a long history of being conflated with one another. Martin Heidegger describes how in the tradition of Western metaphysics, “that which is to be grasped by the eye makes itself normative in knowing” (1977, 166). Along with Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy suggests that ocularcentric thinking – the privileging of vision – tends to objectify and silence the multiple resonances of the senses. In this thesis, I not only argue that disturbing our normative relation to the visual field can expose new ways of ‘seeing’ the body, but I also suggest it may interrupt and suppress an objectifying, mastering gaze. To examine this, I turn to my filmmaking practice, typically considered a visual medium, to consider film’s potential to activate modes of seeing the body that exceed the visual.
https://doi.org/10.33234/SSR.16.9