The Influence Of Ethical Lens In Documentary Films

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Question 1: Drawing on three (3) articles from three different weeks in the course, build a lens through which you can analyze Indigenous film in the future. (pool of articles to draw from; Raheja; Gianetti and Leach; Nichols; Ruby; Lewis; Todd; Hladki; Gilroy; and, Kalafatic. Give your framework/lens a name.

The course, Indigenous cinema: decolonizing the screen, helped me build a decolonial ethical lens to analyze Indigenous films in the future, as this is key to understand how the Indigenous people live. The lens was influenced by the articles by Bill Nichols, Jay Ruby, and Lewis Randolph who have different ethical ways of analyzing a film without removing the original context of the story. A decolonial ethical approach is a better way to analyze the film because it uses ethics that culturally appropriates the Indigenous community. …show more content…
This is through the factors explained in Nichols’s article, What Gives Documentary Films a Voice of Their Own. He talks about the ethical way to present true stories of the Indigenous community in documentary films. The article states that filmmakers have to identify the main scope without interfering with the morality of the message. Many documentary films focus on the people as directors want to send the message through the voice of Indigenous people. Instead of having the main speaker as a narrator within the film, the dialogue occurs off-screen as this allows the attention to be drawn towards the people in the film rather than the narrator. In similar, a film can be handled through decolonial ethics as this lets the audience understand the method of ethics without the judgement of colonial
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