The film phenomenologically explores what it means to watch on screen people at risk and the ethical implications of such a position. The video includes a visual analysis of two experimental documentaries about migration and an original investigation in the city of Philadelphia of how temporal precarity is created on screen with no human subject.
Anat Dan
Anat Dan is a film and media scholar and video maker. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in global documentary media cultures with a focus on critical humanitarianism and human rights studies. Her dissertation, Humanism by Other Means: Global Documentary, Human Rights Cultures, and Posthumanism, examines a growing trend in contemporary global documentary filmmaking, particularly at documentary and human rights film festivals: films that depict human rights violations in the absence of a human figure. Bodies on Hold was created as a complementary piece to her dissertation.