Abstract
In this chapter Hughes identifies Andrew Kötting’s collaborative film Mapping Perception (1998–2002) as an innovative experimental documentary about disability that is still worth viewing today. She develops an interpretation of the film that focuses on the performance of Andrew Kötting’s daughter Eden, who was diagnosed with Joubert syndrome as a baby. The collaboration between the scientists and the artistically gifted Kötting family is viewed as the kind of investigation into dis/ability proposed by Michael Schillmeier in his book Rethinking Disability. The complex manipulation of the aesthetics of filmmaking becomes meaningful through the representation of Eden reflecting on her own life, her articulation of the words that describe her condition and her own agency as a disabled person responding to the demands of the filming process.
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Notes
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The film was commissioned by the producer Giles Lane for his company Proboscis. Several scientists were involved, but the project from this point of view was led by the neurophysiologist and specialist in visualisation techniques Professor Mark Lythgoe.
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The film is available at: https://vimeo.com/31696203 (accessed 20 March 2017).
Information about the production company and the research project is available at: http://proboscis.org.uk/mappingperception (accessed 20 March 2017).
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Filmography
Chronique d’un été (1960). Directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. France: Argos Films.
The Garden (1990). Directed by Derek Jarman. UK: Basilisk Communications.
Mapping Perception (2002). Directed by Andrew Kötting. UK: Proboscis.
Unsere Afrikareise (1966). Directed by Peter Kubelka. Austria: Light Cone.
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Hughes, H. (2017). On Andrew Kötting’s Mapping Perception . In: Brylla, C., Hughes, H. (eds) Documentary and Disability. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59894-3_18
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