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Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names
Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, 21 (2024), 2; 1-14. https://doi.org/10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268
Ružić, Boris

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Ružić, B. (2024). Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names. Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, 21. (2), 1-14. doi: 10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268

Ružić, Boris. "Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names." Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, vol. 21, no. 2, 2024, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268

Ružić, Boris. "Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names." Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics 21, no. 2 (2024): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268

Ružić, B. (2024) 'Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names', Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, 21(2), pp. 1-14. doi: 10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268

Ružić B. Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names. Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics [Internet]. 2024 July 09 [cited 2025 February 26];21(2):1-14. doi: 10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268

B. Ružić, "Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names", Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 1-14, July 2024. [Online]. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:892725. [Accessed: 26 February 2025]

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Title (english)Documentaries of absence in the films Purple sea and Asmat – names
AuthorBoris Ružić
Author's institutionUniversity of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of Cultural Studies)
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies
Abstract (english)
Documentary film and essay film have historically been a potent ground for researching the relation between subjectivity and representation, or production and reception of images, and what happens in between, the forming, transforming and deforming subjectivities in the process. This paper aims to explore the practice of visualising memories and subjectivities in the form of fragmented or personal videos, focusing on two case studies – documentary films Asmat – names (2015) by Dagmawi Yimer and Purple sea (2020) by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed. The paper argues for the affective power of documentary image which is not used as a visual synecdoche of migrant issues, nor to idolise the omnipotence of visual representation. On the contrary, the films in question open a space to draw us near and distance us from the suffering at the same time. But. in the refusal to show migrants ‘literally’, they refuse to see them in the way long- distance surveillance cameras and biometric passports see them when crossing the borders. Both films, I argue, show that the ‘right to look’ at the image can be accompanied by the ‘right to act’ (through the image). This perspective stands at the heart of a visual culture that places ‘visuality’ not as a self-explanatory notion, but at the centre of analytic investigation.
Keywords (english)
Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Original scientific paper
Publication statusPublished
Peer reviewPeer review - international
Publication versionPublished version
Journal titleEthical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics
Numberingvol. 21, no. 2, pp. 1-14
p-ISSN1742-0105
e-ISSN3049-7752
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21428/0af3f4c0.874d6268
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:186:892725
Publication2024-07-09
Document URLhttps://ethicalspace.pubpub.org/pub/g87hrxfq
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