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Spy Basket: Creative Ethnography

A Creative Ethnographer, attempting to avoid the 'Observer's Paradox', decides to become invisible in his search for true and objective data. In a curious mixture of scientific observation and imagination, the filmmaker explores the creative process through a series of artistic portraits, a shopping basket with a hidden camera and a sewage canal in South East Asia.

  • Emit Snake-Beings
    Director
  • Emit Snake-Beings
    Writer
  • Creative Ethnography Network
    Producer
  • James Robinson
    Key Cast
    "Painting Artist"
  • Emit Snake-Beings
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • David Normal
    Key Cast
    "Poet + Painting Artist"
  • Stephanie Christie
    Key Cast
    "Poet + Artist"
  • Đinh Nhung
    Key Cast
    "Filmmaker"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 5, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    New Zealand
  • Country of Filming:
    Cambodia, Fiji, Georgia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Vietnam
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital FHD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Emit Snake-Beings

Dr Emit has been making films since he was 12 years old on a borrowed super 8mm camera, VHS and lately on 4k digital SLR. Directing a string of music videos, running an experimental film festival and more recently documentary making and Creative Ethnography: a space of research, collaboration and creativity.

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Director Statement

The story is never your own, it grows from something much bigger than the individual filmmaker.