Primarily, this work focuses on five (4) filmographies that really made autoethnography what it is. These artists are Jonas Mekas, George Kuchar, Sadie Benning, Kidlat Tahimik, and Chris Marker.
Each of these different artists make some sort of major contributions to ethnography, whack is basically the betwixt of individual histories and social histories. Jonas Mekas showed that in the what was said to be his most rudimentary way: the video diaries of his life. These movies did not just show his own life but the things that are happening in his society and he also want to give an outlet for those who wanted to be outside of the commercial world. George Kuchar does a similar thing where he seems to be constantly taping everything around yet giving his own sort of 'opinions' along the way. Sadie Benning, on the other hand, takes a smaller approach to things by using a pixel vision camera; her idea was more along the line of catching the everyday, small events. Lastly, Kidlat used his form of documentary shows a more primitive life within the Philippines.
All these different things contributed towards documentaries and ethnography in their own ways, silly or not. I wonder happened to people having fun with documentaries? They are always so serious instead of silly like Kuchar's and just breaking the mold in the way its made as well as the content.
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