Ścieżki Chrisa Watsona. Afekty i performatywna sprawczość nagrań terenowych w kinie doby katastrofy ekologicznej
Chris Watson's Tracks. Affects and Performative Agency of Field Recordings in the Cinema of Climate Disaster Era

Summary/Abstract: The author examines affective dimensions and performative agency of field recordings used in contemporary cinema. The narrative is centred around the works of Chris Watson, a specialist in the field of nature recordings, and a long-time collaborator of David Attenborough in his BBC productions. The essay juxtaposes contemporary affective theories of cinema and its soundtrack (i.a. Michel Chion, Barbara Flückiger, Caryl Flinn, Danijela Kulezic-Wilson) with discourses of field recording itself (Francisco López) and different tools of current humanities, to show how field recordings co-create cinema’s affective narrations, as well as affecting the viewer through the creation of the space of cinematic worlds. The author also analyses the functioning of field recordings within broader affective landscape of uncertainty in the age of climate disaster.

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