Practice Base Research

This section brings together essays that reflect on cinematography as a form of practice-based research. Rather than separating theory and practice, these contributions explore how knowledge is produced through the act of making images. Cinematographic choices like framing, light, movement, and texture are approached not only as aesthetic or technical decisions, but as situated responses to specific social, political, and material contexts. These essays draw from lived experience and critical reflection to consider how cinematography participates in broader cultural discourses, and how image-making can function as both a method of inquiry and a form of intervention.