Moving animals in moving imagery: the case of elephants

Jamie Lorimer Geography, Kings College London

jamie.lorimer@kcl.ac.uk

Double logic of ‘movement’• Physically through

space• Emotionally to a

different affective state

Cognitive passions: key themes

1. The vital role of affect and emotion2. The importance of the mobile body for

perception3. Representation as the circulation of material

evocations

Nonhuman charisma

• Ecological• Aesthetic• Corporeal

Nonhuman charisma

Moving imagery

Elephants on film

• Sentimentality• Disconcertion

Sentimentality

Disconcertion

Questions/comments?jamie.lorimer@kcl.ac.uk