Answer to Dan's Question

When Hampe speaks of Miss Darling, he says "there was no way I could use the footage we had shot to communicate to an audience what I had seen and felt." Even if one can capture this evidence and make said person once again feel what was seen and felt, how can you guarantee that an audience will have the same experience? Is there a common ground where everyone can feel a feeling or are there certain things that may be interpreted differently?

I think that to some extent that there are some films where most people feel the same as the filmmaker. As humans learn to read other humans emotions through facial changes or body language I think this sort of stuff would come through film that is well shot and edited. Most people don't need someone to tell them that someone's upset when they are frowning, that is visual evidence. We might not all have the same personal emotional response to that evidence but I think many people are able to recognize it. This also may have to do with socialization, we associate certain visual evidences with certain events in our--society Fireworks with Fourth of July, which would not work as well in Britain. I think it is the responsibility of the filmmaker to take these things into account when considering their audience but I do not think that visual evidence can be universal, at least until we have like complete globalization.