A Watch and Act warning is issued by Australian fire authorities when 'An emergency threatens you'. This alert was issued on 9th February 2014 for a suburban bushfire in Fawkner, Melbourne. The video work 'Watch-n-Act' showcases a photographer exploring and documenting this post-disaster scene whilst also collecting objects uncovered by the fire. The work is exploring two points of view, one locked off video frame of the scene, the other the photographers view. This is a performance of journalism in action or what I am calling action journalism. The piece is research into an interventionist photojournalists experience depicting the post disaster scene. This work questions the shifting relationship between media representations and factuality, while also querying the amounts of data collected and how this may inspire the desire for an equivalence in meaning.The piece was first presented in exhibition Looking at Looking - Nation lookingatlooking.com, an exhibition of new video, photos and found objects by Nicholas Hansen in March 2014 and will screen in the peer reviewed Sightlines conference at RMIT University in November 2014.Cast: MutinyMediaTags: Mutiny Media, Nicholas Hansen, Watch-n-Act, experimental documentary, action journalism, experimental journalism, bushfire, Fawkner, Reservoir, Melbourne, Australia, Looking at Looking, Nation and 2014.
