Ethnographic filmmaking can be an effective way of discovering layers of meaning, in this instance the concept of the “multiple animal,” where a significant animal’s multiplicity is revealed through ceremony and everyday encounters. Here we combine more-than-human sociality and multispecies ethnography with observational filmmaking, in relation to my own filmmaking and the earlier work of Ian Dunlop, and in collaboration with Yolngu communities in northeastern Arnhem Land. A re-examination of Dunlop’s visual ethnography, supplemented by my more recent film work, offers new insights into Yolngu perceptions about other beings, beyond symbolic metaphors and totems.

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多重存在：澳大利亚阿纳姆地的多物种民族志电影制作

民族志电影制作可以是一种发现意义层次的有效方式，在这种情况下是“多种动物”的概念，通过仪式和日常相遇揭示了重要动物的多样性。在这里，我们将超越人类的社会性和多物种民族志与观察性电影制作相结合，与我自己的电影制作和伊恩·邓洛普的早期作品有关，并与阿纳姆地东北部的 Yolngu 社区合作。重新审视邓禄普的视觉民族志，辅以我最近的电影作品，提供了对永古人对其他生物的看法的新见解，超越了象征性的隐喻和图腾。