The J-Spot

The J-Spot is a meditation on the volunteer experience at the No Mind festival in the intentional community of Ängsbacka, Sweden. Volunteers are key to the success of the week- long summer festival that attracts close to a thousand participants every year to many workshops and events celebrating personal growth. This experimental and collaborative documentary embraces the camera’s role in co-creating a shared visual anthropology. One cinematographic obstruction frames the desire for personal growth from a position of relative fixity. Most filming was from or featured The J Spot, the convivial central smoothie bar. The documentary aims to reconcile the divergent ethnographic and ethnofiction styles of MacDougall and Rouch. It is also a video response to a previous documentary made on the festival (Three Miles North of Molkom).