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Some of the ways adults might interact with a child filmmaker are evi denced in Aayan's portrait of pizza making for tourists in Ladakh. The camera has given Aayan licence to get almost into the pizzas he so obvi ously adores. This allows us, as viewers, to build a quite comprehensive

2 Experiential Empiricism and Children's Films and almost physical understanding of the pizzas, the pizza makers and how pizzas are made in this restaurant (Fig. 2.3). Petheram (2014) notices that adults react in various ways to being

filmed by a child. Some ignore the camera and the child; others see it as an unconcerning game or, in some cases, as a school project probably worth tolerating. A few adults scem a little disconcerted by the config dent child-with-camera. Some adults cannot resist a comment. Aayan's film suggests that the camera gives the child some additional author ity to be close to a scene where usually their presence would be seen as interfering and a nuisance.