John was an illiterate teenager in the 1970's, when he first went to work underground in the South African mines. -- Occidente (2014 ; 15 min.) Then in 2014, history was made: Te Urewera, Tuhoe's ancestral homelands, were returned, the New Zealand government gave an official apology, and the Tuhoe people built the first ever "Living Building" in Aotearoa. The focus is on John, a church minister and a leading village elder, trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. A delicate weave. Through a close portrait of a mother and her son, we gain a new insight into how Boko Haram is seen from 'below'. A town in Sicily. This delightful film shows the work of these artists, as they talk about their aspirations, intermingled with the dancing and ceremonies that marked the opening of the Arts Centre. And it's the story of courageous Syrian families raising their children in the face of violence and oppression - their past defined by terror, their future driven by hope. Ghosts of our forest. Among its terms is $60 million in reparation by the Federal government to the Senecas, the first Native American tribe to receive this acknowledgement of past wrongs. Press. The kids ride on four wheelers, hunt raccoons, and swap stories by firelight until dawn in the 'shanny' next to grandmas house. He shares his thoughts on anthropologists like Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff and Robert Gardner, and the (mis)representations they produce. Suspino. "Ethnography is the recording and analysis of a culture or society, usually based on participant-observation and resulting in a written account of a people, place or institution". Zainichi. This was in breach of the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 signed by President George Washington which had guaranteed them their lands "forever." Her memories and dreams invade her routine until the old woman's mortality fuels the daughter's guilt and loss. In Aiyes Garden is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). In this seminal essay, Rouch discusses his approach to filmmaking, and how Vertovs cin-eye newsreel along with Flahertys participatory camera approach influenced cinema-vrit. Spray, Stephanie A. Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media.More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture. A film about friendship--and the contradictory European refugee policy. -- Les mains, ngatives / in collaboration with Julien Creuzet. What is the difference between ethnographic film and documentary film? Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of carbohydrates (in the stem and underground bulb). Paani: of women and water. Archival footage, historical photographs and interviews help tell the story of two communities caught in a web of historical injustice. Ethnographic film is the visual manifestation of anthropological practice organized into a lineal and moving media. Donna Haraway: story telling for earthly survival. It was the last of Levy's films for AIAS before he returned to independent production, and remains one of the Film Unit's most widely seen works. Lai is one of the few people alive who knows the fishermans ballads intimately. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born. Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The Hinterlands, a Detroit-based performance ensemble, practice a form of ecstatic training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown -- a space both physical and imaginary. Consisting of six long take shots, it starts with a relaxed conversation in the everyday life of an emptiness of a basement. These adolescent boys have committed crimes ranging from theft to drug smuggling to stabbing. As the vast majority of such study programmes involve . For three months they and their families worked in their campus studio. Presents an insider's view of events that followed an announcement made without warning on March 13, 1978, that the Queensland state government was taking over control of the Aboriginal community of Aurukun in the north of the State, displacing the Uniting Church which had managed the Aboriginal Reserve for 70 years. This significant dreaming site for Western Arrernte people is steeped in mystery and tragedy. IPNGS produced a number of ethnographic and anthropological films, such as Chris Owen's 1983 film Tighten the Drums: Self-Decoration Among the Enga, which looks at the highly developed and symbolic forms of body art among the Enga people of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Institutionalizing the unruly: Charting a future for visual anthropology. [From publisher website]. It was shot in Botswanas Moremi village with its awesome landscapes during the dramatic national patriotic celebration for Botswanas 50th anniversary in 2016. With thirty one films Transparencies 2018 was the largest screening of visual anthropology projects in the long history of visual anthropology at Kent. Each is composed of a fixed shot, lasting between 9 and 10 minutes With every sequence, we are introduced to new passengers: an elderly man and his grandson, a trio of teenage rockers, a married couple, a mother and daughter, three wives. "A powerful documentary about the extraordinary team of doctors and activists - including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl - whose work thirty years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all. Serrano Nosso Morro (Our Mountain) September 21, 2020 Teaching Anthropology 0 Spring 2017 Featured Ethnographic Film Maker: Paloma Yez This film is about teaching visual methods and doing collaborative visual ethnography with young people from Rocinha, the largest favela and Gvea [] Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016. Ethnographic Video Online: Indigenous Voices. It is a sensorial riposte to Paudyal's idealistic depiction of the monsoon as 'joyous from start to finish,' by means of reflections upon labor, gender, and fleeting pleasure in rural Nepal. Ethnos 63.2:173201. As his relationships with the people grew he began to glimpse a hidden reality, a dark and menacing history that loomed over his host community. Kramer, Seth; Miller, Daniel A.; Newberger, Jeremy S. (2016). Sniadecki, J. P. (2018). A fictional story in which a middle-aged Aboriginal woman resents the responsibility of caring for her old white mother. In the film, Narritjin conducts a seminar for anthropology students. Balkan rhapsodies: 78 measures of war. The film describes the postcolonial space that originates from this complex political situation. For this, it is important to highlight the methodological interest in the use of the image from the researcher- photographer to the researcher-filmmaker and, as an example, the ethnographic film Les Matres fous (The Crazy Teachers), by Jean Rouch2 is analyzed. Released from the hospital, but still very ill, he hits the road with his ex-lover Irene, who acts as Frankie's nurse but refuses to offer forgiveness for his past indiscretions. Even asteroids are not alone: an intergalactic ethnography. "The role of the traditional ethnographer is changing as the perspectives and epistemologies of indigenous peoples have taken on central significance in the discipline, challenging earlier representations and implicit us versus them constructs. Sisters in law. So familiar to us from news reports, van Lancker helps us see the "jungle" anew, providing an immersive, sensory journey through the social life and survival strategies of migrants. Explains the politics of this Aboriginal movement of re-homestead old territorial lands (called "outstations"), and illustrates many of the problems faced by the returning natives. Davidson, Kief; Kos, Pedro (2017). Ginsburg, Faye. Continually looking for new ways to "see" with the camera (shooting with her feet, shoulder, and neck), Yezbick's embodied camera immerses the viewer in the collective ecstatic experience, merging the space of their ludic play with the liminal space of the cinema. This film follows the Dutch anthropologist Ton Otto, who has been adopted by a family on the island of Baluan in the South Pacific. Grossman, Alyssa; Ireland, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and; Anthropology, Granada Centre for Visual (2010). Intimate distance: A collaborative cinematic experiment where the director asked three transnational families to record their daily webcam conversations over the course of several months. Castaing-Taylor, Lucien; Paravel, Vrna; Cinma, Arrte ton; Guild, Cinema (2013). Riding on a hypnotic and relentless music, inducing trance and evoking the rhythm of working muscles, men whip and fight one another, until they die and be born again in an infinite cycle. In Nanook, Flaherty staged incidents and scenes that did not fairly represent the Inuit tribe's current way of life, but rather their "former majesty". Instead, a section of this entry is devoted to highlighting voices and perspectives from historically marginalized communitiesqueer, feminist, people of color, immigrants, indigenous filmmakers, who have been sidelined within the discipline of anthropology with its vestiges of colonialism. Through their stunning collaboration, they create a mystical, folktale-like atmosphere dense with memories, ghosts and the remains of desire. This is my face (Esta es mi cara). But through Oskouei's masterful eye and gentle offscreen questioning, we learn that they are teenagers like any others-- teasing, playful, and in the throes of first love. Smith, Sophia Hersi (2017). In 2001 Paul Wolffram, a cultural researcher, travelled to one of the most isolated and unique corners of the earth. Lloyd, Ravi Hart; Lloyd, Akio; Merrill, Heather; University College, London Anthropology Department; Ireland, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain (2016). Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. Against the will of affected families, visitors take photos and video, often posting them online. Pereira, Nilton; Diaz, Juan Diego; Morton, Eric Odwerkai; Ireland, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and (2017). A new collection of over 600 videos related to indigenous voices from publisher Alexander Street Press. Inuit are spread across extensive lands and waters, and their tiny population is faced with a disproportionate responsibility for protecting the environment. Book Description. Follows young teenage boys institutionalized into the Correctional Education Denter Shahreziba in Tehran, Iran. NGAT IS DEAD Director Christian Suhr Nielsen, Ton Otto, Stephen Dalsgaard Release 2007 Length 59 mins Location Papua New Guinea Ethnic Group Baluan Language Tok Baluan, Tok Pisin, English (English sub) Ethnographic Film (AN 240/SO 241) Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice SPRING 2018 Thursday 2000. Das, Nandita; Kothari, Shuchi; Dholakia, Rajat; Kanojia, Piyush; Shah, Naseeruddin; Goswami, Shahana; Chopra, Tisca; Rawal, Paresh; Suri, Sanjay; Yadav, Raghuvir; Navala, Dpt; Company, Percept Picture; Entertainment, Eagle Home (2009). Filmed in August, 2011, when regional tensions became so unbearable that scores of Tibetans began setting themselves on fire Exposing a world in which nature and culture, humans and animals, spirituality and politics are all interconnected, Vultures of Tibet engages audiences with the potential for oppression in the act of looking. At night, he works as an educator in a centre for asylum seekers. Mead prefers the device to be affixed to a tripod and placed in a corner like a telescope looking in, whereas Bateson advocates for a more aesthetically-driven handheld approach to form a narrative out of only the most interesting moments captured by the camera. Over sixty million Indians belong to communities imprisoned by the British as "criminals by birth.' But this is no ordinary chess and these are no ordinary players. The Seneca Nation felt that it has been badly exploited by the old terms, and now insisted on huge increases - or else it would take back the land. While principally not created on actual celluloid film any longer, the moniker of "ethnographic film" is used for productions on a variety of tape and digital mediums. It illuminates a murky impasse between families, when villagers, taking sides, tell the truth as many different truths or whisper with threats of scandal. Jackson, John, Jr. 2014. The Maribor uprisings. Step-by-step explanation. There are no up-to-date histories of ethnographic . During the first few days of their crossing from Agadez to Djanet, from Niger into Algeria, these emigrants are forced to confront the time of the desert with its stases, its brutal accelerations and its mineral inertia. A group of innocent people is charged with human trafficking and thrown into prison. After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men - Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed - are suddenly awarded legal residence. A portrait of urban space, migrant labor, and ephemeral relationships in the center of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in western China. Interweaving recollections of the past with glimpses of present-day scenes from the park, the film constructs a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people. The book provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel evolution of programming and organisational practices across the globe. In the midst of the 2002 riots between the Hindus and the Muslims in Gujarat, the lives of people from different walks of life are all tested, from a couple desperately trying to decide whether or not to stay in their home, to a woman who must deal with the guilt of sending someone away, to a group of men bent on revenge. It follows the story of the block's administrator, in his effort to mediate relationships between neighbours and maintain peace and order. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, our attention is drawn to contemporary social issues and the legacies of violent pasts. The film follows him as he speaks at community meetings. As suggested by the title, this film is 'a song' of transformational moments of space, identities and belief. It is generally associated with the American anthropologist Franz Boas[1]; he and his students aimed to record vanishing Native American cultures. Jackson 2014 insists on a more inclusive approach to evaluating ethnographic film and media for its contribution to anthropological theory and knowledge production. Though we've known for some time that the ancestors of those Indians actually built the mounds, archaeologists are still exploring their contents for a better understanding of their builders. Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. Mahasona: The great cemetery demon documentary. This film was shot entirely Tnorala - baby falling. Lydall, Jean; Strecker, Kaira (2019). When a thirteen-year-old child, who lost the greater part of his family under the Khmer Rouge, embarks on a search for their graves, whether clay or on spiritual ground, what does he find there? Then, in 1983, the Government sold the rights to his work to a dealer despite Namatjira having left his art to his wife and children. While not an outwardly politicized film, Oyate is a deeply political one; a film that represents a collection of seemingly commonplace occurrences (a conversation in the back of a truck, a group of young girls lighting off fireworks, a wedding reception) as deeply felt grasps toward purpose in an often difficult world. What I present below are extracts from that address, with reference to two ethnographic videos: Roman Postcards Silvia Gigliodoro, 21 min, 2007, Italy. The last days of winter. Salamanca is the only city in the United States that is situated entirely on land owned by Native Americans. Additional taxonomies of anthropological documentaries can also include films that are produced as a collaboration between anthropologists and filmmakers, like The Yanomam Series, and/or documentaries prominently featuring the works of established anthropologists, for instance, Sam Pollards Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (cited under Documentaries Featuring Anthropologists), Jos Padilhas Secrets of the Tribe (cited under Documentaries Featuring Anthropologists), Brett Morgens Jane (cited under Documentaries Featuring Anthropologists) and Fabrizio Terranovas Donna Haraway: Story telling for Earthly Survival (cited under Documentaries Featuring Anthropologists), and/or films that are relevant to the contemporary cultural debates on race, gender, sexuality, and social justice in anthropology including Marlon Riggss Tongues Untied (cited under Performative and Reflexive Films), Jennie Livingstons Paris is Burning (cited under Portraits of Community) and Bing Lus Minding the Gap (cited under Made for Public Television). 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