Practitioners of ethnography and art have crossed paths multiple times
in the 20th and 21st centuries - sometimes viewing each other with
enthusiasm, sometimes suspicion. This programme consists of four films
by contemporary artists - Charlotte Prodger, Juan Downey, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Andrew Norman Wilson – that engage with ethnographic practice.
Subjects range from corporate hierarchy within Google to a sub-culture of online
trainer fetishists, from cinematic representations of cult rituals to a trip to visit the
Yanomami of Venezuela. The films share a self-reflexivity and a questioning
of documentary realism.
Workers Leaving the Googleplex - Andrew Norman Wilson, USA 2011, 12 mins
The Laughing Alligator - Juan Downey, USA 1979, 27 mins
Call of the Wild - Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, UK 2007, 13 mins
:-* - Charlotte Prodger, UK 2011, 12 mins
The same programme will be screening as a pre-festival event on Thursday 16 March 8pm
"Possession Rituals"
BEEF Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film
Brunswick Square
15-16 York Street
Bristol BS2 6NX
£4/£3
www.beefbristol.org