Film list

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Andrè Singer in conversation '
Talks
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Animation 2023 60'
Special Programmes
    Animation .
Screening online 3-31 March, and at Watershed (Bristol, UK) 25 March, 17:00-18:00
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Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography '
Talks
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Arandu - Listen to the Weather 2023 '
Special Programmes
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A curated programme streaming online 3-31 March 2023. Click here to buy an online festival pass. Live in Bristol 22-25 March 2023. At ICA (London), Sunday 19 March 2023, 18:15 The aim of ARANDU -
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 2023 '
Special Programmes
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Beyond observation '
Talks
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Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film. A discussion with Paul Henley. More than just introducing the best in new ethnographic films, the RAI FILM Festival also aims to take
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David MacDougall 2023 90'
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This conversation will take place on Monday 6 March 2023 10:00 - 11:30, UK time, online. It will be live streamed here. Click here to buy a Full Festival Pass for entry to all the festival’s
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Decolonising the Archive shorts #1 70'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts .
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
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Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 73'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts .
Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
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Disability Futures 2023 '
Special Programmes
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Don’t miss the plenary session with Anneleis Kusters and Erin Moriarty: Birth of a genre: Re-framing language in deaf ethnographic film
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Engaging Media Worlds [NYU] '
Talks
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Filmmaking for Fieldwork '
Talks
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Fireball '
    Lifetime Achievement .
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Global racialisations - Q&A with directors '
Talks
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Imagine(ing) migration '
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Imagine(ing) migration. The aesthetics of borders and resistance [SOAS]. What is migration? Is this the “age of migration”? What is diaspora? What challenges do diasporic communities bring to
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Kat Cizek 2023 90'
Special Programmes
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This conversation is taking place online on Friday 10 March 2023 17:00 - 18:30, UK time, online. This event will be live streamed on https://www.facebook.com/raifilmfest Why co-create – and why
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Keynote by Faye Ginsburg '
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Indigenous Media and Archival Imaginaries This talk considers archives created by Indigenous mediamakers who, over the last three decades, have produced an astonishing array of work -- from
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Keynote by Stephanie Spray '
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Stephanie Spray, Director, Center for Visual Anthropology at USC Dornsife, Los Angeles, USA.  She is a filmmaker, phonographer, and anthropologist whose work explores and exploits the poetics of
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Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy 103'
Shorts Programme
    Shorts .
Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation
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Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) '
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Filmmaker Alastair Cole and anthropologist Magnus Course in conversation around the questions posed by their award-winning short film Muir ar n-Athreaichean (Our Fathers’ Sea). The film’s
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P01: Rethinking fieldwork '
Conference
  Convened by Maruska Svasek .
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P02a: Crisis, creativity and ethics '
Conference
  Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .
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P02b: Crisis, creativity and ethics '
Conference
  Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .
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P03: Existential crisis, exceptional fields '
Conference
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P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution '
Conference
  Convened by Christos Varvantakis Sanderien Verstappen .
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P05a: The crisis of communication '
Conference
  Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .
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P05b: The crisis of communication '
Conference
  Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .
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P06a: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '
Conference
  Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Yáñez Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .
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P06b: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '
Conference
  Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .
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P07: Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis '
Conference
  Convened by Sanderien Verstappen Mark Westmoreland .
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P08a: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '
Conference
  Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .
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P08b: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '
Conference
  Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .
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P08c: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '
Conference
  Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .
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P09: Together for Mental Health '
Conference
  Convened by Erminia Colucci .
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P10: Housing loss and insecurity '
Conference
  Convened by Caterina Sartori .
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P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity '
Conference
  Convened by José Sherwood .
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P12a: Immersive Ethnography '
Conference
  Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .
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P12b: Immersive Ethnography '
Conference
  Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .
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P13: Our pandemic lives: photographing the pandemic '
Conference
  Convened by Caroline Bennett .
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P14: Co-agitō ergo sum '
Conference
  Convened by César Enrique Giraldo Herrera .
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P15: Quality and equality in collaborative projects '
Conference
  Convened by Arjang Omrani Kris Rutten .
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P16a: Global Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .
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P16b: Global Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .
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P16c: Global Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .
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P17: Workshop: Radical inclusivity and visual ethnography '
Conference
  Convened by Mike Poltorak .
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P18: Chronotopes during crisis '
Conference
  Convened by Alastair Lomas Charlotte Hoskins Andrea Bordoli .
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P19: The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter '
Conference
  Convened by Judith Aston Shawn Sobers .
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P20: Big mouth '
Conference
  Convened by Nomi Dave Bremen Donovan .
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P21: Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology '
Conference
  Convened by Letizia Bonanno José Sherwood .
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P22: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty '
Conference
  Convened by Sandro Simon Valerie Haensch Ian M. Cook .
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P23a: Disappearing world reloaded '
Conference
  Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .
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P23b: Disappearing world reloaded '
Conference
  Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .
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P23c: Disappearing world reloaded '
Conference
  Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .
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P24: Encountering reality as crisis '
Conference
  Convened by Toma Peiu Luiza Parvu .
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P25: Between academic theory-building and social engagement '
Conference
  Convened by Henrike Neuhaus Yanina Carpentieri .
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P26a: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P26b: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P26c: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P26d: Empirical art '
Conference
  Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .
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P27a: Colonial Film Archives '
Conference
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .
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P27b: Colonial Film Archives '
Conference
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .
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P27c: Colonial Film Archives '
Conference
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .
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President's Award - Trinh T. Minh-ha 2023 '
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She will receive the award in person on Thursday 23 March, at the screening of What About China? at Arnolfini (Bristol). On that occasion Trinh T. Minh-ha will be in conversation with May Adadol Ingawanij.
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Researching marriage, filming Family Time '
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Sarah Pink 2023 90'
Special Programmes
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This talk will be live streamed online on Tuesday 7 March 2023 10:00 - 11:30, UK time. There is a mounting ethical onus on anthropological filmmakers to go further in their engagements with futures;
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Shorts 01 - Creative lives 100'
Shorts Programme
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The power of art to make worlds come into being
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Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion 69'
Shorts Programme
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Ritual encounters with divinity
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Shorts 03 - Pleasure 76'
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Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]
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Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1 62'
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
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Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2 71'
Shorts Programme
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
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Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual 97'
Shorts Programme
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Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish
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Shorts 07 - Sparks! 76'
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Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film
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Shorts 08 - Livelihoods 90'
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Portraits of people working in rural settings
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Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge 110'
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Teaching the next generation
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Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis 69'
Shorts Programme
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People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste
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The Visual Scholarship Initiative '
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This session discusses the work of the Visual Scholarship Initiative (VSI), which was started in 2006 by a small group of graduate students at Emory University. It quickly established itself on the
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We Don't Need A Grave 2014 27'
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'We Don't Need a Grave' attempts to show how the people who choose Shizenso rather than the typical family grave try to accept one's death. Shizenso is a natural mortuary practice that has no
Central Asia and Far East Religion / Belief / Faith Death Ritual