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P01: Rethinking fieldwork '

Conference
Convened by Maruska Svasek .

P02a: Crisis, creativity and ethics '

Conference
Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .

P02b: Crisis, creativity and ethics '

Conference
Convened by Timothy Cooper Till J F Trojer .

P03: Existential crisis, exceptional fields '

Conference
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P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution '

Conference
Convened by Christos Varvantakis Sanderien Verstappen .

P09: Together for Mental Health '

Conference
Convened by Erminia Colucci .

P10: Housing loss and insecurity '

Conference
Convened by Caterina Sartori .

P12a: Immersive Ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .

P12b: Immersive Ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .

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P14: Co-agitō ergo sum '

Conference
Convened by César Enrique Giraldo Herrera .

P16a: Global Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

P16b: Global Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

P16c: Global Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

P18: Chronotopes during crisis '

Conference
Convened by Alastair Lomas Charlotte Hoskins Andrea Bordoli .

P20: Big mouth '

Conference
Convened by Nomi Dave Bremen Donovan .

P23a: Disappearing world reloaded '

Conference
Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .

P23b: Disappearing world reloaded '

Conference
Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .

P23c: Disappearing world reloaded '

Conference
Convened by Blake P Kendall Pavel Borecký .

P24: Encountering reality as crisis '

Conference
Convened by Toma Peiu Luiza Parvu .

P25: Between academic theory-building and social engagement '

Conference
Convened by Henrike Neuhaus Yanina Carpentieri .

P26a: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P26b: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P26c: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P26d: Empirical art '

Conference
Convened by Andy Lawrence Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Angélica Cabezas Pino .

P27a: Colonial Film Archives '

Conference
Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .

P27b: Colonial Film Archives '

Conference
Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .

P27c: Colonial Film Archives '

Conference
Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Emma Sandon .

Paltik Families 2016 60'

RAI Basil Wright Directed by Jason Fox Roel Arcilla .

Set in the ten days leading up to mayoral elections in Danao, Philippines, Paltik Families follows the Arcillas, a family engaged in an illegal network of counterfeit American gun manufacturers, an

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Panel 01: Indigenous Cinema: past, present and future 90'

Conference
Convened by Renato Athias Rodrigo Lacerda .

Full title - Indigenous Cinema: past, present and future Indigenous cinema is a very diverse and global category with more than fifty years of history. The panel seeks submissions to analyze the

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Panel 02: How to frame a poem in a film with others? 90'

Conference
Convened by Roseline Lambert Rachel McCrum .

Full title - How to frame a poem in a film with others? Experiences of translation between different langages, poems, pictures and borders This panel aims to discuss the realisation of film-poems

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Panel 03: Precarious landscapes (Part I) 90'

Conference
Convened by Toma Peiu .

Full title: Precarious landscapes: forensics and decolonial futures This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming

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Panel 03: Precarious landscapes (Part II) 90'

Conference
Convened by Toma Peiu .

Full title- Precarious landscapes: forensics and decolonial futures This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming

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Panel 04: Indigenous California 90'

Conference
Convened by Teri Brewer Sue Giles Wendy Teeter .

Full title- Indigenous California: A Forum on Collaborative Archaeological and Ethnographic Visual Media Projects In recent years there have been an increasing number of productive visual media

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Panel 05: Haptics and Visual Anthropology 90'

Conference
Convened by Aparna Sharma Arine Kirstein Høgel .

Full title - Haptics and Visual Anthropology: Audio-Visual Dialogues and Non-Verbal Forms of Knowledge Construction In this workshop, filmmakers and researchers Sharma and Høgel explore how

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Panel 06: Expanding Ethnographic Film: Multimodality? 90'

Conference
Convened by Mark Westmoreland Janine Prins .

This panel seeks to investigate the expansion of ethnographic film practices in cases where a combination of different practice-based methodologies led to a multimodal approach. To what extent does

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Panel 07: From the Field to the Screen (Part I) 90'

Conference
Convened by Angélica Cabezas Pino Mattia Fumanti .

Full title - From the Field to the Screen: Reflexive Practices and Collaborative Methods in Ethnographic Film. This panel includes contributions from visual anthropologists and filmmakers of

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Panel 07: From the Field to the Screen (Part II) 90'

Conference
Convened by Angélica Cabezas Pino Mattia Fumanti .

Full title - From the Field to the Screen: Reflexive Practices and Collaborative Methods in Ethnographic Film This panel includes contributions from visual anthropologists and filmmakers of

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Panel 08: Golden Wing, Silver Wings 90'

Conference
Convened by Gary Seaman Zhuang Kongshao .

Full title - Golden Wing, Silver Wings: Filmic representations of the autobiographical ethnography of Lin Yueh-hwa This panel will focus on the legacy of the famous Chinese anthropologist Lin

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Panel 09: We Three: Apparatus, Subject, Society (Part I) 90'

Conference
Convened by Timothy P. A. Cooper Vindhya Buthpitiya .

Departing from the tripartite relationship between apparatus, subject, and society this panel invites reflection on issues of exclusion, consent, cinephobia, cinephilia, censorship, archival

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Panel 09: We Three: Apparatus, Subject, Society (Part II) 90'

Conference
Convened by Timothy P. A. Cooper Vindhya Buthpitiya .

Departing from the tripartite relationship between apparatus, subject, and society this panel invites reflection on issues of exclusion, consent, cinephobia, cinephilia, censorship, archival

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Panel 10: Youth-centred frames (Part I) 90'

Conference
Convened by Camilla Morelli Flavia Kremer .

Full title - Youth-centred frames: visual collaborations and participatory techniques in the research with young people This panel explores the use of participatory visual methods (film-making

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Panel 10: Youth-centred frames (Part II) 90'

Conference
Convened by Camilla Morelli Flavia Kremer .

Full title - Youth-centred frames: visual collaborations and participatory techniques in the research with young people This panel explores the use of participatory visual methods (film-making and

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Panel 11: The material mediation of the ‘non-normative’ body 90'

Conference
Convened by Cathy Greenhalgh Catalin Brylla .

This panel considers filmmakers who seek to work with and represent ‘non-normative’ bodies that are traditionally stereotyped and portrayed as “the other”. The aim is to explore innovative or

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Panel 12: Transforming theory in and through film (Part I) 90'

Conference
Convened by Mattijs van de Port Janine Prins .

This panel seeks to expand theoretical ambitions in visual anthropology. We explore audio-visual modes of report that speak about existential issues via the minutiae of life-as-lived. We invite

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Panel 12: Transforming theory in and through film (Part II) 90'

Conference
Convened by Mattijs van de Port Janine Prins .

This panel seeks to expand theoretical ambitions in visual anthropology. We explore audio-visual modes of report that speak about existential issues via the minutiae of life-as-lived. We invite

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Pang Lhabsol: Sikkim's National Ritual of the Land and its Guardian Deities 2015 63'

Directed by Anna Balikci .

Pang Lhabsol, Sikkim’s most important indigenous celebration, consists of a series of rituals and monastic dances held in honour of Dzonga, a mountain deity residing on Mt. Khangchendzonga, the

Parizad 2021 24'

Shorts Directed by Mehdi Imani Shahmiri .

Keshvar is a lonely, old woman crafting an ancient, unknown woven textile, telling a strange story of a fairy and a shepherd who came to their village one day.

Pasajuego 2018 75'

Material Culture Directed by Daniel Oliveras de Ita .

“Pasajuego” is the name of the court where Oaxacans play the ancient indigenous ball game of Pelota Mixteca. Today more than two million people from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca live in

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Pedagogy & Public Anthropology: Legacies of Marshall's and Asch's Ethnographic Films 90'

Seminar
Convened by Nancy Lutkehaus .

This panel reflects on the role of ethnographic film in pedagogy and public anthropology past, present, and future. It explores the introduction of ethnographic film into school curricula in the

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People of Earth and Clouds 2016 65'

Directed by Matteo Robert Morales Louise Hantson .

People of Earth and Clouds is a documentary film that explores the role of music bands in indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico and shows why "a village with no band, is a village with no

The People of the Wind 2015 59'

Directed by Abtin Sarabi .

On the coast of the Persian Gulf, in the south of Iran, a ritual called Zâr is still practised today. This musical exorcism is said to heal all ‘victims of the wind.’ According to this popular,

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Positive Women: Heartache, Hope & Living with HIV 2017 30'

Directed by Rebecca Devaraj .

In 2016, filmmaker Bex Devaraj and anthropologist Anne Lotter were given unique access to one of the biggest slums in Kampala, Uganda, where every day is a struggle for survival. In this intimate

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Positive Youtubers – A Machinima Documentary 2017 15'

Special Interest Directed by Leandro Goddinho .

An experimental documentary made with footage material recorded from the computer desktop screen, about four Brazilians who have created Youtube Channels to talk openly about their HIV status. They

Poundmaker’s Lodge 1987 29'

Lifetime Achievement Award - Alanis Obomsawin Directed by Alanis Obomsawin .

Just north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health facility specialising in treatment for Indigenous people. Founded in 1973 and still operational today, the

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.

Prism 2021 78'

Werbner Award Directed by Rosine Mbakam Eléonore Yaméogo An van Dienderen .

Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon, and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which their different skin colour serves

The Prison Promise 2022 55'

Main Competition Directed by Joseph Dégramon Ndjom .

While still prisoners, director Joseph Dégramon Ndjom’s uncle, Detyr and his companion, Adèle, made a promise to each other: to start a new life together once they were free. Today, they live in

Prohibition of Grazing 2016 43'

Directed by Wenfei Li .

Zhang Yuansheng is 64-year-old who was originally a camel herder. Having been born in poverty, as the age of 17 he began studying camel herding in the desert and acquiring the the life skills

Promenade 2016 31'

RAI Basil Wright Directed by Philip Cartelli .

Recorded during two years but organized around a single day, “Promenade” observes a series of movements and interactions on a renovated section of the Marseille waterfront. During the day a cast

Pulse 2015 26'

Student Directed by Robin Petré .

This poetic, highly sensorial film takes place on one of Europe’s largest deer farms, which is home to 1,500 red deer and their caretakers. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first

Pushing Boundaries 2021 102'

Disability Futures Directed by Lesia Kordonets .

Athletes from the Ukrainian Paralympic National Team have lost their training base in Crimea due to the Russian annexation in 2014. They try to adapt to the new historic conditions in their private,

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