Film list

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Archival resources and Ethnographic Film '
Workshop
  Convened by Caterina Sartori .
This session brings together archivists and professionals who are involved in the preservation, cataloguing and digitisation of archival film and photographic material; and artists and ethnographers
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Artists’ Films and Ethnography '
Workshop
  Convened by Marko Ray Wilkinson Al Cameron Barbara Knorpp .
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
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Authors at the Festival & Reception '
Gala event
  Convened by Paul Henley .
A number of authors attending the Festival will present their books in the course of a Drinks Reception to which all Festival pass holders are cordially invited. Copies of the books will also be
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Careers in Ethnographic Film '
Workshop
  Convened by Ed Owles .
What do people do with a degree in visual anthropology? A panel from a variety of roles across academia, TV and independent filmmaking discuss their career paths and how their training in
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Carnival King of Europe '
Workshop
  Convened by Giovanni Kezich .
European winter festival masquerades possess a number of common elements - relating to character and content as well as structure - that are astonishingly similar across great geographical distances,
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Centenary of Jean Rouch '
Gala event
  Convened by Paul Henley .
After a brief introduction to the work of Jean Rouch, there will be a screening of one of his major works, "Moi, un Noir". This will be followed by a Round Table discussion and Q&A,
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Closing Reception & Awards Ceremony '
Gala event
  Convened by Paul Henley .
Steven Hughes, chair of the panel of judges will invite his fellow judges to announce the 2017 film prizes and to give a brief explanation of the reasons for their decision. After each prize
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Ethnographic Film in the Marketplace '
Forum
  Convened by André Singer .
This Forum will consider the distribution of films of an anthropological nature to broad general and international audiences as well as within the academic sphere. Chaired by André Singer, President
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Film, Identity and Nation-Building '
Workshop
  Convened by Jeremy MacClancy .
This workshop will consist of two presentations that query the relations between film, identity, and nation-building. They will interrogate the connections between an ever-developing technology, a
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The George Brandt Lecture - An Open Conversation with Hugh Brody '
Gala event
  Convened by Jacqueline Maingard Angela Piccini .
The RAI Life Achievement Award, which has been given at a number of RAI Film Festivals since 1990, has been awarded in 2017 to anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Hugh Brody. In collaboration with
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Interactive Documentary and Ethnographic Film '
Workshop
  Convened by Judith Aston Paolo Favero .
This workshop will aim to generate a constructive dialogue between innovative or emerging non-linear (or interactive) documentary practices and the terrain of ethnographic film. It will be structured
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John Baily Masterclass - Afghan Music '
Masterclass
  Convened by Barley Norton .
In this revelatory masterclass John Baily will trace his ‘career’ as an ethnomusicological film maker, starting with the films he made as a result of research in Herat, Afghanistan, in the 1970s:
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MacDougall Masterclass - Turkana Conversations Revisited '
Masterclass
  Convened by Michael Stewart .
Marking 40 years since its original release as well as its more recent digital remastering, David MacDougall will present the classic trilogy he made with his wife Judith on the Turkana pastoralists
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Reclaiming Fiction '
Workshop
  Convened by Isaac Marrero-Guillamón .
This roundtable discussion will consider the politics and aesthetics of ethnofiction in relation to current debates in ethnographic film around collaboration and self-representation. Participating
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Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in China '
Workshop
  Convened by Gary Seaman Paul Henley .
This workshop will assess contemporary ethnographic filmmaking in academic contexts in China and will include presentations by the following scholars. (Further presentations may be added later). All
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Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in Latin America (I) '
Workshop
  Convened by Carlos Flores Angela Torresan Antonio Zirion .
This workshop will offer a space for Latin American researchers to discuss methodological and theoretical issues around their own ethnographic film-making or works of other relevant film-makers. The
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Trends in Ethnographic Film-making in Latin America (II) '
Workshop
  Convened by Carlos Flores Angela Torresan Antonio Zirion .
This workshop will be a continuation of the workshop offered at 9:00 am on Thursday 30 March (Cinema 2, Watershed). It will offer a space for Latin American researchers to discuss methodological
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Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra 2016 37'
  Directed by Mara Lin Visser .
This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife
West Africa Trade Material Culture Art / Artists / Artisans
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Uzu 2015 27'
  Directed by Gaspard Kuentz .
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines
Central Asia and Far East Ritual Gender Role and Identity
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Visual Anthropology Interventions and Climate Change '
Workshop
  Convened by Mike Poltorak .
**Interested participants are invited to submit proposals for presentations to M.S.Poltorak@kent.ac.uk** There is a recognised disconnect between publicly available scientific information on
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Visual Worlds of Difference '
Workshop
  Convened by Raminder Kaur Paul Boyce .
This workshop will highlight the role of (audio-) visual and participatory arts works in the development of representations that move away from the fixity and/or Othering of identities. Our aim is to
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Welcome Reception '
Gala event
  Convened by RAI FILM FESTIVAL .
Join us for a reception to welcome our guests and to celebrate the start of the festival. All welcome. Sponsored by Wiley.
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‘Making of’ Anthropology on TV '
Workshop
  Convened by Evie Wright .
Filmmakers working with the BBC Natural History Unit will describe the practicalities of all the various stages of production – from the development of an idea with which to approach commissioners,