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Film list
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Andrè Singer in conversation
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Talks
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Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
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Talks
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Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
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Talks
Convened by
Elena Guzman
Miasarah Lai
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This workshop offers fundamental strategies for anti-racist documentary storytelling from concept to production. The need for anti-racist filmmaking has reverberated throughout the film industry with
Beyond observation
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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
Broken Gods
2019
42
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Chhara)
Alice Tilche
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Set among the Rathava and Bhil Adivasi communities of western India, Broken Gods documents the social impact of Hindu religious evangelism among India’s Indigenous groups. As Indigenous people join
Chantal's Choice
1990
30
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Directed by
Priscilla Hinckley
Carlyn Saltman
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Adolescents in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, create a play for their peers in Europe and the USA. They enact an African folktale about a girl who faces a painful dilemma because she is determined to stay in school.
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Children / Young people
Reproduction (biology)
Death of the One who Knows
2020
82
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Dana Rappoport
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In the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi (Indonesia), Lumbaa is one of the last masters of ritual speech. After his forced conversion to Pentecostalism, he is compelled to stop all his ritual activity and
Decolonising the Archive shorts #1
70
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
Decolonising the Archive shorts #2
73
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Rethinking how collections are made and remembered
Dor, Low is Better
1988
47
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Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
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The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Ritual
Engaging Media Worlds [NYU]
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Talks
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Filmmaking for Fieldwork
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Talks
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Fireball
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Lifetime Achievement
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Global Racialisations shorts
57
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
Convened by
Mahdi Fleifel
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Global racialisations - Q&A with directors
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Talks
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The Healer and the Psychiatrist
2019
74
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Werbner Award
Directed by
Mike Poltorak
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This film explores the tensions, contradictions, and resonances between traditional and psychiatric treatment in the South Pacific Island group of Vava’u. We meet two main characters: the
I Am Belmaya
2020
80
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Main Competition
Directed by
Sue Carpenter
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Belmaya is desperate for independence. Born a dalit in Nepal, orphaned aged 9, barely educated, and trapped in an abusive marriage with a baby daughter, Belmaya, 21, has given up hope of finding
Imagine(ing) migration
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Talks
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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
Keynote by Faye Ginsburg
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Talks
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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
Keynote by Stephanie Spray
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Talks
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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
Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy
103
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation
Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea)
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Talks
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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
Not in my Neighbourhood
2018
86
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Global Racialisations
Directed by
Kurt Orderson
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As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘world-class city status’, we have to ask ourselves, “at what cost”? This film tells the intergenerational stories of spatial violence in
Oyate
2019
72
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Main Competition
Directed by
Dan Girmus
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This carefully observed film is composed of a series of moments, feelings, gestures, and events that took place on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the summer of 2015. The narrative,
P01: Rethinking fieldwork
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Conference
Convened by
Maruska Svasek
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P02a: Crisis, creativity and ethics
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Conference
Convened by
Timothy Cooper
Till J F Trojer
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P02b: Crisis, creativity and ethics
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Conference
Convened by
Timothy Cooper
Till J F Trojer
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P03: Existential crisis, exceptional fields
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Conference
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P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution
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Conference
Convened by
Christos Varvantakis
Sanderien Verstappen
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P05a: The crisis of communication
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Conference
Convened by
Federica Manfredi
Lucia Portis
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P05b: The crisis of communication
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Conference
Convened by
Federica Manfredi
Lucia Portis
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P06a: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance
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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
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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
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Conference
Convened by
Sanderien Verstappen
Mark Westmoreland
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P08a: Mask: the Face of Covid-19
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Conference
Convened by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Cathy Greenhalgh
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P08b: Mask: the Face of Covid-19
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Conference
Convened by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Cathy Greenhalgh
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P08c: Mask: the Face of Covid-19
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Conference
Convened by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Cathy Greenhalgh
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P09: Together for Mental Health
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Conference
Convened by
Erminia Colucci
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P10: Housing loss and insecurity
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Conference
Convened by
Caterina Sartori
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P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity
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Conference
Convened by
José Sherwood
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P12a: Immersive Ethnography
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Conference
Convened by
Rossella Schillaci
Mark Westmoreland
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P12b: Immersive Ethnography
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Conference
Convened by
Rossella Schillaci
Mark Westmoreland
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P13: Our pandemic lives: photographing the pandemic
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Conference
Convened by
Caroline Bennett
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P14: Co-agitō ergo sum
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Conference
Convened by
César Enrique Giraldo Herrera
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P15: Quality and equality in collaborative projects
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Conference
Convened by
Arjang Omrani
Kris Rutten
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P16a: Global Black Lives Matter
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Conference
Convened by
Raminder Kaur
Mariagiulia Grassilli
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P16b: Global Black Lives Matter
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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
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Conference
Convened by
Mike Poltorak
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P18: Chronotopes during crisis
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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
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Conference
Convened by
Judith Aston
Shawn Sobers
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P20: Big mouth
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Conference
Convened by
Nomi Dave
Bremen Donovan
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P21: Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology
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Conference
Convened by
Letizia Bonanno
José Sherwood
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P22: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty
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Conference
Convened by
Sandro Simon
Valerie Haensch
Ian M. Cook
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P23a: Disappearing world reloaded
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Conference
Convened by
Blake P Kendall
Pavel Borecký
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P23b: Disappearing world reloaded
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Conference
Convened by
Blake P Kendall
Pavel Borecký
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P23c: Disappearing world reloaded
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Conference
Convened by
Blake P Kendall
Pavel Borecký
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P24: Encountering reality as crisis
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Conference
Convened by
Toma Peiu
Luiza Parvu
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P25: Between academic theory-building and social engagement
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Conference
Convened by
Henrike Neuhaus
Yanina Carpentieri
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P26a: Empirical art
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Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
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P26b: Empirical art
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Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
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P26c: Empirical art
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Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
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P26d: Empirical art
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Conference
Convened by
Andy Lawrence
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Angélica Cabezas Pino
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P27a: Colonial Film Archives
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Conference
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Emma Sandon
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P27b: Colonial Film Archives
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Conference
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Emma Sandon
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P27c: Colonial Film Archives
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Conference
Convened by
Jacqueline Maingard
Emma Sandon
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Persistence
2019
54
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Main Competition
Directed by
Anne Huffschmid
Jan-Holger Hennies
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Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as
Central America
Forensic
Memory
Pride of Place - Observations of lives of girls at a Public School
1976
59
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Directed by
Dorothea Gazidis
Kimona Landseer
Kim Longinotto
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A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Gender Role and Identity
Researching marriage, filming Family Time
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Talks
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Shorts 01 - Creative lives
100
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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The power of art to make worlds come into being
Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion
69
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Ritual encounters with divinity
Shorts 03 - Pleasure
76
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]
Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1
62
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2
71
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Questioning the representation of migrant experience
Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual
97
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish
Shorts 07 - Sparks!
76
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film
Shorts 08 - Livelihoods
90
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Portraits of people working in rural settings
Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge
110
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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Teaching the next generation
Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis
69
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Shorts Programme
Shorts
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People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia
2020
76
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Directed by
Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿
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Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Political Activists
Resistance
Rural
Social Conflict
The Visual Scholarship Initiative
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Talks
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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
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1988
58
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Lifetime Achievement
Directed by
J. Stephen Lansing
Andre Singer
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