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Andrè Singer in conversation '

André and Nándi 2000 30'

Directed by Charlotte Grégoire .

Hungarian-born André Reinitz only discovered his Jewish identity when he moved to Brussels at the age of ten. Since then, in spite of the silence of his parents, he has become involved in the Jewish

Western Europe Eastern Europe and Baltic States Religion / Belief / Faith Music / Ethnomusicology Life Story / Life History

Animation 2023 60'

Special Programmes
Animation .

Screening online 3-31 March, and at Watershed (Bristol, UK) 25 March, 17:00-18:00

Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography '

Anti-Racist Documentary Filmmaking Workshop '

Talks
Convened by Elena Guzman Miasarah Lai .

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

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 -

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

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 2023 '

Special Programmes
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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

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

Awards Ceremony 120'

Gala event
Convened by Royal Anthropological Institute .

Join us to close the 16th RAI Film Festival as we announce the winners of this year's prizes and awards.

Beyond observation '

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

The Book of the Sea 2018 85'

Material Culture Directed by Aleksei Vakhrushev .

An intimate look inside day-to-day life on the frozen fringe of the Bering Strait in Russia, home to the Inuit and Chukchi. We follow community leader Alexei, his wife Galya (a nurse) and their son

Broken Gods 2019 42'

Werbner Award Directed by Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Chhara) Alice Tilche .

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

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

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,

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,

Chantal's Choice 1990 30'

Directed by Priscilla Hinckley Carlyn Saltman .

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)

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

Creative Mentorship - Session 1 105'

Forum
Convened by Caterina Sartori .

This special event provides a chance to glimpse exciting new ethnographic film projects in the making. In these sessions, filmmakers will pitch their projects and share a short extract from their

Creative Mentorship - Session 2 105'

Forum
Convened by RAI Film Festival .

A chance to glimpse exciting new ethnographic film projects in the making. In these sessions, filmmakers will pitch their projects and share a short extract from their works-in-progress. They will

David MacDougall 2023 90'

Special Programmes
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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

Death of the One who Knows 2020 82'

Werbner Award Directed by Dana Rappoport .

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'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Rethinking how collections are made and remembered

Decolonising the Archive shorts #2 73'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Rethinking how collections are made and remembered

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

Dor, Low is Better 1988 47'

Directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes .

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] '

Engaging/Empowering Image-Voices '

Conference
Convened by Raminder Kaur Mariagiulia Grassilli .

How can anthropologists and filmmakers engage with and empower marginalised individuals and communities? Since the 1950s, ethnographic filmmakers and theorists have advocated for participatory

Ethnographic Film and Mental Health: Transformations and Impact '

Workshop
Convened by Mike Poltorak .

This interactive workshop explores the challenges and possibilities that emerge when visual anthropologists engage with ideas and experiences associated with mental health – and, in particular,

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

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

Filmmaking for Fieldwork '

Lifetime Achievement .

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

Global Racialisations shorts 57'

Shorts Programme
Shorts Convened by Mahdi Fleifel .

Global racialisations - Q&A with directors '

The Healer and the Psychiatrist 2019 74'

Werbner Award Directed by Mike Poltorak .

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

Honouring Professor Stephen Nugent '

Conference
Convened by Renato Athias .

Professor Stephen Nugent, a major figure in the field of Visual Anthropology, passed away in November 2018. At Goldsmiths, Steve set up the pioneering MA in Visual Anthropology, and more recently

I Am Belmaya 2020 80'

Main Competition Directed by Sue Carpenter .

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 '

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

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

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:

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

Keynote by Faye Ginsburg '

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 '

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

Kim Longinotto 120'

Gala event
Convened by Angela Piccini .

This year, the RAI Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded in 2019 to multi award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto. Marking this occasion, Longinotto will give the 2019 George Brandt Lecture at a

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

Mahdi Fleifel Trilogy 103'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Affects and Imaginaries of Racialisation

Masterclass: Laurent Van Lancker 105'

Masterclass
Convened by Chris Wright .

This year's RAI Film Festival Masterclass will be delivered by award-winning filmmaker Laurent Van Lancker, in conversation with Chris Wright. Van Lancker won the Basil Wright Prize at the RAI

Muir ar n-Athraichean (Our Fathers’ Sea) '

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'

Global Racialisations Directed by Kurt Orderson .

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'

Main Competition Directed by Dan Girmus .

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 '

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 '

P04: Rethinking anthropological film distribution '

Conference
Convened by Christos Varvantakis Sanderien Verstappen .

P05a: The crisis of communication '

Conference
Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .

P05b: The crisis of communication '

Conference
Convened by Federica Manfredi Lucia Portis .

P06a: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '

Conference
Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Yáñez Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .

P06b: Worker’s precarity: audio-visual representations of resistance '

Conference
Convened by Lana Askari Paloma Serrano Jose Luis Fajardo-Escoffie .

P07: Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis '

Conference
Convened by Sanderien Verstappen Mark Westmoreland .

P08a: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '

Conference
Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .

P08b: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '

Conference
Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .

P08c: Mask: the Face of Covid-19 '

Conference
Convened by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Cathy Greenhalgh .

P09: Together for Mental Health '

Conference
Convened by Erminia Colucci .

P10: Housing loss and insecurity '

Conference
Convened by Caterina Sartori .

P11: Social movements, protest, social justice & creativity '

Conference
Convened by José Sherwood .

P12a: Immersive Ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .

P12b: Immersive Ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Rossella Schillaci Mark Westmoreland .

P13: Our pandemic lives: photographing the pandemic '

Conference
Convened by Caroline Bennett .

P14: Co-agitō ergo sum '

Conference
Convened by César Enrique Giraldo Herrera .

P15: Quality and equality in collaborative projects '

Conference
Convened by Arjang Omrani Kris Rutten .

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 .

P17: Workshop: Radical inclusivity and visual ethnography '

Conference
Convened by Mike Poltorak .

P18: Chronotopes during crisis '

Conference
Convened by Alastair Lomas Charlotte Hoskins Andrea Bordoli .

P19: The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter '

Conference
Convened by Judith Aston Shawn Sobers .

P20: Big mouth '

Conference
Convened by Nomi Dave Bremen Donovan .

P21: Crisis through comics: a roundtable discussion on graphic anthropology '

Conference
Convened by Letizia Bonanno José Sherwood .

P22: Rhythm, sight and sound: work in times of uncertainty '

Conference
Convened by Sandro Simon Valerie Haensch Ian M. Cook .

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Persistence 2019 54'

Main Competition Directed by Anne Huffschmid Jan-Holger Hennies .

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

President's Award - Trinh T. Minh-ha 2023 '

Special Programmes
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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.

Pride of Place - Observations of lives of girls at a Public School 1976 59'

Directed by Dorothea Gazidis Kimona Landseer Kim Longinotto .

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

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

Researching marriage, filming Family Time '

Rituals on TV 90'

Seminar
Convened by RAI / BBC / Swan Films .

Several recent television productions have embraced ritual - a classic topic for anthropologists! These shows have sought to document, explore, and interrogate ritual as both spectacle and concept

Sangita Priya: Lover of Music 2007 30'

Directed by Anne-Katrine Hansen .

From temples to recording studios of Kochi, Kerala in South India, we follow four musicians -a student and his master, a professional and a promoter - all uniquely devoted to the music that permeates

South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge transmission

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;

The Shackles of Tradition - Franz Boas (1858-1942) 1986 52'

Directed by André Singer .

Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series

Various History of Anthropology Public Figure

Shorts 01 - Creative lives 100'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

The power of art to make worlds come into being

Shorts 02 - Women, empowerment and religion 69'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Ritual encounters with divinity

Shorts 03 - Pleasure 76'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Ground-breaking shorts exploring the world of sex and pleasure [NSFW! Contains adult content]

Shorts 04 - Migration at the crossroads/1 62'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Questioning the representation of migrant experience

Shorts 05 - Migration at the crossroads/2 71'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Questioning the representation of migrant experience

Shorts 06 - Animals | Humans | Ritual 97'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Close encounters with bees, cockrels, fish

Shorts 07 - Sparks! 76'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Experimental short form pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film

Shorts 08 - Livelihoods 90'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Portraits of people working in rural settings

Shorts 09 - Indigenous knowledge 110'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

Teaching the next generation

Shorts 10 - Environmental crisis 69'

Shorts Programme
Shorts .

People coping with the consequeces of climate change, pollution and waste

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

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

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

Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia 2020 76'

Directed by Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿 .

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

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

The Visual Scholarship Initiative '

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

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

The Water Goddess and the Computer 1988 58'

Lifetime Achievement Directed by J. Stephen Lansing Andre Singer .

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.

Why Wear White 1989 28'

Directed by Sarah Cole .

The wedding industry in Britain is currently booming and many people find it necessary to have a long white dress, an old-fashioned car and other specially made details for their wedding. The film,

British-Irish Isles Marriage Social Norms

‘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,