Films

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 of four films by contemporary artists – Charlotte Prodger, Juan Downey, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Andrew Norman Wilson – that engage with ethnographic practice.

Subjects range from corporate hierarchy within Google to a sub-culture of online trainer fetishists, from cinematic representations of cult rituals to a trip to visit the Yanomami of Venezuela. The films share a self-reflexivity and a questioning of documentary realism.

Workers Leaving the Googleplex – Andrew Norman Wilson, USA 2011, 12 mins

The Laughing Alligator – Juan Downey, USA 1979, 27 mins

Call of the Wild – Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, UK 2007, 13 mins

:-* – Charlotte Prodger, UK 2011, 12 mins

The same programme will be screening as a pre-festival event on Thursday 16 March 8pm "Possession Rituals" BEEF Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film Brunswick Square 15-16 York Street Bristol BS2 6NX

£4/£3 www.beefbristol.org