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Films
9 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Reflexivity”
x
films with a digital version
3
short films
9
x
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Caribbean Islands
1
Central America
1
East Africa
1
North and Northeast Africa
2
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
2
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Belgium
1
Ethiopia
2
Germany
1
Greece
1
Indonesia
1
Jamaica
1
Mexico
1
Sierra Leone
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
3
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
2
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Migration
2
Possession
1
Prison
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
9
x
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Resettlement
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Arcé, Adrian
1
Asch, Patsy
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Connor, Linda
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDougall, David
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Xu, Beina
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
Decolonising Shorts
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Shorts Collection 2
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
3
Country of production
Australia
2
Germany
2
Japan
1
Mexico
1
United Kingdom
3
United States
1
Year of production
1973
1
1980
1
2006
1
2010
1
2011
2
2013
1
2018
1
2020
1
Film list
Counterpoint One
2011
37
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The first in the Forum Follies series, ‘Counterpoint One’ pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film ‘Holy Hustlers’ (2009), from a rough to a final
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
Forget Alberto For Now
2020
19
‘
Directed by
Beina Xu
.
A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things
Western Europe
Western Mediterranean
Reflexivity
Migration
Resettlement
Refugees/ Displaced populations
Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Séance Observed
1980
16
‘
Directed by
Timothy Asch
Linda Connor
Patsy Asch
.
For the first time Jero sees herself on film as she watches ‘A Balinese Trance Séance’. Her spontaneous comments provide insights into her feelings while possessed, her understanding of her
South-East Asia
Possession
Reflexivity
Health / Health care / Healing
Made in Trenchtown
2010
33
‘
Directed by
Ester Maagdenberg
.
‘Made in Trenchtown’ is the product of a collaboration with three teenagers from Trenchtown – a ghetto in Kingston, Jamaica, controlled by drug lords. As Philomena, Diamond and Stephan hold the
Caribbean Islands
Children / Young people
Reflexivity
Out of Focus
2013
37
‘
Directed by
Adrian Arcé
Antonio Zirión
.
This is a collaborative documentary about arts, culture and everyday life inside a prison for minors. It was shot during a photography and video workshop with young inmates at the Juvenile Community
Central America
Children / Young people
Prison
Art / Artists / Artisans
Reflexivity
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
‘
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Shooting Freetown
2011
29
‘
Directed by
Kieran Hanson
.
A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,
West Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Reflexivity
Under the Men’s Tree
1973
15
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity