Film Festivals and Anthropology
Edited by Aida Vallejo and María Paz Peirano
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This collection explores the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. Film and anthropology scholars map ethnographic film festivals and ethnographic approaches to festivals worldwide. The book provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel evolution of programming and organisational practices across the globe. It also addresses the great value and challenges of ethnographic research tools for studying the wide-ranging field of film festivals.
This volume is the first to collect long-term experiences of curating and exhibiting ethnographic film, as well as new approaches to the understanding of film festival practices. Its contributions reflect on curatorial practices within visual anthropology and their implications for ethnographic filmmaking, and they shed light on problems of cultural translation, funding, festival audiences and the institutionalisation of ethnographic cinema.
The book offers a novel perspective on film festivals as showcases for cinema, socio-cultural hubs and distribution nodes. Aimed at anthropologists, media scholars, festival organisers and documentary film professionals, it offers a starting point for the study of ethnographic film exhibition within its cultural and social contexts.
Read reviews here:
Social Anthropology, 26:1 (2018): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1469-8676.12458
Frames Cinema Journal: http://framescinemajournal.com/article/film-festivals-and-anthropology/
Zer, n42, 2017, pp. 249-250. https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/Zer/issue/view/1546/showToc
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface ………………………………………………………………………………………… xiii
Screening Anthropology across the Planet
Faye Ginsburg
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Film Festivals and Anthropology
María Paz Peirano and Aida Vallejo
Part I: MAPPING ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVALS
Part I. Introduction …………………………………………………………………………. 21
Mapping Ethnographic Film Festivals: a World Overview
María Paz Peirano
I.I. Curating Anthropology
Chapter 1 ……………………………………………………………………………………… 39
Festivals, Conferences, Seminars and Networks
in Visual Anthropology in Europe
Colette Piault
Chapter 2 ……………………………………………………………………………………… 73
Ethnographic and Indigenous Film Festivals in Latin America:
Constructing Networks of Film Circulation
María Paz Peirano
Chapter 3 ……………………………………………………………………………………… 89
Visual Anthropology in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia:
a History of Festival Practices
Victoria Vasileva (Chistyakova) and Ekaterina Trushkina
Chapter 4 ……………………………………………………………………………………. 111
The Artful Narrative of Anthropological Festivals: View from the Baltics
Carlo A. Cubero
I.II. Case Studies
Chapter 5 ……………………………………………………………………………………. 127
Between Familiar and Unfamiliar. Ethnographic Films
in the Festival dei Popoli
Vittorio Iervese
Chapter 6 ……………………………………………………………………………………. 143
Temple University’s Conferences on Visual Anthropology.
A First Person, Clearly Biased Report on an Experiment
Jay Ruby
Chapter 7 ……………………………………………………………………………………. 165
Margaret Mead Film Festival: Four Decades of World Picture(s)
Neta Alexander
Chapter 8 ……………………………………………………………………………………. 179
The Nordic Eye Revisited. NAFA, 1975 to 2015
Peter I. Crawford
Chapter 9 ……………………………………………………………………………………. 193
Les Regards Comparés and Le Bilan du Film Ethnographique:
Jean Rouch’s initiatives
Nadine Wanono
Chapter 10 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 207
The Film Festival of the Royal Anthropological Institute:
A Personal Memoir on its Thirtieth Anniversary
Paul Henley
Chapter 11 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 223
25 Years of Beeld voor Beeld Festival and Visual Anthropology
in the Netherlands
Eddy Appels
Chapter 12 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 235
Organisational Challenges when Programming an
Ethnographic Film Festival: Lessons from Göttingen
Beate Engelbrecht
Part II: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF FILM FESTIVALS
Part II. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………… 251
Ethnographies of Film Festivals: Reflections on Methodology
Aida Vallejo
Chapter 13 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 261
Insider/outsider Positions at Glasgow Film Festival: Challenges,
Issues and Opportunities in Industry-Partnered Ethnographic Research
Lesley-Ann Dickson
Chapter 14 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 277
Travelling the Circuit: A Multi-sited Ethnography of
Documentary Film Festivals in Europe
Aida Vallejo
Chapter 15 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 293
A Community at the Margins: An Ethnography of
Chinese Independent Film Festivals
Flora Lichaa
Chapter 16 ………………………………………………………………………………….. 305
Programmer as Festival Spokesperson: Information Management
Strategies at the Toronto International Film Festival
SED Mitchell
Contributors ………………………………………………………………………………… 323
Index of Festivals ………………………………………………………………………… 329
Index of Films……………………………………………………………………………… 335
Index of Names……………………………………………………………………………. 341
Index of Subjects …………………………………………………………………………. 347
Quoatations:
Circulation and distribution of ethnographic films in Latin America Circulación y distribución de cine etnográfico en América Latina Hugo Chávez Carvajal. http://dx.doi.org/10.17163/uni.n27.2017.1
Naumović, Slobodan (2017).”Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology and Film Festivals in the Age of Hybrid genres, Post-cinematographic and post-human creative tendencies”, in XXVI International Festival of Ethnological Film. Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade: Belgrade.