Film

The 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film is taking place on th 1st-4th of July 2009 at Leeds Met University.

We would like to invite you for a series of free lunch-time screenings, which the RAI is organising in collaboration with the British Museum for the new exhibition Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Friday 26 March, 13.30 - Documentary double bill The Blooms of Banjeli: Technology […]

We would like to invite you for a series of free lunch-time screenings, which the RAI is organising in collaboration with the British Museum for the new exhibition Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Friday 9 April, 13.30, A documentary with guest speaker director Jane Thorburn Alagba: […]

We would like to invite you for a series of free lunch-time screenings, which the RAI is organising in collaboration with the British Museum for the new exhibition Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa. Location: Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised Friday 23 April, 13.30, A documentary double bill Benin Kingship Rituals Filmmakers: Frank […]

Jean Rouch and the French New Wave Thursday 3 June 20106.30-9.30 pm Paul Henley will introduce Rouch’s classic ‘ethnofiction’ Moi, un Noir, in which migrants on the Ivory Coast improvise their own lives both at work and at leisure. This film won the Prix Louis-Delluc, the French equivalent of an Oscar, in 1959 and had […]

LIVING WITH THE INVISIBLES (Vivre les invisible)followed by Q&A with anthropologist Philip Hermans Location: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Manson Lecture Theatre, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT No booking required; visitors will be asked to sign in with the porter. LIVING WITH THE INVISIBLES (Vivre les invisible) , 52 minutes, 2003 Filmmaker: Dirk […]

Screening of Jean Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters), 1954, 35 mins, selected by artist Spartacus Chetwynd and screened in conjunction of his own performative works, The Walk of Dover (2005) and Call of the Wild (2006). Saturday 2 October, 11am – 5.30 pm, Whitechapel Gallery Film London and Channel 4 in association with […]

Dilemma and Decision: Ethnographic Filmmaking in the Making 29th October REGISTRATION 9.30 AM. TO 10.00 A.M. SCREENINGS 10.00 AM TO 6.30 P.M. Itsushi Kawase, University of Manchester (Ethiopian Troubadors) John Baily, Goldsmith’s College (Amir, refugee musicians) An van Dienderen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, University College Ghent (Verapaz, Belgian quest for Eldorado in Guatemala) Angela […]

Upstairs @ the RAI Screening LIVING WITH THE INVISIBLES colour, 52 minutes, 2003 Filmmaker: Dirk Dumont Anthropologist: Philip Hermans followed by Q&A with Philip Hermans When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” (caused by the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe, […]

Khyber Friday 3 June, 13.15 in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, but booking is advised in order to secure a place. This film, from the Disappearing World Series, looks at the history of Afghanistan up to the Soviet invasion in 1979 from the perspectives of both British and Pashtun, with fascinating parallels to […]

Amir: An Afghan refugee musician’s life in Peshavar, Pakistan Thursday 16 June, 13.15 in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, but booking advised in order to secure a place. This film investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experience of […]

The 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011will be held in London, 23 - 26 June 2011 Sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), The Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL), and InSight Education For details on registration and the programme of events please go to the dedicated Film Festival website www.raifilmfest.org.uk. Here […]

MEN OF WORDS Film and Q&A with director Johanne Haaber Ihle about her film in 2009 and living and working in Yemen in 2011, experiencing the coming of the Arab Spring. (22 mins, 2009, A Student Film from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology; commendation Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize, RAI Film Festival 2011) ”Men of […]

Filming Intangible Heritage: Questions of rights, publication, and archiving Presentation with excerpts from a film in progress, followed by Q&A with Dr. Beate Engelbrecht Wednesday 15 February, 6pm Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French Theatre Book shop) Free for RAI […]

Diversity Month 2012 Pink Saris A film by Kim Longinotto. Screening organised in partnership with the Royal Anthropological Institute. Type of event: evening film screening Overview: "A girl’s life is cruel...A woman’s life is very cruel," notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto’s latest foray […]

Temporary Sanity Dan Brunn, NYC, 2006 The film tells about Jamaica's dance music culture in New York and the life of the versatile disc jockey Skerrit Bwoy. Originally from St Johns, Antigua, the youngster migrated to the Bronx in the mid 1990's, hanging around local clubs to emerge as a star of the international dance […]

Other Europe Rossella Schillaci, Italy, 2011 In Turin, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees. The film follows the life of its tenants, until its evacuation by the city authorities a year later. An emblematic tale of all European countries today and their respective immigration policies. Free entrance.

Shooting the Mursi Olisarali Olibui, Ben Young, Ethiopia / UK, 2009 This unique film tells the story of one of Africa's most isolated tribes through the eyes of one of its members, Olisarali Olibui, who carries in one hand a Kalashnikov and in the other a camera. It provides a compelling and at times disturbing […]