Gaea GirlsKim Longinotto, Jano Williams / United Kingdom / 2000 / 106 mins Friday 3rd February 2017 7.30pm - 9.45pm The Exchange Bar (The Snug room), 50 Rutland St, Cultural Quarter, Leicester LE1 1RD A film about courage, transformation and dreams in the extraordinary world of Japanese women's wrestling. Gaea Girls focuses on the hopes […]
The Auction House: A Tale of Two BrothersEd Owles / United Kingdom / 2014 / 85 min Tuesday 7 February 2017 5.30-7.30 PM Location: Lecture Centre room 064, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH Campus map: www.brunel.ac.uk/campus-map The oldest auction house in India is fighting for survival in the age of eBay and a changing […]
NodeThursday 23 February 2017 at 6.30pm at the Royal Anthropological Institute Free – booking essential Book online here Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Although municipal records drafted in 2009 recorded a population of 120 residents amongst its five districts, over half […]
Leaving GreeceAnna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Sunday 26th February, 11AM. Cinema City, Norwich, St Andrew’s Street, Norwich, NR2 4AD When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all […]
Sifinja: the Iron BrideValerie Hänsch / Sudan,Germany / 2009 / 70 minutes Thursday 9th March 2017, 6:30PM. Bromley Historic Collections The Lubbock Gallery, 2nd Floor, Central Library, High Street, Bromley BR1 1EX Winner of the Material Culture & Archaeology Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to […]
Migration and exile double billThursday 9 March, 19.30 Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, 7 Pier Road, St Helier, Jersey Leaving Greece Anna Brass / Germany / 2013 / 79 min Winner of the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film, 2015 The film tells the very personal story of three young […]
Memories of the Ainu Past and PresentTuesday 21 March 2017 at 7.00pm Lecture theatre SALT, Senate House SOAS University of London 10 Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Free – booking essential Book online here Co-organised by the Japan Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), this is the third and last in the current […]
15th RAI Film Festivalanthropology – ethnography – archaeology 29 March - 1 April 2017 Watershed Cinema, Bristol, United Kingdom Tickets and more details available at https://raifilm.org.uk/ The RAI Film Festival is a biennial event dedicated to the celebration of the best in ethnographic, anthropological and archaeological filmmaking from around the globe. First held in 1985, […]
Breaking the Chains: film screening and DVD Launch followed by discussion with the directorTuesday 23 May at 6.00pm The practice of using shackles and chains (known in Bahasa Indonesian as 'pasung') to physically restrain people with mental illness is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other low-middle income countries) and almost universally ignored. This ethnographic […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 4 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS J. C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer by Steven Feld, 55 min / 2016 This film presents an exceptional fifty-year artistic career, from Accra’s streets to Ghana’s villages to international TV. In […]
The Block: film screening with director Maria ȘalaruTuesday 10 October at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES THE BLOCK Maria Șalaru Romania / 2016 / 60 minutes From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, The Block explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment building. It follows the story of the […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 11 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Day the Sun Fell by Aya Domenig, 78 min / 2015 The Swiss-Japanese filmmaker is the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 18 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The King of the Cockroaches by Timothy Cooper 70 min / 2016 The degraded surfaces of mass-copied films - the glitches, scanlines, errors, and coding artifacts - rather than the […]
Goldsmiths MA Visual Anthropology End of Year ScreeningSaturday 21 October 4PM – 8PM The Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT 4PM – 5:15PM Misia Zoccoli - Where is home (20’) A woman in the street can be everyone, and a smile can hide many experiences. A single-person ethnography, this short film is […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 25 October 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Journey to the Maggot Feeder by Liivo Niglas and Priit Tender, 68 min / 2015 This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, […]
Carnival, King of Europe: DVD launch & presentationFriday 27 October at 6.00pm Visual Anthropology Series Carnival King of Europe is a research project of the Ethnographic Museum of San Michele all’Adige, Italy (Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina), that aims to bring into light the important similarities that can be observed among specific aspects of […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 1 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Socotra, the Island of Djinns by Jordi Esteva, 64 min / 2016 The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off […]
Travel: film screening with director Nick MaiTuesday 7 November at 7.00pm Visual Anthropology Series TRAVEL Nick Mai France / 2016 / 63 minutes Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was going to sell sex in France, but she was unaware of the degree of exploitation that she would […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 15 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Ignacio's Legacy by Titus Fossgard-Moser. 52 min / 2016 Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 22 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Cinema Travelers by Shirley Abraham Amit Madheshiya, 96 min / 2016 An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has […]
