Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 27 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest, Phil Agland, 2013, 89 mins Phil Agland returns to south east Cameroon to rediscover the Baka family he filmed 25 […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 2 February 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM THE AUCTION HOUSE: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS Director/Anthropologist: Ed Owles UK / 2014 / 85 min Country of Production: Location: India Ethnic Group: Indian […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 3 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Body Games, Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Christine Dettmann, 2014, 87 mins The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 17 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Damiana Kryygi, Alejandro Fernández Mouján, 2015, 96 mins Paraguay, 1896. A three year-old girl is captured by settlers after they had massacred of a group of […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 24 February 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Queens of Syria, Yasmin Fedda, 2014, 70 mins Boya Boya (Shine Shine), Karen Boswall, Ruba Al Akash, 2014, 18 mins The first film tells the story […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 2 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Ainu: Paths to Memory, Marcos Centano, 2014, 82 mins The film sets out to discover the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan. The film shows a […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 14th International Ethnographic Film Festival 4th-6th March 2016 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 4-6th, 2016. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall [SGM}on USC campus. Vermont Avenue Entrance at 36th Place (Gate #6). The prize winning films at The 14th RAI International […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 9 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Mr Coperthwaite: Spring in Dickinson's Reach, Anna Grimshaw, 2014, 82 min. In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 16 March 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS The Halfmoon Files- A Ghost Story, Philip Scheffner, 2008. 87 min. This experimental film follows the history of a brief sound recording of the voice of […]
Torres Strait Trilogy Film Screenings + Q&A with Director Frances Calvert11.00-17.00 Monday 23 May 2016 Nash Lecture Theatre Second Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, are excited to […]
Friday 27th May, 20:30ARE YOU LISTENING! Kamar Ahmad Simon Bangladesh / 2012 / 90 min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You […]
Saturday 28th May, 20:00 PEAK Hannes Lang Germany, Italy / 2011/ 91min As part of the Anthropology, Climate Change and Weather conference, the RAI, in partnership with Bertha DocHouse Screen at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema, presents a curated programme of films open to conference delegates and to the general public. Are You Listening! and Peak […]
Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic films by anthropologists interested in the subject of care for the elderly and for people suffering from dementia. The screenings, which will be followed by a discussion, aim to investigate how films explore notions of access and visibility of ‘care’ […]
Symposium No. 2: Slow Cinema ScreeningsFriday 8 July 2016 11:00am to 5:00pm Location: UCL Slow Cinema Screenings A series of slow cinema film screenings will be held at UCL on 8 July. This event follows on from the inaugural Slow Cinema Symposium held at the Institute of Archaeology in April 2016. Filmmakers are invited to […]
An|Other Representation. Final film screening MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths 2015-16Saturday 17 September 5.00-8.00pm Sunday 18 September 5.00-8.00pm Students graduating from the MA Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University present an exclusive selection of their final short-films. Come and discover a myriad of serendipitous realities from Jamaica to Berlin, San Francisco to Catalonia, Kenya to Norfolk over […]
Visual Anthropology and the City14 & 15 October 2016 ‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists. Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the 1920s. Ethnography and long-term research facilitated deeper insights into the everyday […]
Nowhere to Call HomeFriday 4 November 2016, 6.30pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Jocelyn Ford China / United States / 2014 / 76mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. "This story breaks all the rules and upends popular perceptions of Tibetans […]
Ukrainian Sheriffs Saturday 5 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Roman Bondarchuk Germany / Latvia / Ukraine / 2015 / 85mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. Welcome to Stara Zburyevka, where local sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are trying to keep […]
What Tomorrow Brings Sunday 6 November 2016, 4.10pm Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury WC1N 1AW Dir: Beth Murphy Afghanistan / United States / 2015 / 90mins Part of our The Lives of Others Season, bringing you tales from the four corners of the earth. A year in the life of the first all-girls school in a remote, conservative […]
Acts of RemembranceSunday 6 November 2016, 5.00pm to 8.00pm Kino-Teatr, 43-53 Norman Rd, Saint Leonards-on-Sea TN38 0EQ On the 6th November at 5pm we will be joined by a group of World War Two veterans in the beautiful Kino-Teatr in St Leonards-on-sea (Hastings). The event includes a screening of Return of the Liberators (filmmaker Janet […]
