Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology 14 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building A Tale of Two Syrias Yasmin Fedda, 2012, 64 mins. Followed by Q&A session with director. Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrous […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 21 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Q2P Paromita Vohra, 2006, 55 mins Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 28 January 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers Ed Owles, 2014, India/UK, 85 mins. Followed by Q & A with director The oldest auction […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Final Fitting, OT: Prov Akhar Reza Haeri, Niloofar Haeri, 2008, 30 mins Mr. Arabpour is the master tailor and craftsman, and the proprietor of […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Other Europe Rosella Schillaci, 2011, Italy, 75 mins What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, […]
LGBT Film DayIn partnership with Camden LGBT Forum 21 February 2015, 12.00 - 17.30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum Free, tickets required for each section http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/tickets/films/icat/films A part of Camden & Islington LGBT History Month 2015. Films inspired by LGBT lives 12.00-13.00 Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa (1999) (TBC) Documentary / Cert. […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 25 February 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody Allen Laura Halilovic, 2009, Italy, 50 mins A very intimate journey about the ending of a nomadic life […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 4 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building Salma Kim Longinotto, 2013, UK/India. Followed by Q&A with director (tbc) When Salma was 13, her parents took her out of school and locked […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 11 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building In Pursuit of Happiness Ray Ono, Japan/UK, 2009, 31 mins Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesGENDER & CITY Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and the SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology Wednesday 18 March 1-3pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building The City Beautiful Rahul Roy, 2003, 78 mins Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital […]
Film Screening: Mabo: Life of an Island Man + Q&A with director, Trevor Graham18.00-20.00 Tuesday 26 May 2015 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS Entry is free but booking is required: https://mabo.eventbrite.co.uk The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal […]
The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2015 will be held in Bristol, 16 - 19 June 2015Sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, USC Dornsife, LA, California RAI Film Festival Festival […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 26 June 2015, 17.30pm Working Method: Digitising and Cataloguing Arthur Howes’ Mini DV Tapes Film-Archive-Seminar and Discussion with Harry Chapman 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) A presentation by Harry Chapman on […]
ISLAND HOME COUNTRY18:00 - 20:00 Wednesday 16 September 2015 A film screening and Q&A with director Jeni Thornley Location: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London WC2R 2LS This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required through our Eventbrite page http://thornley.eventbrite.co.uk. Please direct enquiries to […]
LGBT Film Event – ‘Family and Parenting’In partnership with Camden LGBT Forum 18th October 2015 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum FREE, tickets required for each session. You are welcome to join us for one session or for the whole afternoon! Tickets will be available for booking via the website, the ticket office on 020 7323 […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Sibirr and Close to Home – Film Screening ‘Sibirr’ (1989/2000) // Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes // 40min, 16mm, colour, sound; transferred to digital video. ‘Close to Home’ (1982/1987) // Nina Danino // 28min, 16mm, black and white, sound; transferred to digital video. 4pm, Saturday 28th November All Hallows […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Bx46 – Film Screening Directed by Jeremie Brugidou and Fabien Clouette FRANCE, USA / 2013 / 78 min Tuesday 1st December 18:00 – 20:00 Bx46 is an documentary film essay, an exploration of trajectories and routes between three and a half spaces in contemporary New York: the legendary fish market that […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 13 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars Berit Madsen, 2013, 90 mins The film follows the story of Sepideh, a young Iranian who dares to pursue her dream […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 20 January 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS Behind the Screen, Aung Nwai Htway Yangon Film School, 2012, 35 mins Lady of the Lake, Zaw Naing Oo Yangon Film School, 2014, 22 mins Tyres, […]
UPSTAIRS AT THE RAI Tuesday 26 January 7.00pm PICK OF THE FESTIVAL A selection of award winning films from the 2015 edition of the RAI FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM KALANDA - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BUSH Director/Anthropologist: Lorenzo Ferrarini UK / 2014 / 62 min Location: Burkina Faso Language: Jula with English subtitles The […]
