Arctic Hunters – The Netsilik Inuit Monday 4 November at 6pm. Royal Anthropological Institute This classic ethnographic series reveals the lived reality of traditional Inuit life before European acculturation. The ‘Netsilik Eskimos’ of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic, had long lived apart from other people and had depended entirely on animals, land […]
A Kalahari Family Tuesday 5 November at 6pm. Royal Anthropological Institute What do animals mean to the changing realities of former hunter-gatherer communities? Certain challenges faced by these communities in relation to National Park politics, conservation and tourism projects will be discussed using John Marshall’s, classical ethnographic film series ‘A Kalahari Family’ that documents 50 […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 13 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song Christy Garland, 71 mins, Guyana The Bastard, using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana where […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 20 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Delhi at Eleven Ravi Shivhare, Anshu Singh, Aniket Kumar Kashyap, Shikha Kumar Dalsus, David MacDougall, 82 mins, 2013, India/Australia This film presents the work of four young […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 27 November Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh Barley Norton, 56 mins, 2010, Vietnam This film follows the challenges faced by the controversial Vietnamese band Lam Linh, while […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 4 December Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Himself He Cooks Valérie Berteau, Phillipe Witjes, 65 mins, 2011, India/Belgium In the Golden Temple in Amritsar hundreds of volunteers prepare 100,000 free meals every day. The spontaneous […]
Ethnographic Film SeriesOrganised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 11 December Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Tracks Across Sand – Overture & Aftermath Hugh Brody, 30/52 mins, 2013, South Africa For the San living within South Africa, the apartheid regime meant a final eviction […]
LGBT Film Day: MusicIn Partnership with LGBT Camden Forum Sunday 16 February 2013, 10.45 – 17.30 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum 14.00 - 15.45 Mirror Mirror Director/anthropologist: Zemirah Moffat 58 minutes, 2006 ‘Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 13th International Ethnographic Film Festival 7th-9th March 2014 at USC LOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. All screenings at Seeley G. Mudd Hall on USC campus. Click here to VIEW pdf festival schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT WARNING): RAI_USCCVA_filmfest_schedule Friday 7-10pm Premiere: THE ACT OF KILLING (director's cut […]
Monday, 7 April, 5.30pm Film Screening 'Under the Palace Wall' (2014, 53 mins) followed by Q&A with David MacDougall. The RAI Film Committee is pleased to welcome Prof David MacDougall (ANU) for the presentation and discussion of his latest film 'Under the Palace Wall'. Under the Palace Wall David MacDougall 53 minutes, 2014 […]
Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 13 May, 6pm PHOTO WALLAHS 60 minutes, 1991, Filmmakers: David and Judith MacDougall The film is set in Mussoorie, a famous hill station in northern India, which has attracted […]
Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 20 May, 6pm, FUTURE REMEMBRANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE ARTS IN GHANA 54 minutes, 1998, Filmmaker/ Anthropologists: Tobias Wendl, Nancy du Plessis The film portrays a vibrant range of […]
Films on ‘Anthropology & Photography’In relation to our Conference (29-31 May) the RAI is organizing a series of Upstairs @ the RAI screenings Tuesday 27 May, 6pm THE ART OF REGRET 60 mins, 2007, Filmmaker: Judith MacDougall, Anthropologist: Kathy Zhang Photography is known in China as the “Art of Regret”. In the rapidly […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday, 3rd July 2014, 6.30 pmPost-cinematic Ethnography: Miyarrka Media's Christmas Birrimbirr (Christmas Spirit) Anthropologist and filmmaker, Jennifer Deger, will show and discuss recent experiments with multi-screen installation in galleries and museums. Collaboratively produced by a team of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous performers and filmmakers in Australia’s North East Arnhem Land, Christmas Birrimbirr […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Tuesday 21st October, 2014, 6pm The Persistence of the ‘Observational Method’ in Ethnographic Film Film extracts and discussion with Gary Kildea Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Referring to excerpts from his own films (Trobriand Cricket, Celso & Cora, Koriam’s Law) and some from the Visual […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday 31 October, 2014, 5pmMemorialising and Commemorating the Dead in Mexico City: A critical look at the Mexican Day of the Dead Research Seminar followed by some tasters with Dr Marcel Reyes-Cortez, Goldsmiths, University of London In Mexico City, the dead are very present in popular culture and are manifested in […]
Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. SHE-RIVER (la Fiuma) Rosella Schillaci, 2008, 67 mins She-River is an anthropological documentary exploring the River Po (Northern Italy) and its surrounding and people. A journey with […]
Cinematic cartographies –Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. THE LAST NAVIGATOR Colour, 50 minutes, 1989 Q&A with filmmaker and anthropologist: André Singer This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator […]
Cinematic cartographies – Capturing spatial knowledge in film. These ESRC Festival of Social Science evening screenings will explore the role of film in spatial knowledge exchange and visual ethnographies. FILM, MOBILITY AND URBAN SPACE. A cinematic ethnography of London A selection of short archive films from the London Screen Archives collection. discussant tbc This event […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Monday 8 December 2014, 5.30pmThe Guga Hunters of Ness (2010, 59 minutes) Screening and Q&A with Director Mike Day 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) Ness is the last place in the UK […]
