You Should Watch Secrets of Blackmoor: On the Utility of Oral History
I have recently been digging into the history of computational thinking for other projects and published an excerpt of that work over at Analog Game Studies. That article,…
Tag: documentary film
Language Lessons
A documentary film shows the challenges faced by Soli children as they learn in a language that is not their own. But does the future have to be…
Transparencies Report
Introduction TRANSPARENCIES 2018 celebrated the creativity and initiative of our students, how they gave of themselves and collaborated to be able to realise the films they wanted.…
On the Matter of Film
Original negatives for John Marshall’s Pittsburgh Police Series, labeled “COPS.” Photo by Frank Aveni. As film making and viewing increasingly become identified with digital media — storage in…
Ethnographic Films: A Family of Resemblances
This is the third post in my series on the definition of “ethnographic film.” In the first post I laid out the basic approach I am using: one…
The Four Dimensions of Ethnographic Films
In my last post I argued that rather than choosing between overly narrow (“closed”) or overly broad (“open”) definitions of ethnographic film, it would be better to follow…
Do we even need to define ethnographic film?
Before this year I never felt the need to come up with a clear definition for what counts as an “ethnographic film.” Constructing better pigeonholes only seems to…
Care on Display
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths College Thursday 23 June 2016 06:30pm – 08:30pm, Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic fi…
Filming Empathy – Part 1
In their essay “Whatever Happened to Empathy?” Hollan and Throop1 cite the ambivalence that Franz Boas felt about the usefulness of the concept for ethnography: On the one…
‘Silence is golden/but my eyes still see’: Award winning documentary ‘The Silence of the Flies’
In December 2015 the School of Anthropology and Conservation was privileged to welcome alumnus Gonzalo Chacon for a screening and discussion of the award winning documentary ‘The Silence…
Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol, A Dialogue
End of the freight tracks, Connellsville, PA. From left to right: Brendan O’Byrne, Guillermo Cervera, Sebastian Junger and Rudy Valdez. Photo by Mariah Rehmet, courtesy of HBO. War…