Tag: documentary film
Nick LaLone , October 23rd, 2019
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,…
Chelsea Horton , September 19th, 2019
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…
ukvisualanth , June 13th, 2018
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….
Alice Apley , November 14th, 2017
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…
Kerim , August 1st, 2017
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…
Kerim , July 26th, 2017
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…
Kerim , July 20th, 2017
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…
Haidy Geismar , June 16th, 2016
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…
Kerim , March 14th, 2016
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…
CarolineB , January 18th, 2016
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…
Alisse Waterston with Sebastian Junger , May 9th, 2015
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…