Collection of interviews with Indian documentary makers.
With a funky graphic interface (this screenshot does not do it justice – click through to the site) – Anand Patwardhan, Shyam Benegal, Paromita Vohra and more: Filed…
With a funky graphic interface (this screenshot does not do it justice – click through to the site) – Anand Patwardhan, Shyam Benegal, Paromita Vohra and more: Filed…
Pretty excited to find parts of the FilmIndia archive online, especially 1948 with a (idiosyncratic) review of Sunny’s Mela (stars Nargis and Dilip Kumar). Also I am quite taken…
Psychedelia is the culture and experiences of psychedelic substances. Where did all the research on psychedelic drugs go? Could psychedelics be used in psychotherapy? How are hallucinogenic drugs…
by Hannah Loosley The sequel to the 50 Shades of Gray film, 50 Shades Darker, came out last Friday, 10th February. The franchise has encouraged people to be…
Still uit de documentaire ‘Down to Earth’ Door Peter Versteeg Het idee dat inheemse volken een wijsheid en spiritualiteit kennen die ‘wij in het westen’ al lang geleden…
by Elisa Sandri ‘As the body moves where then does memory live?’ – Katharya Um For many Cambodians, the wounds of the genocide are still open and hurting.…
Im September 2016 kam der chinesische Film „Red Amnesia“ 闖入者 in die deutschen Kinos. Kurz nach der Aufführung hat SAC mit dem Filmmacher Wang Xiaoshuai王小帅 über seine Werke, sowie den…
Frances Santagate Sutton Going to Minneapolis for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association? Readers of the blog who have never been to Minnesota may be trying…
Vorlesung “Visuelle Anthropologie in Zeiten zunehmender Digitalisierung“, Wintersemester 2016/17, am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Universität Wien Philipp Budka Ziele D…
It’s once again time for us to help your eardrums get some anthropological loving in collaboration with our dear friends, New Books in Anthropology. Below you’ll find a…
Am gearing up for another round of kiddy tv and hoping there are new programmes since the mind worms of Iggle Piggle and Peppa Pig did their damage. This…
Sakolabada is a new town which completely depends on gold mining. Officially, it doesn´t exist, it doesn´t show on any official administrative map. However, in this non-existent town,…
Via Barbara Knorpp, UCL Institute for Archaeology/Museum Studies Photo: Paola Catrica Photo: Paola Catrica Visual Anthropology and the City is a one-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthrop…
I dunno where else to dump this, which will now not be used in a review I was writing on regional film traditions: Yet here is a topic…
Again, I have the pleasure to teach the Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Find below a…
The honored bear’s head (Photo Antti Tenetz) I have visited the Western Siberian Khanty in the vicinity of the oil towns in the Surgut region for twenty years…
The EASA Media Anthropology Network’s panel “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference in Milan (20-23 July, 2016) …
David Beriss University of New Orleans Is it possible that the best food movie ever made is not a food movie? Last fall I was teaching a course…
This very good review by Bruce Williams in Film-Philosophy. of Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2014) Marx at the Movies: Revisiting History, Theory and Practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan.…
Robert Potts is a filmmaker, lecturer, designer, and PhD candidate at the HighWire Centre for Doctoral Training who takes special interest in a diverse range of subjects including shared narr…
by Matthias Teeuwen On Thursday 3 December 2015 the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the VU held its first ever Ethnographic Film Festival. Throughout the day…
A whole day of screenings and discussions with anthropologists and film-makers organised by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Vrije Univer…
Door Marina de Regt “Deze film moet iedereen zien”, was de reactie toen we Time to Look at Girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia afgelopen woensdag aan een…
Jong geleerd…? © Christine Urias, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Myrthe van der Vlis Voor mijn bachelorscriptie deed ik onderzoek naar de rol van gender in de…