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Johan Grimonprez – Against Documentary

Posted onOctober 8, 2017October 8, 201713,993 Comments

1.Choose a title carefully, since it is the one of the primary framing devices. It should present itself purely as a description of the images contained in the work, but Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Filmmaking, Narrative

Babakiueria

Posted onSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 20175,198 Comments

Here is a great example of satire of ethnography. Suggested by Isabella Normark. Pay attention to the word choices, the way the dialogues are written, the point of view, style Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Narrative, Storytelling, Visual Ethnography

20 ethnographic and documentary films psychological anthropologists should be teaching.

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 20176,165 Comments

20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching

CategoriesDocumentary, Film theory, Filmmaking, Narrative, Storytelling, Visual Ethnography

Visual Ethnography – Statues Also Die, by Chris Marker & Alain Resnais (1953)

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 201710,624 Comments

This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Film theory, Filmmaking, Narrative, Visual EthnographyTagsdecolonial

The birth of documentary – Nanook of the North (1922)

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 20175,908 Comments

Here is an article that describes some of the concepts and ideas behind the documentary Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert Flaherty who spent 2 years among the Inuit Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Filmmaking, Narrative, StorytellingTagsethnography

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