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Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Series (1990)

Posted onSeptember 12, 2018September 17, 201811,989 Comments

CategoriesGender, Narrative, PhotographyTagsblack women photographers, contemporary photography

Film analysis of La Jetée

Posted onSeptember 5, 201812,431 Comments

Here is a really good analysis of La Jetée! Chris Marker’s La Jetee Analysis: Mortality and the Illusion of Time  

CategoriesNarrative, Photography, StorytellingTagschris marker, la jetee

Screenplay Format Guide

Posted onOctober 25, 2017September 1, 201912,044 Comments

To help you with the screenplay writing, Download and study this guide:  http://www.storysense.com/SPFormat.pdf  

CategoriesCourse material, Narrative, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Video Production

Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories

Posted onOctober 8, 2017October 9, 201711,935 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories (A bit like Syd Field‘s rules for screenplays) 1. Use the time of a total stranger [your viewer] in such a way that he Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, Storytelling

Johan Grimonprez – Against Documentary

Posted onOctober 8, 2017October 8, 201713,858 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

Business and storytelling – could be useful

Posted onSeptember 26, 20179,464 Comments

Storytelling has become a top-of-mind issue in recent times, as technology has democratized the power to share our stories with the world. The fact that it continues to be a Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, Storytelling

Babakiueria

Posted onSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 20175,130 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, 20175,990 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, 201710,345 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, 20175,819 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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