Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 22 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Cinema Travelers by Shirley Abraham Amit Madheshiya, 96 min / 2016 An affectionate but melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the travelling cinema. The huge projector has […]
How do you see me? Screening and discussion with filmmaker Nariman MassoumiTuesday 28 November at 7.00pm EMERGING VOICES SERIES HOW DO YOU SEE ME? Nariman Massoumi UK / 2017 / 30 minutes How do you see me? is a quietly observed documentary portrait of the filmmaker’s mother, Manijeh, an Iranian immigrant who has lived in […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 29 November 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Treasured Moments by Ravi Hart Lloyd 33 min/2016 This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 6 December 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Changa Revisited by Peter Biella Leonard Kamerling 60 min / 2016 This is the story of Tanzania Maasai elder Toreto ole Koisenge and his passage through three decades of cultural […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by SOAS Department of Anthropology & Sociology in conjunction with Royal Anthropological Institute Wednesday 13 December 1pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Kivalina by Gina Abatemarco, 64 min / 2016 More than a hundred miles above the Arctic Circle, an Inupiaq Eskimo community is living on an island that is fast disappearing […]
FILM SCREENING AT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Man who Loved Books (Homage to JR Llobera) Dr Roger Canals, Universitat de Barcelona Wednesday 10 January at 5.30 pm Any personal library is much more than a collection of books, is like material biography, a living archive, a sort of geographical legacy of one's interests, projects […]
Observation and Participation: Rossella Schillaci presents her films Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSATuesday 30 January 6:30PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute Rossella Schillaci, prolific documentary filmmaker and anthropologist trained at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, will present two of her films (Sea Boundary and Ghetto PSA) and speak about the different filmic […]
The Desert Prince – screening and discussion with Howard Reid and Jeremy KeenanTuesday 6 February 6:00PM – 8:00PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute THE WORLD OF GEO SERIES The Desert Prince Director: Howard Reid, 1994. 1995 Best Documentary Golden Gate Award. San Francisco International Film Festival. UK PREMIERE With Director Howard Reid, Series Producer André Singer and Social Anthropologist Jeremy […]
When multilingualism is your mother tongue: the documentary Kanraxël and associated teaching resourcesTuesday 20 February 6:00PM – 8:30PM at the Royal Anthropological Institute On the eve of world mother tongue day, we would like to take you on a journey to Agnack, at tiny village in the south of the West African country of Senegal. […]
Journeys through Colour: experimentation, realism and artifice in non-fiction travel filmTuesday 27 February at 6pm Introduced and chaired by Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London) With Jeffrey Geiger, Jan Faull and Liz Watkins A study of colour in film – its multifarious technologies and practices - offers a way to question a teleological film history […]
What can anthropologists learn from documentary film-art practices 'made in India'?Tuesday 20 March at 6pm Dr Giulia Battaglia, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 This talk will be a reflection about the theoretico-methodological approach of the discipline of social and cultural anthropology and that of filmmaking and art creation with reference to the Indian subcontinent. It […]
Royal Anthropological Institute 15th International Ethnographic Film Festival 23-25 March 2018 at USCLOS ANGELES VENUE sponsored by USC CENTER FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Screenings Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 23-25, 2018. For full details please see the website here.
FILM SCREENING AND TALKAT THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE The Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic Cathy Greenhalgh Tuesday 22 May at 6.30 pm In this talk I will show clips from my films Undercurrent (2001), Aftermath (2006), Switch (2013), Drone (2013) and Cottonopolis (2019 forthcoming). I employ documentary techniques, reflexive essay and meditation, sensory and […]
AFTERMATH: screening and Q&A Friday 2 November at 7.00pm Aftermath 2013 / 91 minutes Directed by Raphael Barth With Simron Jit Singh The Royal Anthropological Institute invites you to the screening of the documentary AFTERMATH, which explores the story of the indigenous Nicobar Islanders after being devastated by the 2004 Tsunami. The film focuses […]
Film screening - Meeting Gorbachev, followed by Q&A with director André Singer Tuesday 6 November at 5.30pm Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Farm boy to President of the USSR; Mikhail Gorbachev helped end the Cold War and enabled the reunification of Germany, only for the Soviet empire to collapse peacefully beneath […]
MA Visual Anthropology Goldsmiths 2018 Screening12 December 2018 2:00 – 9:30PM at the RAI Goldsmiths 2018 MA Visual Anthropology students invite you to a screening of a special selection of short films created as part of their final projects. We believe the future of filmmaking is anthropological and we are excited to show you our […]
Journey to the Maggot Feeder (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 15th January 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free SoMA Edinburgh is proud to present a free film screening of Journey to the Maggot Feeder (2015). This film tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a […]
Fighting for Nothing to Happen & Treasured Moments (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 25th January 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free Fighting for Nothing to Happen After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and […]
Why is Mr W. Laughing? (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 31 January 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Free WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than making a film about inclusion, the film itself was produced inclusively. In an open collaborative journey […]
Mr W. et al: a community event on art & disability (RAI Film Festival Ambassador screening) 9 February 2019, 5:00pm - 11:00pm Free Unit 15 and the RAI FILM FESTIVAL anthropology / ethnography / archaeology will come together this February to bring you a celebratory event about art and disability. The programme will include […]
