Insider Ethnographies

Name: Insider Ethnographies
Start: 2012-03-28T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-03-28T00:00:00+01:00

Insider Ethnographies – West African Visual Anthropologists from the Tromsø masters programme

Film extracts and discussion with by Gary Kildea, Film Supervisor, Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø University, Norway

DJENEBA: A Minyanka woman of southern Mali, by Bata Diallo, 2011
REHE: The Blacksmiths of Mogode, Gamache, by Thomas Kodji, 2009
JUARKE: Boys made men in Mboum society, by Mohamadou Saliou,2010
LAND IS FOOD: Mambay women’s access to land in North Cameroon, by Babette Koultchoumi, 2008

The University of Tromsø, Norway, has long established links with West Africa through Prof. Lisbet Holtedahl the anthropologist and filmmaker who established the Visual Cultural Studies programme almost 20 years ago.

Australian filmmaker Gary Kildea (Trobriand Cricket, Celso & Cora, Koriam’s Law) has been with VCS since 2008. One of the films, Juarke by Mohamadou Saliou was the winner of the Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize at last year’s RAI film festival

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