Anthropology, Sociology

Documentary and Anthropological Filmmaking

4 July - 22 July, 2011


With the support of the International Visegrad Fund
In Co-operation with the University of Warsaw, faculty of History, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Warsaw, Poland; the Slovak Association of Social Anthropology, Bratislava, Slovakia; and the Checz Association of Social Anthropology, Prague, Czech Republic



"We live in a world of moving images and to communicate our ideas we need to be as fluent in the use of sound and imagery as in the printed or the spoken word".
(Michael Yorke)








INVITATION TO FILM SCREENING

poster
Course Directors:





Core Faculty




Masterclasses




Consultant
Michael Yorke, University College London, Department of Anthropology, UK
Vlad Naumescu, CEU, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Budapest, Hungary


Ben Pollard, InSight - Center for theory and practice of film
Michael Stewart, University College London, Department of Anthropology, UK


Peter Forgacs, Media Artist and Independent Filmmaker, Budapest, Hungary
Nikolaus Geyrhalter, film director and producer


Ibolya Fekete, film editor



Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in anthropological filmmaking in the academia. The visual has become a primary tool for teaching, documenting, analyzing social phenomena but also communicating and engaging with broader audiences. This course enables researchers to use film more consciously and creatively in order to gain a new perspective in their approach to the world and learn to convey their ideas in a new language.

The course provides a state-of-the-art training for social scientists interested in filmmaking. It focuses on cross-cultural ethnographically informed filmmaking, combining an intensive three weeks training in practical filmmaking with discussions on history, genres, ethics and theories of visuality. Taught by academics and film professionals with expertise in visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, the course combines a practical, hands-on camera training with a series of theoretical sessions and masterclasses.




Watch the films that were produced by the participants during the course.


Time to Csángó

Room in the square

Cold War Neighbours

Meat Love

The Speaker

Our Ground

la Caminata