Brian Moser obituary

Documentary-maker whose films for the series Disappearing World told the stories of remote communities under threat

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/apr/03/brian-moser-obituary

#VisualAnthropology #Documentary #RIP

Heading to #Ethnografilm in Paris, which kicks tomorrow =>

https://www.ethnografilm.com/

Are any #VisualAnthropology #Anthrodons heading there too?

#EthnographicFilm #EthnographicFilmmaking

#Workshop

Hands On Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh

with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha

(running for 45 days! A reasonable time frame to *actually* film something 😉 )

05 June –16 July 2023

https://filminstitute.auroville.org/2023/02/16/hands-on-documentary-film-workshop-ladakh/

#VisualAnthropology #DocumentaryFilmmaking #EthnographicFilmmaking

Sarah Pink's (@pinkydigital) keynote speech at the #RAI Film Festival Conference titled:

*Design Anthropological Filmmaking*

... is available as a FB stream =>

https://www.facebook.com/discover.anthropology/videos/236061262096716/

#VisualAnthropology #Anthrodon #EthnographicFilmmaking

The application period for the master course in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices @ University of Münster starting in autumn 2023 is open!

Deadline: 31/03/2023

http://www.wwu-weiterbildung.de/anthropology

#MediaAnthropology #VisualAnthropology #Documentary #EthnographicFilm #EthnographicFilmmaking

Leviathan

...a breakthrough documentary by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel was released in theatres 10 years ago yesterday.

You can watch it on Kanopy =>
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/5432377

#Documentary #VisualAnthropology #SensoryAnthropology #SensoryEthnography #SensoryDocumentary

#Anthrodons interested in #VisualAnthropology and #EthnographicFilm

Don't miss the 10 main competition films at #raiff23.

The best in contemporary, anthropological non-fiction cinema are competing for the festival's RAI Film Prize and Basil Wright Prize.

Starting already this Friday (03/03)!

https://festival.raifilm.org.uk/collection/main-competition1/

I only belatedly realized that I now have my own article I can use when teaching my lecture on "What is ethnographic film?" And you know what, it isn't a bad article. Far more readable than I remembered it being.

#VisualAnthropology #Ethnography #EthnographicFilm #Teaching #Anthropology

#PhDFellowship

SVA/Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellowships

Powered by The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) and the Robert Lemelson Foundation (Lemelson)

"[It provides] graduate students working in the field of visual and multimodal anthropology with funding to pursue exploratory research for and/or methods training to prepare for their doctoral dissertation research. "

Deadline: 07/04/2023

https://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/awards/sva-rlf-fellowship

#VisualAnthropology #MultimodalAnthropology

#EthnographicPhotography : An #Interview with Camilo Leon-Quijano

Camilo Leon-Quijano’s “Why do ‘Good’ Pictures Matter in Anthropology?” explores the ethnographic use of photography and visual representation in anthropology. This post highlights his theoretical contribution to the field of #VisualAnthropology and ethnographic methods, as well as his fieldsite engagement in Sarcelles, a French #banlieue (a suburban community) in the North of #Paris.

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/ethnographic-photography-supplemental-materials

#AcademicJob

Lecturer in Designing Audio Experiences

@UCL

"This posts sits within the Public Anthropology section which is home to several projects in the world of documentary and aims to nurture the next generation of filmmakers, audio producers and VR creators through postgraduate degree programmes, an annual film festival, the bi-annual Non-Fiction journal and other events throughout the year"

Deadline: 03/03/2023

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWU289/lecturer-in-designing-audio-experiences

#VisualAnthropology #SoundStudies

FILMWERKSTATT 2023 (powered by Ethnocineca)

a 12-day workshop in Vienna on #EthnographicFilmmaking and #VisualAnthropology

The main course language is German

Event dates: April 26th – May 7th 2023

Deadline: 05/03/2023

http://www.ethnocineca.at/en/festival/filmwerkstatt/

#AcademicJob

Two-year #PostDoc Position in Audiovisual Anthropology

@ IDEMEC Lab, Aix-en-Provence, France

"The person recruited will be attached to the A*Midex Chair of Excellence project developed at AMU - IDEMEC which is working on ‘Alternative narrative forms in Audiovisual Anthropology’. This Chair focuses on anthropological and cinematographic research on non-western forms of narration and on new ethnographic forms."

Deadline: 28/04/2023

https://academicpositions.fr/ad/aix-marseille-universite/2023/two-year-post-doc-position-in-audiovisual-anthropology-co-funded-by-a-midex/194427

#VisualAnthropology

Selection of films for reviews by the Anthropology Book Forum (powered by the #AAA)

https://anthrobookforum.americananthro.org/films/

#VisualAnthropology #EthnographicFilm

#CFP

Dastavezi | The Audio-Visual South Asia

"Dastavezi the Audio-Visual South Asia is an international peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, which seeks to reposition the audio-visual as a central mode of knowing and thinking about South Asia."

Deadline: 15/03/2023

https://networks.h-net.org/node/15531/discussions/12295159/dastavezi-audio-visual-south-asia-journal

#VisualAnthropology, #Anthropology, #ArtHistory, #VisualStudies, #Film, #FilmHistory, #SouthAsianStudies

#AcademicJob

Assistant Professor in #SocialAnthropology

@ University of Birmingham

"The successful candidate will have regional expertise outside sub-Saharan Africa and a sub-disciplinary specialism that broadens our coverage, e.g. #DigitalAnthropology, #MedicalAnthropology, #AnthropologyOfHeritage and #Decolonisation, #VisualAnthropology, #MultispeciesAnthropology, #AnthropologyOfDevelopment, #AnthropologyOfEnergy and #ClimateChange"

Deadline: 26/02/2023

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWO699/assistant-professor-in-social-anthropology

#Anthrodon

Amazing resource!

THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA (powered by the Media City Film Festival)

has just released a collection of 60+ films by indigenous artists.

https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/thousandsuns-cinema/

You can watch them online for free from today until 30/01/2023.

#VisualAnthropology #ThirdCinema #IndigenousCinema

#NewIssue

Visual Anthropology Review (fall 2022)

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15487458/0/0

(some articles still in production, some already there as #OpenAccess)

#VisualAnthropology

#NewIssue

Anthrovision: Visual Essays in Post-Digital Habitats

https://doi.org/10.4000/anthrovision.4276

#VisualAnthropology #OpenAccess

Three #postdoc positions in an #ERC project in #Lisbon entitled: "Afterlives of Development Interventions in Eastern Africa" led by Dr. Yonatan Gez.

#anthropology #DevelopmentStudies #Africa #recruitment #EasternAfrica #space #mobility #VisualAnthropology #storytelling

cc: @anthropology https://cei.iscte-iul.pt/2022/10/3-open-calls-for-postdoctoral-contract-associated-with-erc-starting-grant-afdevlives/