Wanna experience an exc iting event featuring ethnographic films? And to bring the stories of people across the world into your life? Join the Ethnographic Filmda y!
All around the world there are intruiging, unexpected stori es we rarely get to learn about. Ethnographic films offer us an oppor tunity to dive deeper into the perspectives and experiences of people across the globe. In appreciation of this unique ability of ethnogra phic films, and expanding ethnographic inquiry, we present our annual Ethnographic Filmday – to bring the world closer and deepen our un derstanding of it.
About the ethnographic filmday
A yearly visual anthropology event organized by the Department
of Social and Cultural Antropology, VU Amsterdam.
Abo
ut the films
Madre: This is a portrait of a Venezuelan re
fugee living in Brasilia; an intimate look into displacement as an ex
perience of affective (be)longing, rather than just violence. By Tali
ta Carvalho and Pedro Afonso Branco Ramos Pinto.
Intern al Eyes: A short video made by by Jessenia Alli, Embark Limk jaer, Peiyue Zhao, Jirmea van den Heuvel (students of the minor Visua l Evidence).
Working Title: A short video made by Divya Bhulai, Yasha Hennige, Tessa van Leeuwen, Denise Pollack an d Jana Priputena (students of the minor Visual Evidence).
Loo se Ends: During the corona pandemic, a silent disaster occur red in Dutch nursing homes. Nursing home employees saw how elderly pe ople died en masse and abruptly, often without being able to say good bye to their loved ones. Employees faced impossible choices. By Liann e Cremers (ORG, VU).
Letter to a Friend: Lette r to a Friend tells the story of Shan migrants in Thailand fleeing co nflict, repression, and forced military recruitment in neighbouring M yanmar. By Jai Jai and Maaike Matelski (SCA, VU)
Be awa re: Some of the films engage with heavy themes. Attendance i s free, but please sign-up.
DESCRIPTION: All around the world there are intruiging, unexpected sto ries we rarely get to learn about. Ethnographic films offer us an opp ortunity to dive deeper into the perspectives and experiences of peop le across the globe. In appreciation of this unique ability of ethnog raphic films, and expanding ethnographic inquiry, we present our annu al Ethnographic Filmday – to bring the world closer and deepen our understanding of it. About the ethnographic filmday