Wanna experience an exciting event featuring ethnographic films? And to bring the stories of people across the world into your life? Join the Ethnographic Fil mday!
All around the world there are intruiging, unexpecte d stories we rarely get to learn about. Ethnographic films offer us a n opportunity to dive deeper into the perspectives and experiences of people across the globe. In appreciation of this unique ability of e thnographic films, and expanding ethnographic inquiry, we present our annual Ethnographic Filmday – to bring the world closer and deepen our understanding of it.
About the ethnographic filmda
y
A yearly visual anthropology event organized by the Dep
artment of Social and Cultural Antropology, VU Amsterdam.
Madre: This is a portrait of a Venezu
elan refugee living in Brasilia; an intimate look into displacement a
s an experience of affective (be)longing, rather than just violence.
By Talita Carvalho and Pedro Afonso Branco Ramos Pinto.
Internal Eyes: A short video made by by Jessenia Alli, Emba rk Limkjaer, Peiyue Zhao, Jirmea van den Heuvel (students of the mino r Visual Evidence).
Working Title: A short vid eo made by Divya Bhulai, Yasha Hennige, Tessa van Leeuwen, Denise Pol lack and Jana Priputena (students of the minor Visual Evidence).
< p>Lukochuri: Documentary film on stories of sexualit y of Bangladeshi women that they simultaneously hide and seek amidst social pressure and stigma. By Nasrin Siraj and Ellen Bal.Letter to a Friend : Letter to a Friend tells the story of Shan migrants in Thailand fle eing conflict, repression, and forced military recruitment in neighbo uring Myanmar. By Jai Jai and Maaike Matelski (SCA, VU)
Be aware: Some of the films engage with heavy themes. Atten dance is free, but please sign-up.
DESCRIPTION: Wanna experience an exciting event featuring ethnographic films? And to bring the stories of people across the world into your life? Join the Ethnographic Filmday! All around the world there are intruiging, unexpected stories we rarely get to learn about. Ethnogra phic films offer us an opportunity to dive deeper into the perspectiv es and experiences of people across the globe. In appreciation of thi s unique ability of ethnographic films, and expanding ethnographic in quiry, we present our annual Ethnographic Filmday – to bring the wo rld closer and deepen our understanding of it.About the ethno graphic filmday