Workshops
10 November – 5-7 pm – RHB 137a
Anthropology Society hosts 'Lebensraum'
Presentation and Seminar on collaboration between film-maker and anthropologist
A presentation by Rastko Novakovic and Ger Duijzings as part of the International
student ethnographic film festival
Lebensraum is a feature film based on diary entries made by
anthropologist Ger Duijzings in 1992, during his research in
Yugoslavia. The diary was edited into an archive of people, events and
places in dramatic form. On July 28th 2008, Ger Duijzings made a public
reading of the archive whilst walking the streets of London. His
movements were followed and recorded by 9 filmmakers. The collected
material is currently being edited and will form a record of this
public reading presented through a kaleidoscope of images and sounds.
Lebensraum is the result of an ongoing discussion on the production of
social space, witnessing, the archive, anthropology and experimental
cinema. Ger Duijzings and Rastko Novakovic will be presenting the
work-in-progress and will participate in a Q&A. Ger Duijzings is
Reader in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe at SSEES (UCL) and the
author of Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo (2000).
Rastko Novakovic is a filmmaker and MA candidate at the Centre for
Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London. For more info
and to join the discussion, visit: www.rastkonovakovic.org
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12 November – 3-5p.m – Small Hall Cinema
“The role of film-making in anthropology - A Key pedagogical tool?”
How important is it to pass on and share an anthropological tool-kit
to the ''uninitiated''? The two projects this workshop will present
raise the importance of media in the hands of two different youths.
'The Bloody Inheritance' is a fictional film entirely produced and
written by child street workers in Ecuador that explores the very real
aspects of poverty, violence, and family that are everyday aspects of
these young peoples’ lives. The film is a good example of applied
anthropology and youth work; allowing marginalised young people to turn
the camera on themselves.
It will be presented by the initiator of the project, Emily Wood, who
now studies an MA in applied anthropology at Goldsmiths.
The challenge of the second project, a ‘south east London
film-ethnography’ undertaken by students from Greenwich community
college, was to focus on a chosen place in their local community that
the student filmmakers don’t necessary feel a part of. As part of an
insight into anthropology, this project also aimed to transmit
professional skills through this experiment process.
In both cases this highlights and questions the anthropologist’s trace
and effect upon spaces and their inhabitants. Also how can film-making
be used as a pedagogical tool for anthropologists? Most importantly
this will be an opportunity to discuss the role of writing fiction and
documenting reality for some young and other marginalised voices…
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