Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide
With a complete documentary film, ethnography, and multi-media interactive study guide contained in one package, the “Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi Touch Film Guide”…
Filmmaking
The State of Visual Anthropology and Multi-Modal Ethnography: A Report from the Screening Scholarship Media Festival 2014 (Part 2 of 2)
(To read Part 1, click here). What Can Multi-modal Ethnography Do? So, to return to the questions of the conference: how can anthropologists tell…
The State of Visual Anthropology and Multi-Modal Ethnography: A Report from the Screening Scholarship Media Festival 2014 (Part 1 of 2)
Earlier this month I braved the lingering polar vortex to head out to the second annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival at the University of…
“Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence” Book Review
The documentary world has been talking about Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing for a while now, and the buzz has grown since the…
Narco Cultura : Drug Culture, Musical Innovation, and Depictions of Violence Onscreen (Film Review)
As we are well into the New Year, I am still finding myself thinking about a film I watched just before the holidays: Narco…
The Digital Revolution and Anthropological Film
Reblogged from Savage Minds: [The following is an invited post by Jay Ruby. Jay has been exploring the relationship between cultures and pictures for the…
Refusing to Look Away: ‘The Act of Killing’ and the Indonesian Genocide of 1965
The following film review of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2013) originally appeared on Anthropology Now. In the mid 1990s I was conducting transcultural psychiatric…
On the unexpected and emergent in ethnographic film — An example from Java
It is not uncommon for anthropologists engaged in long-term, longitudinal, ethnographic research to have their foci and at times basic domain or research area…
Anthropologists vs. Filmmakers: The Personal Perspective of a Commercial Producer
Anthropologists have a strong intellectual background and a radically different way of approaching the filming process and the making of a film than that…
Editing: From Feature Film to Ethnographic Film
It has been almost three years since I started working for Elemental Productions. I have completed three movies as an editor or a co-editor,…
Camera Diaries: Bolex Rex 4
As technology changes at a lightning fast pace here are some foundational lessons that have steered my decision-making for buying the next camera. Bolex…