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…
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The Affliction Series: an Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Lemelson
Reblogged from Somatosphere: When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how…
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,…
Violence and Intervention: Filmmaker and Anthropologist in a Supportive Role
One of the more difficult areas in doing long-term filming is when your subjects, either because of the conditions of their lives or, more…
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…