General introduction: authorship, praxis, observation, ethnography -- Part I. Histories: ethnographic film in the twentieth century. Introduction -- The long prehistory of ethnographic film -- Travel ...

The Mimesis Documentary Festival will showcase international documentary and ethnographic film works from more than 80 artists at the Dairy Arts Center and the ATLAS Institute from Aug. 4 to 10. An ...

Lina Fruzzetti, a social anthropologist and professor emerita of social science at Brown University, will receive the ...

Writing decades later about his famous 1961 trip to Netherlands New Guinea, Robert Gardner recalled that he “was a lapsed graduate student trying to invent an anthropology that used film and ...

Over the past decade, director Laura Huertas Millán has been working on unique and boundary-pushing documentary projects that subvert and deconstruct the colonized gaze. Born in Colombia, Millán ...

The Smithsonian’s Human Studies Film Archive houses eight million feet of film which can help future generations reflect on the past. Abigail Eisenstadt There are over eight million feet of film in ...

Hendricks-Hodge Expedition (1917-1923). In 1961, the 16mm negatives (XX.02) in this subseries were cut to match the approved, edited File/Work Print (XX.04) of each title; the unspliced Release Print ...

One of my favorite world cinema entries of the Toronto International Film Festival so far is Jayro Bustamante’s first feature “Ixcanul,” a quiet hit in Berlin and Telluride that Kino Lorber scooped up ...

The fourth event in Q Series: LGBTQ Lives on Film will be Small Town Gay Bar. Malcolm Ingram's film portrays one aspect of rural queer life typically associated with urban areas: The gay bar. Focusing ...

Ten years ago this week, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. Thousands of men and women from Fort Hood, an hour north of Austin, were rotated into combat and the subsequent occupation. Upon coming home, ...

Filmmakers can submit anthropological and ethnographic documentaries to this festival. The Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival will take place Aug. 24 - 31 in Armenia. The festival ...