Opinion

Longer-form pieces written by anthropologists and pertaining to topics in visual anthropology.

The passing of a maker of film-makers, or was he a shoe-maker? A tribute to Colin Young

December 3, 2021December 15, 2021
by Peter I. Crawford
All Blog, Opinion, Vol 28.4 - December 2021

In 1923 Dziga Vertov was flattered to be labelled a ‘shoe-maker’ rather than an ‘Artist of Soviet Cinema’. He knew that documentary film-makers “must be more aware that the boot… Read More »The passing of a maker of film-makers, or was he a shoe-maker? A tribute to Colin Young

GIEFF 2020 – Impressions from an online film festival

June 15, 2020April 1, 2021
by Kathinka Frøystad
All Blog, Opinion

In May 2020 many of our readers were supposed to have been in Göttingen to attend the biannual German International Ethnographic Film Festival (GIEFF). But two months earlier, the corona… Read More »GIEFF 2020 – Impressions from an online film festival