Longer-form pieces written by anthropologists and pertaining to topics in visual anthropology.
(Photo: Lisbet Holtedahl with Susan Whyte by Knud Fischer-Møller) An international ethnographic film seminar in the Ethnographic Exploratory at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 26 June 2025 NAFA, together… Read More »CONTRASTING WORLDS: Lisbet Holtedahl’s ethnographic films and her contribution to the development of visual anthropology
We express our condolences for the passing of Antonio Marazzi, 90 years old, former Chairman of the Commission for Visual Anthropology, IUAES. Active until the last day of his life,… Read More »Obituary: Antonio Marazzi (18th of April 1934 – 13th of February 2025)
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
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