SANb2004: Exhibiting Anthropology Film and Anthropology: The Visual Challenge · Watch these films and answer ?s: · What is the purpose of the film? · What is the genre? · How do you imagine the film being done? Can you describe the process? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZofuIPbc4w national Geographic documentary (Tribe in Venezuela) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB52yPF1CSA anthropologist made film (Death rituals among tribes in Africa) Conclusion: Film is narrative and informative: the original approach of SAN · What are pros and cons of this approach? ------------------------------------------------------ 2) Experimental film and anthropology What are the changes here? In what do the changes result? What are its pros and cons in this approach? film and photo combined http://dickblau.com/film/ Dick Blau Polish Easter in Chicago ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Working with materiality of the film differently: Info from the text:Robert Asher What are the changes here? In what do the changes result? What are its pros and cons in this approach? Robert Asher Cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmog63TkY1M Cycle (5 min, 1986) Cycle is an animated film based on a non-sacred myth of the Wulamba, a native people of northeastern Australia. The sound track of Cycle is in Wulamba. The narrator assumes familiarity with the myths of his people. He does not tell a myth; rather he indirectly recalls central figures in Wulamba mythology by utilizing poetic devices, particularly the repetition of key words: lotus, evening star, moon, and the name of a clay-pan where past and future events are played out in the present. The images complement but do not illustrate the narration. On the clay-pan, people collect lotus, the roots of which become an evening star. It is here, too, on the pan, that a being, rejecting mortality, changes himself to moon. The horn of light visible at the close of moon's period drops into the sea where it becomes a nautilus shell. The process is a never ending cycle relating people, the spiritual world, and the natural environment. Film as art, not as a documentary: What are the changes here? In what do the changes result? What are its pros and cons in this approach? Gadjo dillo English subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF7-9Vc3B-o Between reality and art – not narration, not illustration – fiction – ability to identify Reality shows : The British Tribe Next Door reality show/Tribal wives reality show Reality show text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxx7XJtceU Interview with Scarlett https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2465226796860341 video – Scarletts body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRVYjU0agU into to the series https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/british-tribe-next-door-channel-4-racist-biases-a9177416.html (anthropologist support article) https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/22/the-british-tribe-next-door-review-why-did-no- one-put-a-stop-to-this (journalist against article) Write intuitively: I would make my story as a film in the following way: ……………..