MOVIES
Great Britain, 2011, 28 min
Kieran Hanson
28.01.2012 19:15
A decade since Sierra Leone's devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch's ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’, Shooting Freetown follows three people forging their way in film and music in the nation's capital, facing the constant struggles with vision and resourcefulness. By incorporating collaborative video projects, their stories give a fresh image of post-war Freetown - presented to the world through their own lens.
Kieran studied visual anthropology (ethnographic film) MA at Manchester University, carrying out his fieldwork in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Director:Kieran Hanson
Production: Granada centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester
Language of dialogues: English, Krio Language
Language of subtitles: English, Czech
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Hungary, 2011, 8 min
T.Hirt, S.G.Lutherová, S.Novac, K.Varsányi
28.01.2012 15:15
After the end of the Cold War, a lot of army bases in the East Europe became abandoned. Soldiers and their families have left, roaring of fighters has died away, univited guests stopped comming to public places. How do inhabitants of the formerly adjacent villages feel about the stay of Russian soldiers twenty years later?
A short documentary Cold War Neighbours raises a question of how global events are reflected in local conditions. People, who live in the neighbourhood of a huge army base abandoned by the invaders in Hungarian Kunmadarás, talk about what the stay of the soldiers meant for them. And what their absence means for them today.
The film originated in the scope of a workshop “Anthropological Filmmaking” organised at Central European University in summer 2011.
The authors are social anthropologists who are studying or working at various universities in Central Europe. Their common interest is visual anthropology.
Directors: Tomáš Hirt (Czech Republic),Soňa G. Lutherová (Slovak Republic),Sergiu Novac (Romania),Kata Varsányi (Hungary)
Production:Central European University, Maďarsko
Language of dialogues: Hungarian
Language of subtitles: English
Hungary, 2011, 8 min
H. Synková, R. K. Ranjan, J.V. Asis
28.01.2012 14:45
The process of rehabilitation and gentrification in the Eight District of Budapest, Hungary has led to the shrinkage of space especially for children’s play. Set against the backdrop of the world famous novel The Paul Street Boys (Molnár Ferenc, 1906) this film depicts the widening gap between social classes and the reconstruction of the ideas of play, security and leisure.
Ram Krishna Ranjan is a Delhi based freelance documentary filmmaker. He completed masters in Media and Cultural Studies. Currently he is working as a consultant for the Digital Empowerment Foundation, where he documents development projects across India.
Jonnabelle V. Asis is a Erasmus Mundus doctoral exchange student in the Universita' degli Studi di Padova and a Ph.D. Sociology student from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was assistant professor of the Department of Sociology, University of the Philippines Diliman, where she taught courses on Sociology of Mass Communication and Visual Sociology.
Hana Synková is an assistant professor at the department of Social Sciences at Pardubice University and research coordinator at the Agency for Social Inclusion of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. Her research focuses on institutions active in “social integration”.
Directors: H. Synková, R.K. Ranjan, J.V. Asis
Production: Cenral European Univesity, Hungary
Language of dialogues: Hungarian, English
Language of subtitles: English
