PANELOVÁ DISKUZE - CO JE TO ETNOGRAFICKÝ FILM? / PANEL DISCUSSION - WHAT IS ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM?
ČR, 2013, 150 min
Katedra antropologie ZČU v Plzni
26.01.2013 11:00
Together with experts we will discuss the question of filmmaking in anthropology: What is ethnographic film? How can its ethnographicness be characterized? Is there any difference between ethnographic film and a video documentary from field research? What are the advantages and limits of ethnographic film in comparison with text as a standard medium of academic production?
International guests
Johannes Sjoberg, Granada center, University of Manchester, UK
Jaroslava Panáková, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Sophie Wagner, festival Ethnocineca, University of Vienna, Austria
The language of communication is English.
The film is an attempt to question the ways in which the visual narrative is constructed when using the feedback method. The feedback provided by the people involved (the young performers but also the elders) in the Babaluda Feast, turned out to be very important in offering an insight to the ways in which the Feast was depicted by the visual ethnographer. By recoding the shared visual ethnography, that was arranged in big groups in a large screening rooms, but also in small groups in private houses, the film will try to experiment the ways in which the visual narrative is constructed by looking at, the looked at. The montage method of the film will use a chronotopic montage technique (Bakhtin), in which the time and space unity will be enacted in a visual ethnographic present.
Samuel was born and raised in Cameroon. He grew up in a society where everyone believed in the existence of witchcraft. Every tragedy and evil was caused by a supernatural being. His childhood was marked by belief in witchcraft and its practices. After five years of studying film production abroad, he returned to his country, this time not to visit his family but to unveil the mysteries and secrets of witchcraft and his childhood nightmares. 
