3.-4.3.2020
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

UNITY: DRESS-SCAPE OF ACCRA

Ghana, Nizozemí, 2016, 36 min
Mara Lin Visser
04.03.2020 17:45

Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra is an ethnographic film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. The comeback of African print seems to be emerging in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity of tailor-made fashion and hybrid styles; the ways the African wear is used and the expression of culture by wearing the African prints. The film highlights beautiful details by focusing on a few participants who show the mixture of different materials, cuts and styles in a creative and free atmosphere. In this way the film is not only observational, it gives people space to tell their story and show they are proud of the African wear. 

Mara Lin Visser is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. She discovered filmmaking during the production of documentary on material culture in Volendam for her MA Visual Anthropology. The medium of film gives her the freedom to express herself, her thoughts about certain topics and academic observations in a natural way. For her film is the perfect way to explore the broad subject of material culture. With this in mind she decided to do her fieldwork in Ghana, which resulted in the film 'Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra'. She is interested in queer rights, participation society, material culture, fashion, geopolitics and art. 

Director, Camera, production, Edit, Script: Mara Lin Visser

Language of Dialogues: English, languages Ga and Twi
Language of Subtitles: Czech, English

Launching of the movie (selection):
RAI Film festival in Bristol, Great Britain; Ethnografilm, Paris, France; Ethnocineca Vienna, Austria;  Kratovo Ethnographic film Festival in Macedonia; Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival (SVAFMF); Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/205078498

TURISTOU VE VLASTNÍM DOMĚ

Česká republika, 2009, 38 min
Jaroslava Panáková
04.03.2020 10:00

In the far, far North, where the day begins and the oceans meet, a small hamlet New Chaplino is situated. The goverment decided to turn the village into a tourist resort. It is winter, 30 degrees Celsius below zero. The tourists are not coming. There are only few memories of them and the snow has already covered their footprints. The village people live in the cardoard houses. They are waiting for the tourists and dancing. It is only Vika, their country fellow, who is coming to visit her native village after she has spent few years in the city. Thus all villagers keep waiting for the tourists and dancing...

Director: Jaroslava Panáková

The Director Jaroslava Panáková was born in Martin, Slovakia. She graduated in social anthropology at St.Peterburg State University, Russia and in documentary cinema at FAMU, Prague, Czech republic. She is currently working at the research institute in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Production: Pavla Kubečková Company, FAMU
Camera: Georgij Bagdasarov
Edit: Libor Alexa
Award: Tococu Lisabon 2010
Language of dialoques: Rusiain, Chukchi
Language of subtitles: Czech, English

REFLEXE STAVU VIZUÁLNÍ ANTROPOLOGIE V ČR A SR

Česká republika, 2020, 120 min
Katedra sociální a kulturní antropologie FF UPa
04.03.2020 13:00

Discussion about visual anthropology in Czech and Slovak republic. Guests are Zuzana Beňušková, Tomáš Hirt, Tomáš Petráň, Michal Pavlásek, Pavel Borecký a Milan Durňak and Lívia Šavelková.