Posts in the Category: Video

Ten by Ten Awards

By Posted in - Alumni & MA & News & Video on November 21st, 2022 0 Comments

We’re happy to report that Ten by Ten, Jami Bennett’s MA Visual Anthropology graduation film (2021), has been scooping awards and selections at festivals around the world. Like all MAVA students, Jami developed her film project during the whole…

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Isle of Mist

By Posted in - MA & Video on May 19th, 2016 0 Comments

Here is another sample of the work my students are producing for Beyond Observational Cinema, the course I just finished teaching for the MA in Visual Anthropology. Siôn Marshall-Waters and Jan-Holger Hennies went to the Scottish island of Skye and…

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Piccadilly Gardens Visual Essay

By Posted in - MA & Video on December 4th, 2015 0 Comments

Part of the documentary course Beyond Observational Cinema, which I teach in the second semester of the MA in Visual Anthropology, is a lecture on essay films. Students can then choose this form, among many others, for their assessed film…

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“I am Mexico”

By Posted in - MA & Video on September 29th, 2015 0 Comments

For two months this summer, I went back to Mexico City for my fieldwork. Back to the place which already fascinated me three years ago. Now, when writing this, I am back again in Manchester and will put together some…

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Duende. First Fieldnotes

By Posted in - MA & Video on September 26th, 2015 0 Comments

Almost two months ago, I started a project trying to represent what some people understood to be the idea of Duende, a term used in Spanish Flamenco which seems to represent the capacity it has to fascinate and move people…

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