On Wednesday 8 March 2017 Roger Canals, visual anthropologist at the University of Barcelona, will present his latest documentary on the transnational cult of María Lionza in Barcelona. The screening will start at 5pm in room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Building,…
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The students of our MA in Visual Anthropology flagship programme are about to graduate. The event screening and exhibiting their works is one of the highlights of the year. Join us at The Wonder Inn on 21, 22 and 23…
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Granada Centre graduate Yasmin Fedda (MAVA, 2004) will be returning to Manchester tomorrow (Wednesday May 4th) to screen her documentary Queens of Syria at Home, which will be followed by a Q&A with the director. The film, which premiered last…
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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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A special screening of Don Boyd’s documentary Andrew and Jeremy Get Married which was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for best British Documentary, at 5pm in the Cordingley theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building on Wednesday February the 18th.…
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Kevin Dalton-Johnson is a British international artist who explores his African and Jamaican diasporic identity through clay. His sculptures can be considered as griots, West African historians or storytellers, repositories of oral tradition. Like many others living nowadays with the…
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