I am an anthropologist based in Manchester UK, where I teach ethnographic documentary at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester.
A sample of the work my students are producing for Beyond Observational Cinema, the course I teach in the MA in Visual Anthropology. Siôn Marshall-Waters and Jan-Holger Hennies went to the Scottish island of Skye and talked to some of its inhabitants asking them to remember the past and tell stories about the place where they live.
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 at the end of the course. Here is an example from the 2015 course, made by Chao Chang and Sebastian Sommer.
Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush is the main outcome of my audiovisual work on donso hunters in Burkina Faso. The project was conceived during a year of fieldwork for my PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media. In order to study donso hunters,
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