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.
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.
The full video of Paul Stoller's lecture "The Burden of Writing the Sorcerer's Burden: Ethnography, Fiction and the Future of Anthropological Expression," which he delivered on 19 April 2016 as part of his visiting Simon professorship in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester.
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.
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 of my notes to reflect on my lived experiences.
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 all around the world.
We are hosting a screening of the Grierson award winning documentary feature The Bengali Detective - an unprecedented look at modern India through the prism of crime. All welcome in John Casken Theatre, 4pm Friday 26th of June. Director Phil Cox will be present for a Q&A session.
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.
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