Air Pressure

By Posted in - on September 15th, 2014 0 Comments

Air Pressure is a collaborative project by Angus Carlyle and Rupert Cox. Begun in 2010, it involved two periods of field work in Narita, Japan to explore the heard world of one farming family whose organic holding is now encircled…

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The Yayas de l’Elegance

By Posted in - on September 8th, 2014 0 Comments

S.A.P.E is the acronym for the Society of Ambience Makers and Elegant People. The followers of this movement call themselves sapeurs, men devoted to elegant dressing. SAPE becomes a performed experience encompassing a world of meanings and symbols. Originally from…

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Hip-Hop, mi desahogo

By Posted in - on May 18th, 2014 0 Comments

Doing time anywhere is tough, but especially in Latin America. The majority of prisoners on the continent have to deal with overcrowding, poor conditions, and there are regular cases of human rights abuses. In the summer of 2013 I was…

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After The Rains Came

By Posted in - on September 5th, 2013 0 Comments

I directed and edited After The Rains Came: Seven short stories about objects and lifeworlds as part of a period of my MA Visual Anthropology ethnographic research among the cow herding Samburu people of Northern Kenya. My original intention had…

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Work and the Environment in Burkina Faso

By Posted in - on August 11th, 2013 0 Comments

Part of my research on hunting in Burkina Faso was necessarily centred on the relationship of the people I studied with their environment. I found myself to understand the importance of agriculture, the fundamental source of subsistence for most villagers…

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Take Me To A Place Outside

By Posted in - on July 22nd, 2013 0 Comments

This project is a phenomenological enquiry into the experience of imprisonment. Drawing on anthropologically informed theories of perception and imagination this film explores the relationship between the real and the unreal, the physical and the imagined, and the in- and…

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