This interdisciplinary PhD project invites applicants to explore the inner lifeworlds of individuals living with Motor Neurone Disease through innovative ethnographic, participatory, and co-creative methods.
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.
For the past month and a half all I have been doing is thinking about my film; what shots will work, what questions I should answer, how should I frame my subjects. I met up with the people who will participate in my film a few times over this past month in order to get to know them.
The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology will screen three documentary films in competition at the Royal Anthropological Institute's International Festival of Ethnographic Film, from 16 to 19 June 2015.
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, followed by an in-person Q+A with the director.
The Man who almost Killed Himself is a new play and multi-media experience premiering at The Edinburgh Festival, on the BBC and at ODEON Cinemas around the country. A collaboration between theatre director Josh Azouz and Andrew Irving, the Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, produced by Hibrow TV.
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