Here is another sample of the work my students are producing for Beyond Observational Cinema, the course I just finished teaching for the MA in Visual Anthropology. Siôn Marshall-Waters and Jan-Holger Hennies went to the Scottish island of Skye and…
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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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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…
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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. Two student films from our Masters in Visual Anthropology are running…
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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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Jodrell Bank Calling – Abandon Normal Devices/BFI This film was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices as a prelude to their outdoor screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey at Jodrell Bank. Our film reimagines an interview with Bernard Lovell conducted by…
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