ISEFF 2010 ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL - CONSTRUCTING BONDS -
2nd-5th March 2010 / Social/Visual interventionism within social-sciences
Examining the Potential for Anthropological Advocacy - Website: www.iseff.co.uk

CALL FOR A PARTICIPATORY EVALUATIVE RESEARCH ON THE STATE OF ANTHROPOLOGY INTERNATIONALLY

'' Give us a chance to get a sense of what anthropology means in your region both at the society and academic level ''
Send us your films and check out our website for additional infos about our call for submission and expected thematics.

Be an ISEFF correspondant and track down Ethnographic films at your regional level.
Your collaboration is most appreciated ! The ISEFF 2010 Film festival is operating its content through participatory relays. The ''ISEFF correspondants'' (International Anthropology societies, anthropology students..) in the five corners of the world are assigned to part in an evaluative research on the state of anthropology. Regional collaborators are ascribed to distill out overarching thematic at stake amongst local anthropological film production.
We put an emphasis on the sense of urgency anthropology summons in its research at the regional level.

* The festival room invites student think of (visual) anthropology as an interventionist discipline that help grasping urgent needs, society requires.
* The festival looks at urging issues international anthropologies ought to grapple with and scrutinizes current fashions of anthropology all over the world.
* This through the eyes of anthropology students, our direct relays. The bedrock of our motives lies in our will to sensitize students' sense of historicity and agency as aspiring anthropologist.

The festival focuses particularly upon the difficulties entailed by anthropological film production and dissemination - what is the 'use' of ethnographc film? How and for whom is it produced? We consider notion of the afterlife of the anthropological gesture on the terrain and look for vivid impact assessment of it. Thus the Festival arena fosters re-thinking the role of ethnographic film as applied and as public visual anthropology. By extolling those interventionist practices as a new key strand, we invite you to engage with the future terrain of Visual Anthropology.

We encourage a diverse audience of anthropologists and non-anthropologist from academia, public realms, civil society.
Film screenings shall be accompanied by a panel discussion and a Q&A with film directors.


THEMES OF ENTRY


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'' ANY FILMS Anthropology related ''

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'' Social interventionism and Visual interventionism within ethnographic/documentary films"
Towards an applied ethnographic filmmaking intentionality engaging with social interventions.

Films shall develop visual ethnography methodologies for use in applied research, including using video as an exploratory collaborative research methods when working with audiovisual media in social intervention projects across ''public, corporate, Ngo contexts''.

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''SHARED ANTHROPOLOGY : Screening back of the ethnographic film with its subjects/participants''
Towards impact assessment of filmmaking with its targeted audience, inducing societal-cultural negotiation and confrontation.

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''Death, yesterday, today, tomorrow. What is it ?''
Filming / Querying of death and its surrounding phenomenologies, cosmologies, rituals, metaphysics...


Categories : Documentary, Ethnographic film, Artist film
Accepted fromats : DVD only
Maximum Legth : 30 minutes
Please include a ID: synopsis, name of director/s and year of production

A 100 pounds award is offered for a selected film of outstanding achievement from each evening

THANK YOUR FOR YOUR HELP - Send us your films to
Goldsmiths Anthropology Department Address:
Department of Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW