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Athens Ethnogrraphic Film Festival
The 3rd Athens Ethnographic Film Festival has finished – and we are very happy to be saying this – with great success. A success that is highlighted by the audience turnout, which honestly exceeded our expectations, but also by the positive feedback for the films of the festival.
For yet another year the wide-ranging audience embraced and boosted this effort, and the festival can argue a powerful case for its existence, not only within the framework of the scientific or academic field, but within a wider context as well.
Thus, we would like to thank all the filmmakers who sent us their films, especially Yannis Drinis, Silas Michalakas, Fotini Stefani, Dimitris Prousalis and Luca Di Meo who visited the festival, presented their films in person and spoke with the audience. A special thank you to Exile Room and Valerie Kontakos and Despina Pavlaki – the warm and welcoming space they have created was instrumental to the festival’s success.
Last but not least, a huge thank you to all those who honoured us with their presence during these two days, as well as for the feedback which they shared with us in order to help along our effort.
We renew our date for 2013.
Dear Friends,
Here you can find the official programme and the timetable of the festival, short synopsis of the films and the official poster.
For more information:
Konstantinos Aivaliotis – Nikos Sfakianakis Tel.: +30 210 6544917 / 6945104788 Email: info@ethnofest.gr/ ethnofest@gmail.com*Admission: Free
There will be only English subtitles in the films.
Screenings start at 17:00
3rd Athens Ethnographic Film Festival
30th November & 1st December 2012
The third Ethnographic Film Festival of Athens will open its gates on the 30th of November at Exile Room.
This year there will be four sections in the festival:
The known of the Students’ films, Panorama, and Tribute and final we introduce the section of Special Screenings where we will introduce films which are still works in progress or showcase the virtues of the ethnographic cinema, without technically belonging to the genre.
As this year’s thematic tribute, the Athens Ethnographic Festival programme decided to present some of the movies that are most representative of contemporary trends of Argentine ethnographic cinema.
In the current socioeconomic context of Greece, the images of Argentina that we receive through the media are mainly related to the country’s economic and political history, framed in terms of crisis. In this sense, this first look into local ethnographic cinema is imperative, as it allows us to broaden our perspective on Argentina’s historical and sociocultural wealth and on the discussion of contemporary trends in the production of anthropological knowledge.
The tribute to the Argentine Ethnographic Cinema examines the geographic and thematic diversity of this vast country, through the eyes of four anthropologists and filmmakers who are the leading exponents in the field of visual anthropology. Social and historical memory, time and its chronicling, indigenous peoples and endangered languages are the main focus of their documentaries, oriented towards social and political issues through local ethnographic approaches.
The anthropologists and filmmakers Konstantina Bousmpoura and Julia M. Heimann, who live and work in Buenos Aires, are the curators of the programme which includes the works of anthropologists dedicated to academic activities at Universities of Buenos Aires such as Soledad Torres Agüero, Carlos Masotta, Paulo Campano and Carmen Guarini.
The festival would like to thank the directors who shared with us their work and also the curators who have made possible this ‘unusual’ anthropological connection between Greece and Argentina.
Finally, a big thanks to the supporter of the festival Exile Films
For more information:
Konstantinos Aivaliotis – Nikos Sfakianakis
Tel.: +30 210 6544917 / 6945104788
Email: info@ethnofest.gr/ ethnofest@gmail.com
http://www.ethnofest.gr
Exile Room
12 Athinas St,
3rd Floor,
Monastiraki (opposite the Metro Stop)
Tel: 210-3223395
*Admission: Free
There will be only English subtitles in the films.
Screenings start at 17:00
Dear Friends,
Even though last yearwe wrote that we will try to keep the dates of the festival in the beginning of every November, some reasons are forcing us to change it and move to the end of the month.
So, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival would like to announce that its 3rd edition will take place the 30th of November and the 1st of December in Exile Room.
Also as the date for the submissions has passed almost two weeks now, we would like to thank all the filmmakers, the production and distribution companies and of course all the universities that send us their films every year. The selection process has already started and by the end of the summer we will start announcing the programme along with the tributes of this year’s edition.
We would like to thank the supporter of the festival, Exile Films and Exile Room.
The Ethnographic Film Festival of Athens continues the exploration to the anthropological world through the image and for this year we are looking for films made by anthropologists (or related background), including students’ works -either as dissertations or as assignments- In addition we welcome films made by professional filmmakers or film students who had a collaboration with anthropologists or/and social scientists.
This ethnographic festival doesn’t have a competitive section but through its 3 main sections (Student’s Films, Panorama and Tributes) is aiming to look at the contemporary tendencies of visual anthropology but also at the roots of today’s directions. During the festival there will be open discussions and presentations where we hope to engage in a dialogue on / with the future of ethnographic film and visual anthropology.
The festival addresses a wide audience, and it is an event where ethnographic films directed by anthropologists, by professional filmmakers or by students, are seen together in a combined programme.
Two copies of the films should be submitted in DVD format, containing English sub-titles and they should be accompanied by the participation form (sent via e-mail) in the address below.
The deadline for films submission is the 15th of July.
e-mail: info@ethnofest.gr
The address – for the films to be sent – is:
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival
P.O.BOX 66009
155 01 Holargos
Questions and prior notice for submissions should be directed to info@ethnofest.gr or ethnofest@gmail.com
Today begins the 9th panorama of ecofilms where 2 of the films from our water tribute will be screened.
these are:
– She River, Encounters by the river Po and surrounding by Rossela Schillaci and
– Traditional Water Management Among the Stromi Village People by Nicholas Sfakianakis
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Σήμερα στο 9ο Πανόραμα Οικολογικών Ταινιών θα προβληθούν τα εθνογραφικά φιλμ που παρουσιάσαμε στο αφιέρωμα μας για το Νερό.
Είναι οι ταινίες:
– She River: Συναντήσεις γύρω από τον Ποταμό Πάδο, της Rossela Schillaci και
– H Παραδοσιακή Διαχείριση των Υδάτων στο χωριό Στρώμη, του Νίκου Σφακιανάκη
news for the Afghan Box Camera Project
(from their kickstarter website)
Update #4: 14 DAYS TO GO!
With 103 backers so far and having gone beyond our initial goal, we’re putting all our effort right now into getting to PESHAWAR, Pakistan to get an insight into the lives of the Afghan photographers who lived there as refugees. And if we manage that any more funds go to hiring extra assistants in Afghanistan to research in small towns around the country. Meanwhile, the British Journal of Photography is going to run a feature on the project in April and we’re also going to exhibit our work (with a box camera of course) at the Ethnology Museum Munich in their upcoming Afghanistan exhibition in October. The project is moving forward. We hope all the way to Peshawar!
Best,
Lukas & Sean
‘Observational realism is an approach which is probably with us to stay, in the sense that it is likely to be rediscovered afresh by each generation of ethnographic documentarists.’ (Loizos, 1999)
for more here:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/aroundLSE/archives/2012/peterloizos.aspx
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