Viscult 2004: Lecture Series and Workshop
Joensuu, 5th and 6th of October 2004
On 5th and 6th of October the Festival of Visual Culture will host a lecture series and workshop for documentary filmmakers and advanced students. The participating lecturers represent the top anthropological and ethnographic filmmakers and theorists in the world.
Participation fee: 50 €, students 25 €. The
fee includes both days.
Registrations: Pekka.silvennoinen@netmail.fi
or jari.kupiainen@ncp.fi
For more information: North Karelian Regional Film Association
Tel. +358 13 288515, gsm +358 40 7236413
Lectures and workshop are held in English.
Lectures on 5th of October:
12.00-18.00 Joensuu University (Yliopistokatu 7, Natura-rakennus, Sali
B1)
PhD
Janos Tari: History of Ethnographic filmmaking in Hungary
Janos Tari is the head of the Ethnographic Film Studio and Archive at
the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography. He has been making documentary films
since 1979 and was awarded the Margaret Mead Film Festival special prize
for his documentary, As far as Makó from Jerusalem in 1992.
Professor Colette Piault: Speech Relationship in Social
Documentary Film
The way we record and restitute the other's speech is central in the relation
to the other. Speech restitution being tied to the development of sound
recording, there are technical steps. However, at the same technical step
correspond different speech processings, according to other choices linked
to ideological decisions (in a wide meaning) like ideas, commercial constraints,
dogmas, etc....
Through examples from documentary films, mainly chosen in the field of
anthropology (8 extracts, 35'), we will follow the evolution of the speech
processing and restitution, and its consequences on the relationship to
others.
Professor Colette Piault has conducted fieldwork in West Africa, France
and Greece. She made her first film, Albertine et Dorcas, in the Ivory
Coast in 1966 (released in 1972), while simultanously working on a different
ethnographic project under the direction of Jean Rouch. In 1985 she founded
Société Française d’Anthropologie Visuelle
and served as its first president. She has been a member of the selection
committees for the ethnographic film festivals at Göttingen and Nuoro.
Presently, she works as Director of Research for CNRS (Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris, France. In 2002, Professor Piault
was chosen as the Honorary Member of NAFA at the Festival of Visual Culture
in Joensuu.
Professori
Peter Biella: Maasai Interactive: A Case Study in Digital Visual Anthropology
Peter Biella is the President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and
directs the Program in Visual Anthropology at San Francisco State University.
Biella's lecture/demonstration will present features of his multimedia
production, Maasai Interactive. It seeks to broaden the contribution of
visual anthropology by providing material that will do more than provide
a forum for the ethnographer’s interpretations.
Workshop on 6th of October:
10.00 – 17.00 Joensuu Science Park, Room L205/6
Professori
Asen Balikci: My Conception of Ethnographic Film
The anthropologist and filmmaker, Asen Balikci has been an innovator in
the field of ethnographic film and film in education for many years. He
is the author of numerous publications on visual anthropology. He was
co-chairman of the Program in Ethnographic Film (PIEF), from 1966-1968,
chairman of the Commission on Visual Anthropology, from 1983-1993, associate
editor of Visual Anthropology (1986-1993), and editor of CVA Review (1986-1993).
Among various academic positions Balikci held a chair as a professor of
Anthropology at the Université de Montréal from which he
retired in 1994. When he retired from his academic post, he moved back
to his home country of Bulgaria to apply his media skills to facilitate
communication and education both inside and outside the country.
Events are organised by:
North Karelian Regional Film Association
North Karelian Polytechnic