Re: [Frameworks] ethnographic films
I was present at a very interesting discussion after a screening of Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, the film created by Maya Deren's husband Teiji Ito out of her footage of religious ceremonies in Haiti, shot in the late 1940s. The more deeply Deren became involved in Haitian religion, the more she was convinced that making a finished film was not appropriate, which seems to be the reason that she never used the footage herself, and instead wrote a book about the subject. Deren was a person who went into trance very easily, and apparently became possessed at the first Vodou ceremony she attended, despite knowing little about the culture. The Haitians who were present recognized many extremely culturally specific attributes of the spirit who had possessed her, and they decided that she was really Haitian, despite the fact that she was from Russia. They accepted her as a priestess, qualified to hold her own Vodou ceremonies, and she studied the religion in tremendous depth. Her book is fascinating because it brings an artist's perspective, rather than a trained scientist's, to an ethnographic study. Ito's film really does follow many of the external forms of the cliché othering ethnographic film, with its male voice-over narration, although the music, the footage and the information in the film itself are all completely authentic and highly knowledgable. There were about 10 people at the screening, almost all of them white, and one of the viewers was a Haitian woman who was experienced with Vodou. This woman listened intently to the discussion, but didn't want to make her own contribution until the end of the discussion. She was very interested in both the film and the discussion, and took a lot of notes. Almost everyone else in the audience did the exact same collective eye roll and groan you mentioned, and the whole discussion revolved around how terrible it was that Ito had used the footage in this way which objectified and falsified the authentic experience of Haitians. (The fact that Ito was not white did not seem to enter into the discussion.) When the Haitian woman finally joined the discussion at the end, she said that she hadn't felt that the film objectified, falsified, or in any other way distorted her culture or her own experience. On the contrary, she felt that it was completely sympathetic and insightful, and that she had learned a great deal from the film. David Finkelstein da...@lakeivan.org www.lakeivan.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Ethnographic films / studies of The Other
For the new website on Navajo Film Themselves (aka: Through Navaho Eyes) http://www.penn.museum/sites/navajofilmthemselves/ Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film Video PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: milefi...@gmail.com Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.mspresents.com, www.portraitofjason.com, www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, To see or download our 2014 Video Catalog, click here! Support Milestone Film on Facebook and Twitter! On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: Ethnographic films, more Thanks to everyone contributing to this interesting thread. Some further thoughts from my own teaching and research and mediamaking: There’s a very long history of visual representations of The Other that predates cinema. Slide shows of exotic places and peoples were common in the 19th century combining entertainment and edification. A trip to “The Holy Land” was a perennial favorite. As a kid I saw a quick sketch artist do this sort of thing in a church setting, so it probably predates photography. It’s probably useful to be aware that there’s an overlap but sometimes a difference between “anthropological film” and “ethnographic film” by understanding ethnography as a form of investigation that is also used by sociologists, cultural analyists, etc., not just people in the field of anthro. There’s a very well developed discussion in the field of Visual Anthropology over the past 30 years or so. If you have access to a university library, it’s worth some time browsing the shelves for that category, and the journals. Sol Worth and John Adair’s Through Navaho Eyes—a classic, giving the camera to the people to make their own films Scott Macdonald, American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), Outstanding book on the Harvard/MIT works of Gardner, Marshall, Pincus, etc. Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Culture Reader. Excellent collection of pertinent essays. Catherine Russell, Experimental Ethnography All the works of Trinh (already mentioned) Jim Lane, Autobiographical Documentary in America (mostly on straight white guys, but there’s also a very interesting development of autobiography in feminist and gay movement media) Barbach and Taylor, Cross-cultural Filmmaking Taylor, Visualizing Theory Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines) by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial AtlanticMay 28, 2012 by Robert Stam and Ella Shohat The links to colonialism and imperialism have been dramatically underlined by more recent research and criticism. I’d suggest: Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema by José B. Capino. Almost all the cinematic record of Philippine life as a US colony was made by Americans and ended up in the US. This young scholar recovered these lost records for the native audience. For an outstanding critique of Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss: Jyotsna Kapur, “The Art of Ethnographic Film and the Politics of Protesting Modernity: Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss. Visual Anthropology, vol 9, 167-185. And some work worth viewing again and thinking about: Basil Wright, Song of Ceylon Kubelka’s Our Trip to Africa TV and video ranging from: Anthony Bourdain food/travel reality format shows (CNN, Food Channel, Travel Channel) (and along the same lines, Andrew Zimmer’s shows on bizarre foods) Lonely Planet and other hipster travel docs, usually featuring a physically appealing young (blond) visitor to the developing world’s more exotic locations Gonzo porn visits to foreign brothels Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Ethnographic films / studies of The Other
Ethnographic films, more Thanks to everyone contributing to this interesting thread. Some further thoughts from my own teaching and research and mediamaking: There’s a very long history of visual representations of The Other that predates cinema. Slide shows of exotic places and peoples were common in the 19th century combining entertainment and edification. A trip to “The Holy Land” was a perennial favorite. As a kid I saw a quick sketch artist do this sort of thing in a church setting, so it probably predates photography. It’s probably useful to be aware that there’s an overlap but sometimes a difference between “anthropological film” and “ethnographic film” by understanding ethnography as a form of investigation that is also used by sociologists, cultural analyists, etc., not just people in the field of anthro. There’s a very well developed discussion in the field of Visual Anthropology over the past 30 years or so. If you have access to a university library, it’s worth some time browsing the shelves for that category, and the journals. Sol Worth and John Adair’s Through Navaho Eyes—a classic, giving the camera to the people to make their own films Scott Macdonald, American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), Outstanding book on the Harvard/MIT works of Gardner, Marshall, Pincus, etc. Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Culture Reader. Excellent collection of pertinent essays. Catherine Russell, Experimental Ethnography All the works of Trinh (already mentioned) Jim Lane, Autobiographical Documentary in America (mostly on straight white guys, but there’s also a very interesting development of autobiography in feminist and gay movement media) Barbach and Taylor, Cross-cultural Filmmaking Taylor, Visualizing Theory Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines) by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial AtlanticMay 28, 2012 by Robert Stam and Ella Shohat The links to colonialism and imperialism have been dramatically underlined by more recent research and criticism. I’d suggest: Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema by José B. Capino. Almost all the cinematic record of Philippine life as a US colony was made by Americans and ended up in the US. This young scholar recovered these lost records for the native audience. For an outstanding critique of Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss: Jyotsna Kapur, “The Art of Ethnographic Film and the Politics of Protesting Modernity: Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss. Visual Anthropology, vol 9, 167-185. And some work worth viewing again and thinking about: Basil Wright, Song of Ceylon Kubelka’s Our Trip to Africa TV and video ranging from: Anthony Bourdain food/travel reality format shows (CNN, Food Channel, Travel Channel) (and along the same lines, Andrew Zimmer’s shows on bizarre foods) Lonely Planet and other hipster travel docs, usually featuring a physically appealing young (blond) visitor to the developing world’s more exotic locations Gonzo porn visits to foreign brothels Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] G3 BW Neg and Reversal processing
Dearest frameworkers, I am looking for information regarding processing times/winds for G3-style tanks. I am going through some later today I am not finding a whole lot of specific info out there. I am mostly processing Fomapan 100 D8 and OWRO UN54 in 100' (30m) batches in a G3 tank. I'm using D-76 (sans Potassium Thiocyanate) and a home-mixed Sulfuric Acid + Potassium Dichromate bleach. I mostly just need to know the approximate number of winds for the 1st dev, bleach and 2nd dev. It seems as though some keep the developer at a higher temp (74-78), but mine will likely be around 70F. Thanks! Christopher ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
