Documentary: Mutiny

“Mutiny” a documentary resource on the Black British West Indian experience of WW1, is now on general release for streaming audiences – beginning with Vimeo on Demand.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/160987

 


A story of WW1 and the Black struggle for pride and freedom. Eyewitness testimonies of veterans, official documents, and archive photos, reveal the incredible story of the British West Indies Regiment.

Over the coming weeks the film will become available on more streaming channels. The organisers will be mounting a comprehensive campaign to let those who have been seeking access to ‘Mutiny’, know that it’s now on release. Any thoughts, advice or indeed requests that can help  bring this resource to the attention of schools and/or other potential interest groups, most welcome contact them through their website: http://www.sweetpatootee.co.uk/

Film Screening and ICON Ethnography Group AGM: "Harvesting Traditional Knowledge"

Tuesday 9th April 2019, 6.45pm - 9pm 

Farringdon Room, St Bride's Foundation, London, UK, EC4Y 8EQ

  

The ICON Ethnography group are delighted to screen the documentary “Harvesting Traditional Knowledge”; a two-way learning project created in 2013-2014 by the Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) alongside Aboriginal Community Art Centres and the Centre for Cultural Material Conservation, University of Melbourne.

   

Produced by Indigenous film crew, Mulka Projects, this documentary follows senior knowledge holders from Aboriginal communities and museum conservators from Australian cultural institutions, as they share the traditional harvesting of bark and ochre, the production of boomerangs and spears and the conservation of Aboriginal artefacts.

   

After the film we will hold our AGM to bring our members up to speed with committee changes and our plans for the coming year. Please join us for the film and stay for the AGM for a chance to catch up with ICON Ethnography Members.

Tickets:

£10 for member

£12 for non-members

Tickets can be booked via eventbrite. 

Further information about the project can be found on the ANKAAA website. 

Call for papers: Symposium – Curating the Global Film Archive

Venue: Moving Image Archive, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow

Date: 28 October 2017

In 2017 Africa in Motion Film Festival collaborates with the Universities of Glasgow and Stirling on a year-long AHRC-funded project entitled Africa’s Lost Classics. This project aims to bring to UK screens some of the greatest African film classics, works that have been neglected or forgotten. Through this project, contact with archivists around the world have led to discoveries of films that were deemed lost, and collaborations with restorers have brought old and decaying film reels back to life. As such, we became newly aware that curators can re(dis)cover old films and transform films’ material deterioration into the cinematic experience the film was made for. By organising, as part of this project, a one-day symposium on curating the global archive, we aim to place African cinema at the centre of the global film archive, while providing a context of worldwide archival curation and research. During the Africa in Motion annual film festival and Black History Month in the UK in October 2017, we are also curating a large exhibition entitled African Film: Looking Back Through the Lens at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. Curated in conjunction with the Africa in Motion film festival and the symposium, this exhibition is motivated by the desire to revive lost histories, spaces and times, and it includes 15 key classic films accompanied by posters, contextual information and film clips. We invite scholars to submit abstracts on topics related to practical and theoretical uses of worldwide film archives, and the relationship between archives and curation. We are interested in the archives of the world: from the Balkans to the Far East, Beirut to Seattle, Cape to Cairo. Without wanting to limit the scope of the symposium or proposed papers, some of the central questions we wish to explore are:

• What is the role of the curator in bringing the archive to life?
• How do archives and film festivals perform as sites of memory and commemoration?
• Can festivals act as archives?
• How do we best access archives if the materiality of film is under threat?
• What has the digital revolution contributed to the preservation of cinema?
• What is the role of the archivist in curating retrospectives?
• How do history and the present enact the discourse between contemporary films and archival footage?
• How do films, archives and the cinema as a public space interact with the present and the future, and what is the archive’s role in preservation and access?

Please send 250-word abstracts and 100-word biographies (including relevant publications) to the conference organisers Dr. Lizelle Bisschoff at and Dr. Stefanie Van de Peer by 31 August 2017. Delegates will be notified of their acceptance by 15 September. We regret we have no funding available for travel or accommodation but delegates will have the opportunity to attend film screenings of restored African Classics at the Africa in Motion film festival (27/10 – 5/11) in Glasgow and/or Edinburgh, and visit the accompanying exhibition.

About the venue:

The Moving Image Archive is Scotland's national collection of moving image located at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. More than 2,000 digitised films are online in the Moving Image Archive catalogue, and a further archive of over 60,000 films about Scotland is being preserved at Kelvin Hall. These archives are accessible by booking an appointment with the manager of the Archive, please see online for more details.

OPEN CITY DOCS FEST: LONDON’S GLOBAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, 17-22 JUNE

On Saturday 21st of June, Open City Docs Fest presents two events from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL).  Currently the talk of the documentary world, SEL work between the factual and poetic, challenging classic ethnography and documentary film. 

To accompany the screening of their most recent feature Manakamana, Open City Docs Fest is also screening a collection of their short films:

‘Shorts: Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab’ (2014), 16:00 Studio 1

An eclectic selection of rarely seen short films produced by artists working within the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab.

Manakamana (2013), 20.30 ICA

Manakamana is the latest work to emerge from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab and is a startling, one-of-a-kind documentary experience.  It is filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car transporting villagers to an ancient mountaintop, temple high above a jungle in Nepal.  Over the course of eleven rides we gain a fascinating and personal insight into the lives and perspectives of these passengers.

Pilgrims riding the cable car up to Manakamana temple

For more details of these two events and for the rest of the festival programme please the Open City Docs Fest website. 

Behind the Scenes at the Horniman - Life in the Kalahari Desert

Hugh Brody, Thursday 1st May 2014. 7pm-8pm. Horniman Museum.

Anthropologist, film-maker and activist Hugh Brody has worked for over a decade with the San people of the Kalahari Desert. At this new Behind the Scenes event, Hugh will guide us through ideas of homeland and the realities of land claims using the Horniman’s wonderful collection of San objects. Hugh will preview some of his most recent filmmaking and let us in on his latest discoveries made alongside the Khomani San. For full details about this event visit the Horniman Museum website. 

13th RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2013

We would like to invite you for the 13th RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2013, held from Thursday 13th June to Sunday 16^th June 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  

The festival is jointly hosted by the National Museums of Scotland and STAR (Scottish Training in Anthropological Research, a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews) and cosponsored by the Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California.

We are pleased to present an inspiring, very international programme of documentaries from around the world; several filmmakers have already confirmed their attendance!

Highlights include:

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 FILMS - shortlisted for various prizes

and special screenings

RAI & BASIL WRIGHT, INTANGIBLE CULTURE (Music - Dance -

Performance), MATERIAL CULTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY, WILEY BLACKWELL STUDENT

Film Prizes screening strands, including Q&A with the filmmakers

NEW OBSERVATIONS, exploring the relationship between art,

anthropology and film

VARIOUS WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS

More information can be found on the festival programme

The programme is now available online - including film descriptions! Have a look around and start planning your days at the RAI FilmFestival!  More information can be found on the festival website.

Please register online:  

Early Bird rates until 15 May! Festival Pass £80; RAI Fellows & Members

£60; Students/Concessions £40; Day Passes £30

Information on how to join the RAI can be found here.

The RAI Film Festival team is looking forward to meeting you in

Edinburgh in June!

Susanne Hammacher

Film Officer | Festival Manager