Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking: transcultural collaboration in research and filmmaking (translatedfrom English by E. V. van Gerven) | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2017. № 3. DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/17/4

Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking: transcultural collaboration in research and filmmaking (translatedfrom English by E. V. van Gerven)

This paper introduces an approach of Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking the author developed by making films together with rural dwellers in Namibia, Botswana and Angola. Grounded in the field of ethnographic filmmaking, it aims at making anthropologically informed films together with groups of people with no previous filmmaking experience. Workshop participants shape the form and content of the film and contribute to its practical making. In this paper, the author explains how such films can be made in a wide range of different settings. Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking gives the participants the possibility to shape their own media image and generates new forms of collaborative knowledge.

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collaborative knowledge, audio-visual ethnography, collaborative research, collaborative filmmaking, participatory filmmaking, ethnographic film, visual anthropology, коллективное знание, аудиовизуальная этнография, совместные исследования, совместное кинопроизводство, включенное кино, этнографический фильм, визуальная антропология

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Gruber Martin	University of Bremen	gruber@uni-bremen.de

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