Chronicles of Sireniki': A view from Estonia
The article describes the making of the ethnographic film 'Chronicles of Sireniki' (1990). It explains how the world-renowned Canadian visual anthropologist Asen Balikci ended up in a small Eskimo village in the north-eastern corner of Siberia with a team of Estonian filmmakers at the end of the Soviet era, and how they made a film which, before it was forgotten, was shown at ethnographic film festivals and on television around the world. The article is based on a series of interviews with the people who participated in the filmmaking process and is an attempt to reconstruct the story behind the making of the film almost 30 years after. The main source for the article is an interview with Estonian filmmaker Arvo Iho, who was the cameraman and director of the film.
Keywords
visual anthropology,
ethnographic film,
Yupik Eskimos,
Chukotka,
Asen Balikci,
Arvo IhoAuthors
| Niglas Liivo | University of Tartu | liivon@gmail.com |
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