Visual Anthropology

The following texts are part of my master’s course “Key Debates in Visual Anthropology “ as position papers. Through them you can witness my slow descend into madness as I am trying to confine abstract theoretical and cinematic approaches in 500 words.

[and I don’t always succeed]

Painting over black and white photographs:
Is this what the ethnographer does?

A comparative analysis of the films: Dead Birds by Robert Gardner (1964),
Reassemblage by Trinh T. Minh-ha (1982), and Photo Wallahs
by David and Judith MacDougall (1992).

Dismantling the Colonial Matrix of Power:

Is indigenous media / community-based film-making the end of ethnographic film ?

Scrambling the hierarchy of the senses:

the horizon and potential of sensory ethnography