Days of Ethnographic Film

Contact

Dnevi etnografskega filma

http://www.def.si/

info@sed-drustvo.si

Organised byAudiovisual Laboratory, Institute of Slovene Ethnology

Frequencyannual

First organised in 2007, the international Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF) are a non-competitive and specialised happening that brings together scientific research with movie media. This curious crossing of content and media is a joint venture by Slovene Ethnological Society, Slovene Ethnographic Museum and the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts. The festivals director and main organbiser is dr. Naško Križnar, a etc etc.

Background

As etnographic film, with history dating back for at least a century, is a very specialised subgenre of the media and is rarely seen outside the specialised public, the first more abitious public screening event was organised in 2001, when dr. Nadja neki, now also one of the organisers of DEF, put up the first Ethnovideo marathon, showing htthe current production from the past two years. The next few Ethnovideo marathons happened in the years 2004 - 2006 and were already extended to two days because of the vast selection of avaiulable material. The institutions that contributed material were vdiovizualnem laboratoriju ZRC SAZU, Muzeju novejše zgodovine Celje, Goriškem muzeju in SEM; besides them, the second day was posvečen to students films. The differentiation and the place - SEM, laid down the foundation for the next step, the five day international Days of Ethnographic Film.

Programme sections

The festival is always trying to present s balanced selection of international repertoire and local films. Its prefered film length is 40 minutes, which enables the programme to be dynamic and colorfoul representation of the various technical and strategic ways etnographic film can work. Following the templetae set by its precedeesor, the festival presents its screenings in four sections, which our at least partly followed but sometimes also divided into subsections.

The first section is reserved for student films. Some are made during the students faculty studies and can represent the first steps towards serious scientific use of the media, where FF represents the foremost learning poligon. Other are already mature works that vary from microcase studioes to more ambitious, even activistic pristopi.

"Research footage" figures as the second section. It used to also feature visual footage with commenatrie commentaries by the authors and was more of a look into thew work in progress, but has now been widened into a moree sprejemajočo VIsual etnography.

In the context of special programme, focus has till now been given to posamezni authors and researchers (the photographer Stojan Kerbler), to posamezni spatialo contexts (Barcelona) or countries (Slovakia). An additional section posvečena to museums also appeared once.

The last is the main festival programm, unbound by country or theme, examing social tensions, nonmaterial cultural heritage, the social construction of rural and urban spaces. Well over over a hundered filmshave been sceened till now, and each year there are more applicants sending their films and omogočati a diverese and quality presentations of etnographic films.

The Niko Kuret Award

Herta Maurer-Lausegger dr. Boris Kuhar posthumous Andrej O. Župančič ter dosegel vrhunec s podelitvijo nagrade Nika Kureta za zaslužke pri razvoju etnografskega filma in vizualne antropologije v Sloveniji. Današnja etnografska filmska produkcija v Sloveniji je namreč rezultat prizadevanj etnologa Nika Kureta, ki je konec petdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja postavil temelje za znanstveno uporabo filma in bil eden prvih sodelavcev mednarodnega odbora za etnografski film.

Nagrajenca letošnjega festivala sta tako Allison Peters Jablonko, katere mentorica je bila znana ameriška antropologinja Margaret Mead, in Asen Balikci, ki je bil med drugim 11 let predsednik mednarodne komisije za vizualno antropologijo. Obema je skupno to, da sta vizualna antropologa, ki imata za sabo več člankov v znanstvenih glasilih in vodenje Poletne šole vizualnega v Novi Gorici.

• Slovene Ethnological Society
• Slovene Ethnographic Museum
• Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts

External links

• Days of Ethnographic Film website
• Slovene Ethnographic museum website
• Visual Anthropology Network website