Crafting the Moving Image: Documentary, Anthropological, and Ethnographic Perspectives in Pakistan.
Invited tutors
- Dr Michel Tabet, anthropologist, LAS, Collège de France-CNRS-EHESS, Paris
- Haya Fatima Iqbal, Assistant Professor at Habib University, Karachi
- Eléonore Boissinot, producer and filmmaker, Dryades Films, Paris
- Ada Kerserho, Phd candidate in anthropology, CESSMA, University of Paris Cité, Paris
Abstract
The objective of this workshop is to support students in developing documentary film projects at every stage of the creative process and provide them with a space for exchange and reflection. The workshop takes a blended, two-part approach. First, it approaches the arts of the moving image (primarily film and video, but also including multimodal essays, artists’ moving image works, and installation-based media) through the field of visual anthropology. Visual anthropology combines the study of visual representations with empirical methods born of creative visual practices. In its second approach, the workshop seeks to understand the moving image as an object of social practice. It does this by engaging the anthropology of film and looking to the infrastructures, archives, and modes of reception that make the moving image a meaningful part of people’s everyday lives. Case studies will be specifically local in focus, drawing on issues arising from Pakistan’s relationship to film and video, and asking participants to consider what makes the moving image resonant and specific in Pakistani art and public culture. Together, these two approaches will come together to provide a collaborative pedagogic space for participants to present their emerging film projects and think collectively about how they can develop them further.