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Session II: Ethnographic Film Factory – Summer Schools
October 15, 2022 , 10:30 – 12:30
Moderated by Katerina Vesela & Adamma Ezeanyika
Last summer two groups of students from different Swiss universities were busy creating ethnographic short films. The Audio-Visual Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association and the Department of Popular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich each proposed a practical summer school in visual anthropology. In just one and two weeks respectively, the participants gained hands-on experience and experimented with the camera to create works inspired by the topics (Dis)Order and People & Things. This session gives festival attendees the chance not only to watch and discuss the films they produced, but also to learn more about the craft of ethnographic filmmaking, by engaging in conversation with the students and their tutors.
Audio-Visual Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association Summer School
The Audio-Visual Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association proposed its third summer school of visual anthropology. By choosing the title “Beyond Observational Cinema” (MacDougall 1998), the organizers inscribed this practical training week with a twofold purpose. On the one hand, students were invited to look at the legacy of observational cinema as a mode of research in the social sciences. On the other hand, they took a step back from the representational paradigm, examining contemporary experiments that attempt to account for social and cultural processes. In doing so, they produced short films on the theme of People & Things.
Participating students
Adamma Ezeanyika (UZH), Audrey Rosset (UNINE), Filippo Bozzini (UNIL), Jean-Nicolas Rosset (UNIL), Julia Lanz (UNIBE), Nimal Bourloud (UNIBE), Olivia Bianchi (UZH) , Paloma Gude (UNINE), Salome Alvarez (UNINE), Nora Munk (UNINE), Vanesa Bijelic (ZH)
Instructors
Dr. Laura Coppens (University of Bern) Baptiste Aubert (University of Neuchâtel)
External contributor
Heidi Hiltebrand, independent editor and screenwriter (Zürich)
Popular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich Summer School
The use of ethnographic film as a research method has a long tradition at ISEK (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies). The Summer School offered an intensive two-week introduction to this form, taught the basics of technical and artistic approaches, and enabled students to make a short documentary in a small team. The course was practical and hands-on, complemented by regular discussions with participants and lecturers, during which students looked at examples and studied aspects of film theory. The topic of the Summer School 2022 was (Dis)Order.
Participating students
Andrea-Luca Bossard, Arthur Sobrinho, Inken Blum, Jan Kohler, Katerina Vesela, Laura Hardmeier, Lovina Koeing, Naomi Ena Eggli, Tim Hunziker (all UZH)
Instructors
Dr. Brigitte Frizzoni, Managing Director of ISEK Popular Culture Studies and lecturer Daniel Rytz, filmmaker
Rahel Grunder, filmmaker
The students and the instructors Dr. Brigitte Frizzoni, Daniel Rytz, Baptiste Aubert and Dr. Laura Coppens will be present at the festival.
CAV Summer School Films
300 portes et de la patine
Switzerland, 2022
Directed by Nora Munk and Audrey Rosset
By going to meet an antique dealer who is passionate about objects and their history, the two directors question the values defended today by the practice of this profession. Through the atelier, garages and various corners of his brocante, they follow him to the discovery of objects that hold the most indispensable characteristic for an object that has value – the “patina”.
Ghosted (9 min)
Switzerland, 2022
Directed by Paloma Gude, Filippo Bozzini and Nimal Bourloud
Collected, catalogued, and categorized. Sorted and stored. To be displayed in a wooden cabinet or left in the dark to slumber. But can you really contain a spirit or ghost? The present will always be haunted. “Ghosted” explores the imaginaries around objects in the ethnographic museum of Neuchâtel as well as the haunting colonial past of the city in general.
Popular Culture Studies University of Zurich Summer School
Produktionsloch / Production Gap
Switzerland, 2022
Directed by Tim Hunziker and Inken Blum
The clearly structured daily routine of a freelance artist of performing arts turns into unproductiveness, self-pressure, and an exhausting void as soon as the last curtain falls. Production Gap follows actress Johanna Koester on one of her daily rehearsals at the theater, depicts her mental state in the days after a show closes and explores the routines and inevitable (dis-)orders in the field of acting.
Stadtgrün
Switzerland, 2022
Directed by Katerina Vesela and Jan Kohler
How can humans live in urban spaces in the Anthropocene? Are alternative and sustainable ways of life possible in urban areas? The short movie Stadt/Grün (City/Green) explores this question. Two protagonists talk about their ways of taking care of an allotment garden as well as about their organizational systems.
Zeitzeugen
Switzerland, 2022
Directed by Lovina Koenig, Naomi Ena Eggli and Laura Hardmeier
Why is there a vest from the redcross at the collection centre of the Swiss National Museum? And how can a knitted sausage be part of that same collection? This shortfilm allows insight into a collection called “Zeitzeugen” and tells the story of these objects and the people involved with them.
Die Stimme aus dem Off
Switzerland, 2022
Directed by Arthur Sobrinho and Andrea-Luca Bossard
Lea is a sex worker and guides us through the city of Zurich as the narrator of her personal story. She tells us about her experiences in the different spaces of sex work and how it is stigmatized. For once, we listen to a person who is usually only talked about. Her name is Lea. Hers is the voice from OFFscreen.
