BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Regard Bleu - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://regardbleu.ch X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Regard Bleu REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T161500 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T172909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T172911Z UID:1202-1742139000-1742141700@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Closing Panel: Festival Practice as Reflective Space DESCRIPTION:Discussion with the Festival Coordination Team Regard Bleu 2025 \n\n\n\nModerated by Nimal Bourloud\, Arctic Voices & ciné liminal\, University Bern \n\n\n\nTogether\, we have journeyed from entering to closing (the) spaces. However\, these spaces we have encountered over three inspirational days of exploring and discussing ethnographic film and its contents never truly close – they remain open. We invite you to join us at our closing event: a panel discussion featuring the student festival coordination team. As a team\, we strive to make our process of organizing an ethnographic film festival transparent and to engage in critical discussions. We aim to present festival practice as a reflective space for everyone and\, thus\, to contribute to decolonisation processes as well. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/closing-panel-festival-practice-as-reflective-space/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T151500 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T172650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T172651Z UID:1197-1742133600-1742138100@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session VII: Non-Spaces DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Maria Hansen & Meret Namaï Weiss \n\n\n\nFinally\, we will delve into non-spaces: places that do not yet exist\, that remain unseen or need to be created. These films explore different aspects of non-spaces: personal and social boundaries\, identity and (in)visibility. They tell of resistance\, self-empowerment and the struggle for visibility. Afterwards\, the closing panel invites us to reflect on the festival as a space of the in-between\, a place of dialogue and participation where we can support the creation of these new spaces through film. \n\n\n\nThe Quietness is Fake (28 min)\n\n\n\nNetherlands\, 2024\, English / English sub. Directed by Melia Martha Josefine Weltzien \n\n\n\nHow much harm has been done by not talking about it? How much more by speaking about it irresponsibly? And why is the burden of breaking the silence so often placed on the survivors themselves? The Quietness is Fake is an intimate and thought-provoking exploration of the unspoken and often unspeakable experiences of sexual violence. In this experimental ethnographic film\, the filmmaker enters deep conversations and creative collaborations with artists who actively question the harmful silence\, and re-claim their personal experiences of sexual violence through their art. The filmmaker encourages the audience to listen to survivors’ voices and to reflect on the pervasive silence\, discomfort and taboos that often accompany discussions of sexual violence. \n\n\n\n‘The Quietness is Fake gently addresses the process of healing\, which rarely leaves the intimate space of the survivors\, due to the social and cultural stigma associated with it. The film challenges this silence\, by displaying the pain\, solidarity\, and personal growth many survivors experience\, creating a space for public discourse. It respectfully casts a light where society has cast a shadow. The film is a feminist reflection on the socialization of many survivors to remain silent\, reminding us that we can and should create spaces to dispose of stigma’ – Miri Rizvi. \n\n\n\nMelia Martha Josefine Weltzien’s film is part of her Master’s thesis at the University of Amsterdam. \n\n\n\nContent warning: sexual violence\, trauma. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEndometriosis: Chronically Invisible (9 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022\, German / English sub. Directed by Lynn Kohli \n\n\n\nWhat happens when we enter a space of undone science? This film invites you to enter a field in which research is desperately needed but left undone. Men report on women’s experiences with endometriosis. Changing their perspectives leads to irritation and finally lets us recognize gender-based discrimination as a cause for this lack of knowledge: if endometriosis were a man’s disease\, there would probably be much more knowledge about it! \n\n\n\n‘In just nine minutes\, Kohli successfully presents a complex topic in a concise and effective way. Her film is both a scientific reflection and a committed call for more research and awareness in medicine. It is brilliant how she deliberately creates irritation and provocation with the choice of means of her filmmaking’ – Frederik Güntensperger. \n\n\n\nLynn Kohli is aStudent of Social Anthropology and Political Science at the University of Zurich. This film was part of her Bachelor’s thesis. \n\n\n\nContent warning: medical issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe Drink Water from the Same River (9 min)\n\n\n\nAzerbaijan\, Russian Federation\, 2021\, English / English sub. Directed by Sofia Melikova \n\n\n\nWe Drink Water from The Same River is based on filmmaker Melikova’s personal story of being an Indigenous Female artist from a traditional patriarchal community\, where her profession is considered a nonsense.The film is a documentary story woven from Melikova’s dreams\, envisioning that performative practices will overcome societal stigma and restrictions. \n\n\n\nSofia Melikova is a multidisciplinary artist\, filmmaker\, and human rights activist based in St. Petersburg\, born into an ethnic Azerbaijanian Tsakhur family. This film was created at the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum Art Residency Programme. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-vii-non-spaces/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T172329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T172330Z UID:1191-1742122800-1742130000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session VI: Spaces of Care DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Milena Fischer & Fabiana Merz Enriquez \n\n\n\nThese three films tend to physical\, emotional and social spaces\, where healing\, support and connection occur\, hence\, to spaces of care. They explore the many ways care is embodied\, practiced\, and experienced within different environments throughout everyday life\, and how we create and navigate these spaces. \n\n\n\nBabini Devetini (39 min)\n\n\n\nBulgaria\, 2024\, Bulgarian / English sub. Directed by Daniell Tahor\, Ana-Mariya Georgieva \n\n\n\nRemembering the past with the elderly residents of a Northwestern village in Bulgaria entails a generational contemplation of the future. Following the pace of everyday practices and conversations\, this film observes local\, visible and invisible\, political\, social and environmental changes. Seeking to bridge the gap between the city and the village\, the modern and traditional\, the local and the global\, two friends apply hope to the act of storytelling. \n\n\n\n‘Babini Devetini is a must-see. It reminds us of life’s incredible worth and its profound fragility in the age of multiple societal and environmental crises\, climate change being only one of them. But especially it calls for the recognition of how important it is to feel deeply rooted in our surroundings\, because after all\, they not only constitute our means of existence but also our home. Once you’ve seen the film\, I can guarantee that you’ll tend to what is most precious to you’ – Fabiana Merz Enriquez. \n\n\n\nDaniell Tahor studied at the University of Amsterdam where she filmed Babini Devetini as part of her Master’s thesis in November 2024\, together with her friend Ana-Mariya Georgieva. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrossroads (17 min)\n\n\n\nChile\, 2024\, Spanish / English sub. Directed by Laura Heinig\, Karla Riebartsch\, Lion Durst\, Leonie Morgenstern \n\n\n\nStreet vendors in Valparaíso\, Chile\, break through the hustle and bustle with their stories. Adelina and Juan have been there for decades. They offer their goods\, shouting passionately. Retirement is not possible. Fear and warmth\, stark political views alongside loyalty. A portrait of four graceful people who enliven and rhythmize a street corner. A microscopic image of an intersection offering an insight into Chile that inspires us to look at every street corner. \n\n\n\n‘These crossroads stories capture the essence of these people’s spaces through film. Crossroads intertwines the themes of care\, work\, and infrastructure\, and lets the audience delve into intergenerational spaces that bind together various temporalities – past\, present\, and future. Some elderly street vendors have been in this area for decades\, so they become a part of the place or\, eventually\, the place itself. Their stories are testimonies\, windows into broader societal and political change in Chile’ – Milena Fischer. \n\n\n\nLaura Heinig (directing class)\, Karla Riebartsch (animation)\, Leonie Morgenstern (journalistic film)and Lion Durst (script writing) directed the film as a team. They are all students at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. During the ‘Miradas Cruzadas’ exchange programme\, they had the chance to travel to Valparaíso\, Chile. \n\n\n\nContent warning:dead animals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Co-Blind (38 min)\n\n\n\nPhilippines\, 2023\, English / English sub. Directed by Masato Ushimaru \n\n\n\nThis ethnographic film explores the logic of care in visually-impaired communities in Baguio\, the Northern Philippines. The film critically rethinks the dichotomy of caregiver and care receiver that is assumed and discussed by traditional academia. It illustrates how the process of care emerges as generative and variable relationships of reciprocal help between individuals\, and as the form of numerous communities that overlap and entangle with each other in complex ways at the organizational level. \n\n\n\nMasato Ushimaru holds a Bachelor’s of Social Sciences from Hitotsubashi\, Japan\, and a Master of Science in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus\, Denmark. Our Co-Blind is part of his Master’s thesis. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-vi-spaces-of-care/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250316T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T172022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T145640Z UID:1188-1742119200-1742144400@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:SPECIAL PROGRAMME: Workshop II - Capturing the Space DESCRIPTION:A Hands-On Workshop on Space in Filmmaking and Multimodal Production\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Mike PoltorakCo-organized with Saada ElabedLocation: Seminar Room \n\n\n\nThis workshop examines the role of space as both a subject and collaborator in filmmaking and multimodal works. Central to the workshop is the exploration of ‘liminal spaces’: those in-between realms where the familiar meets the unknown\, where uncertainty and discovery coexist. How can the act of filming a space reveal its emotional and historical depth? How do filmmakers negotiate their gaze and responsibility when representing spaces shaped by movement\, absence\, or change? \n\n\n\nThrough practical exercises\, discussions\, and excerpt screenings\, participants will explore how spaces inspire\, irritate\, and incite creativity. The workshop encourages you to engage with the concepts of space – formal\, informal\, situated\, or imagined – as a living archive. An archive that carries layers of memory\, transformation\, and significance. \n\n\n\nLimited space registration mandatory\, visit www.regardbleu.ch for more information (if you are really keen to participate\, you can also contact us at festivaloffice@regardbleu.ch after the registration deadline). \n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator\n\n\n\nNews: Unfortunately\, Tobi Akinde is unable to join us\, and we truly regret his absence. However\, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Mike Poltorak\, who will be stepping in to lead the workshop. We look forward to an engaging and insightful session with him! \n\n\n\nMike Poltorak\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMike Poltorak is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, medical/visual anthropologist\, and impact designer who explores social and planetary health through teaching\, ethnographic film\, and transmedia. His documentaries\, emerging from long-term community engagement\, include Fun(d)raising: The Secret of Tongan Comedy (2010)\, One Week West of Molkom (2013)\, and Five Ways In (2014). His latest film\, The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019)\, won the SVA Best Feature Film Award (2020) and screened at 14 global festivals. He has taught visual\, social\, and medical anthropology at Sussex\, Kent\, UCL\, and Zurich universities\, earning multiple teaching awards. As an impact designer\, he worked with the Films for Future Festival in Zurich and is developing a documentary on fishing\, community\, and climate change on Lake Zurich. He is a Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University\, producing a documentary on trust in medicine and land in Fiji\, and Co-President of the SAA Interface Commission. He holds a PhD from UCL (2002). \n\n\n\nTobi Akinde\n\n\n\nTobi Akinde is a Nigerian filmmaker and independent film curator currently based in New Orleans. In 2020 he co-founded the Monangambee Film Foundation\, a nomadic pan-African microcinema in Lagos\, Nigeria\, and has curated films for the Goethe-Institut Nigeria and the African Studies Book Club at the University of Cambridge. His most recent documentary work as a cinematographer\, Coconut Head Generation (2023)\, won the Jury Grand Prix at Cinema du Reel\, Paris\, and has screened at New Directors\, New Films at MoMA\, New York\, BlackStar Film Festival\, Philadelphia\, the Geneva International Film Festival\, and Forum on Human Rights\, amongst others. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/special-programme-workshop-ii-capturing-the-space/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T213000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T171740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T183140Z UID:1183-1742068800-1742074200@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session V: Embracing Spaces DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Amir Mommartz & Ella Poniatowski \n\n\n\nThe screening and Q&As will be followed by a discussion with the curators and willing participants from the audience. \n\n\n\nWith Saturday’s final session we aim to leave a mark on the viewers’ senses. Whether it be in a society\, mind\, or body\, embracing a space often necessitates adjustment. But is it yourself\, or the space around you\, that needs adjusting? This session consists of three films that address resistance and journeys of becoming. To resist in love\, to act with conviction\, and to remember with pride are such facets of embracement. \n\n\n\nMarked (11 min)\n\n\n\nGreece\, 2023\, French\, Korean\, Modern Greek / English sub. Directed by Yoline Bourdon\, Chang-hyun Choi\, Konstantinos Giatras \n\n\n\nWhat do boundaries mean when life is not set in stone? At the intersection of freedom and memory\, two marked bodies are walking ‘like thieves’ through the lines imposed by society. This film is an embodied journey of life in-between\, or at the edge. It mirrors the filmmakers’ interests in migration and queer issues\, sensory experiences of urban spaces and seemingly insurmountable boundaries. \n\n\n\nChang-hyun Choi is an activist\, anthropologist\, and documentary filmmaker based in South Korea. Konstantinos Giatras studies Balkan\, Slavic\, and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia. Yoline Bourdon studies Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University. \n\n\n\nContent warning: scars\, discrimination. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the Wake of Remembering (19 min)\n\n\n\nUnited Kingdom\, 2024\, English / English sub. Directed by Sara Saini \n\n\n\nThree women unearth and reflect on their memories of witnessing and supporting the Burnsall Strike\, a 1992 workers’ resistance movement that was led by Punjabi women in Smethwick\, Birmingham. From within their memories another voice emerges – reflecting the past and bringing the women’s experience in from the street to the domestic and personal. Together\, the voices attempt to reconstruct the forgotten wholeness of the lives of South Asian women\, against the political and social backdrop of the UK. \n\n\n\n‘It is a story born out of exploitation\, racism\, and the necessity for change. The resistance that followed was formed through perseverance and solidarity – qualities that are shown to be inherently tied to the protagonists’ gender and Punjabi heritage. The movement allowed them to embrace the public space. The importance of language is emphasized\, as said in the film: Punjabi\, ‘the language of the home\, now suddenly it was the language of the public space’. A space that still holds many of the same barriers’ – Amir Mommartz. \n\n\n\nSara Saini earned her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts\, majoring in Film\, from the Srishti Institute of Art\, Design and Technology in Bangalore in 2018. She is currently pursuing her MA in Directing Documentary at the National Film and Television School\, London. \n\n\n\nContent warning: migration\, exploitation\, racism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocus Cordis (20 min)\n\n\n\nBelgium\, Syrian Arab Republic\, 2022\, Arabic / English sub. Directed by Alhasan Yousef \n\n\n\nConquered by Israel in 1967\, the Syrian Golan has a military border running through it\, which families ‘cross’ by shouting to their loved ones. From his European exile\, anxiety-ridden Alhasan Yousef attempts to break free from his inner isolation with this exploration of the power of sound\, in an effort to reconnect with his lost country from afar. \n\n\n\n‘Locus Cordis invites viewers into the filmmaker’s personal struggle with sentiments of loss and separation. The short film serves as an excellent exploration of the different ways a person can feel (dis)connectedness\, as well as the effects of distance and sound on one’s body. It’s a creative act of reclaiming the spaces of loss’ – Ella Poniatowski. \n\n\n\nAlhasan Yousef is a Syrian filmmaker and photographer based in Brussels. He holds a Bachelor’s in Audiovisuals from the Lebanese University\, Beirut\, and a Master’s in Documentary Film Directing from the DocNomads Programme in Portugal\, Hungary and Belgium. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-v-embracing-spaces/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T190000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T171435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T171436Z UID:1178-1742059800-1742065200@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session IV: Lost Spaces DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Miri Rizvi & Hannah Eileen Grobet \n\n\n\nWhat happens when home\, people and landscapes are no longer within reach? Through personal and courageous examinations of loss\, these films explore what it means to navigate spaces that have changed or vanished – whether through forced movement\, colonialism\, war or environmental disasters. Can one re-enter them through memories\, digital realms\, melodies or artistic creation? Each film approaches the topic of loss in a unique way and shows how loss shapes identity and evokes the need to make sense of one’s altered history. \n\n\n\nI Love You More (17 min)\n\n\n\nNetherlands\, 2023\, Arabic / English sub. Directed by Nour Alkheder \n\n\n\nThis film gives insights into Nour’s journey to recognizing her longing for her father and Syria\, where she confronts loss and the emotional impact of absence. Her film I Love You More is about tangible nostalgia. Her authentic work explores deep human emotions and shows people at their most honest. She approaches subjects intimately and emotionally\, by balancing documentary reality with fiction. \n\n\n\nNour Alkheder graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2024. \n\n\n\nContent warning: war. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSongs of Duolan (20 min)\n\n\n\nGeorgia\, 2024\, Russian\, Yakut / English sub. Directed by Sakhamin Trofimov \n\n\n\nWhen military mobilization began in Russia\, Duolan left Yakutia for Georgia. He turned his apartment into a small kitchen to make a living selling sushi. In Batumi\, where little reminds him of home\, Duolan searches for something that might bring back the feeling of his homeland – in the local landscapes\, people\, signs\, and even animals. Sometimes\, he plays Yakut songs and sings along\, hoping to at least mentally transport himself back to the place he left behind. \n\n\n\nSakhamin Trofimov is a documentary filmmaker and producer from Yakutia (Republic of Sakha\, Russia). In 2020\, he graduated from the Docdocdoc School of Documentary Photography in St. Petersburg. In 2024\, he graduated from the Un/Filmed Documentary School in the USA. \n\n\n\nContent warning: dead animals\, animals’ blood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Memory of Glitch (28 min)\n\n\n\nUnited States\, 2023\, English / English sub. Directed by Suzanne Elizabeth Schaaf  \n\n\n\nThe Memory of Glitch explores the entanglements of smoke and pixels\, trees and humans\, loss and recovery. When the filmmaker dives into a burnt forest in Oregon\, US\, memory and place begin to unravel. Her voice shares personal reflections on loss while glimpses of bare soil\, rock formations and mountains form new horizons. A montage of found footage\, Google Maps explorations\, and material recorded during fieldwork form a new narrative. In the film the researcher applies forensics of memory and image. She plays with the idea of fiction and reality\, and questions our relationship with the on- and offline environments we inhabit. \n\n\n\n‘With a final immersion in the virtual world\, Schaaf challenges the audience to engage with the construction of space and memory. What do we consider worth remembering? When is a memory captured? Is a memory a place that we can create and want to return to again and again? The autobiographical dimension of the film\, shaped by Schaaf’s reflections on the death of her mother\, connects her individual experience with the collective loss of our environment’ – Maria Hansen. \n\n\n\nSuzanne Elizabeth Schaaf grew up in the Netherlands and has family in the US. Sheholds a Bachelor’s in Theatre Directing and Teaching from Amsterdam University of the Arts\, and a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from UvA. \n\n\n\nContent warning: climate crisis\, exploitation of nature\, death/loss. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-iv-lost-spaces/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250312T175001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T175001Z UID:1312-1742049000-1742058000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Workshop I – Caring for Images Looking at Care: Session II (Conversations on Images of Care) DESCRIPTION:How do we see\, document\, and respectfully represent acts of care that tend to be made invisible\, despite their central role in the maintenance of healthy social relations\, and indeed of society at large? This workshop proposes to explore the space of care\, a space centrally related to human vulnerability and dependence\, and to focus on the intersection of care in its broadest sense with “images\, vision and visuality” (Pieta and Sokolovsky 2021). Inspired by the work of and framed around a conversation with Barbara Pieta and Paolo Favero\, the two founders of the ‘Images of Care Collective’\, this workshop is an invitation to think collectively about how multimodality — whether photographs\, film\, or other audiovisual media — can help us access\, document\, and understand acts of care that are often overlooked. How can multimodal approaches challenge existing representations of care and help us reimagine the ways we engage with vulnerability and power in care relations? \n\n\n\nThis targeted\, hands-on workshop will engage with selected early-career researchers’ work on care and help them develop their projects. If you have a project (concluded or ongoing) that addresses (some of) the questions raised above\, we would love to read more about it! To join us for the workshop\, hand in your proposal through the application form. This is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences and get constructive feedback from experts and peers. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Highlights\n\n\n\n\nExplore the realm of care by exchanging with the founders of the ‘Images of Care Collective’\, Barbara Pieta\, Martina Laganà and Paolo Favero\, with peers and an interested public.\n\n\n\nKeynote lecture by Barbara Pieta\, Paolo Favero and Martina Laganà\n\n\n\nPanel contributions by  büro spatzig collective\, Volha Verbilovich\, Akemi Matsumura and Annebel Huijboom\n\n\n\nOpen to all: Whether you’re working on film\, multimedia\, or cross-disciplinary projects\, all creators are welcome.\n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Details:\n\n09:30-10:45 Keynote\n\n\n\n10:45-11:15 Coffee Break\n\n\n\n11:15-12:45 Workshop Session I: Experiments in Care and Vision\n\n\n\n12:45-14:30 Lunch\n\n\n\n14:30-17:00 Workshop Session II: Conversations on Images of Care\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival\, Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich\, Pelikanstrasse 40\, 8001 Zurich\n\n\n\nCost: Free (donations welcomed to support our non-profit festival!)\n\n\n\nLanguage: English\n\n\n\nLimited space: the workshop is open to the public (no registration necessary)\, space is limited\, first come first served\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop organized by Olivia Killias and Saada Elabed\, in collaboration with Barbara Pieta\, Martina Laganà and Paolo Favero. \n\n\n\nAbout the Instructors\n\n\n\nBarbara Pieta \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Pieta is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and a co-founder of the Images of Care Collective. During fieldwork with older adults living with dementia in northeast Italy\, she explored how in this context care and visuality mutually constitute each through a vast range of practices and across manifold distinct communities of “lookers”. She has since worked to foster a sustained and attentive dialogue between so far surprisingly mutually disengaged crowds: anthropologists of care and visual anthropologists. This commitment led her to serve as a co-editor of the AnthroVision Journal’s special issue on care and the coordinator of the inaugural edition of the EASA’s AVA Award (Ageing and Visual Anthropology Award). Through her publications\, she has argued for the recognition of care as an intrinsic quality of different ways of looking (Pieta 2021 and 2024). She also co-founded Ethics Lab which unites ethnographers working with older adults and committed to transforming ways of “doing ethics” in ethnographic dementia research.  \n\n\n\nMartina Laganà \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMartina Laganà has held a research scholarship in Applied Anthropology at Eastern Piedmont University since 2021. Her research primarily focuses on the development and implementation of care programs for older adults within assisted living facilities in Northern Italy. Specifically\, her fieldwork investigates the role of material environments in shaping residents’ well-being and explores how arts and cultural initiatives can foster the deinstitutionalization of care settings. Her research interests extend to the application of participatory and arts-based methodologies to enhance both participant and audience engagement. She became a member of the “Images of Care Collective” to explore the connections between visuality and care in the context of institutional care.  \n\n\n\nPaolo Favero (Images of Care Collective) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaolo SH Favero is an image-making visual anthropologist with an interest in the meaning of images in human life. Paolo’s decades-long insistence on the generativity and interactivity of imagistic practices underlined his previous work on (among others) x-ray imagery\, shadows as well as  visual culture of death in India and beyond.  More recently\, it has also led to his co-founding of the Images of Care Collective as well as his advocating for the “look” as a medium for studying the visual field (Favero and Lehmuskallio 2025) Professor in Visual Anthropology and Cultures at the University of Antwerp\, and for many years co-convenor of the EASA’s Visual Anthropology Network\, he is specialised on emerging technologies\, visual and sensory ethnography\, arts-based methods and existential anthropology. Paolo is also the author of four single-authored books: “ImageMaking-India” (Routledge\, 2020)\, “The Present Image”(Palgrave Macmillan\, 2018)\, “Dentro e Oltre l’Immagine” (Meltemi 2017)\, “India Dreams” (Stockholm Univ. Press 2005). URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/workshop-i-caring-for-images-looking-at-care-session-ii-conversations-on-images-of-care/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T163000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T171104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T171151Z UID:1172-1742049000-1742056200@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session III: Liminal Spaces DESCRIPTION:The screening will be followed by a discussion with special guests Wucha Wulan Dari & Yuefei You \n\n\n\nModerated by Annisa Hartoto \n\n\n\nFocus: Indonesia \n\n\n\nWhat happens in the in-between? There are border spaces\, for example between past and present\, memories and the forgotten\, the seen and the unseen. The Liminal Spaces session explores transitional spaces in Indonesia\, where stories live on like ghosts and identities are constantly in the making – must they be? \n\n\n\nWhat Do Ghosts Think? (48 min)\n\n\n\nIndonesia\, 2024\, Indonesia\, Cantonese / English sub. Directed by Yuefei You \n\n\n\nThis is a rhapsody of ghost stories. Indonesia is moving its capital from Jakarta to Nusantara\, a brand-new city near the forests in Borneo. A Chinese-born anthropology student investigates supernatural stories within various communities around the construction site. She encounters local ancestors\, the resident spirit\, and unexpected ghosts herself. Who are the ghosts haunting in the construction? What do the ghosts think? Through her letters to her deceased mother\, the researcher seeks answers to the tensions between local people and the national project\, the costs of a good life and development\, the bonding of the living and the dead. \n\n\n\nYuefei You was born in Southern China and graduated in Visual Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam in 2024. This film is part of her Master’s thesis. \n\n\n\nContent warning: exploitation of nature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaila (17 min)\n\n\n\nIndonesia\, 2023\, Bahasa\, Melayu / English sub. Directed by Wucha Wulan Dari \n\n\n\n15 year-old Laila\, a junior high school student living in a coastal village in East Kalimantan\, is raised by her aunt. Her aunt plans to marry her off to a man she doesn’t know\, but Laila refuses and escapes to the beach using her late parents’ boat\, a symbol of her freedom. She threatens to stay away until her marriage is called off. However\, after some time\, Laila notices strange changes in her body\, forcing her to return to the land. \n\n\n\nWucha Wulan Dari completed her undergraduate studies in Film and Television at ISI Yogyakarta and earned her Master’s degree in Cultural Studies\, Anthropology from UGM. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion: Lost Spaces\, Liminal Identities\n\n\n\nDiscussion with special guests Wucha Wulan Dari & Yuefei You \n\n\n\nModerated by Annisa Hartoto \n\n\n\nLaila and What Do Ghosts Think? explore spaces of transition\, displacement\, and belonging. Laila navigates the in-between space of girlhood and womanhood\, resisting forced marriage while seeking refuge in the open ocean. What Do Ghosts Think? examines spiritual liminality amid the transformation of ancestral lands. Together\, these films ask: what happens when the spaces we are born into no longer hold us? Where do we go when home is no longer a place of belonging? URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-iii-liminal-spaces/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T170606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T182935Z UID:1168-1742043600-1742047200@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:SPECIAL PROGRAMME: Guided Tour - Accessing the Space DESCRIPTION:Guided by Frederik GüntenspergerLocation: outside/inside the museum\, starts at the main entrance to the Botanical Garden \n\n\n\nCome on\, we live in 2025 and public buildings are accessible! Make up your own mind. Frederik will provide wheelchairs for participants to access the Ethnographic Museum\, a building of the University of Zurich\, so you can understand what it’s like to navigate these public spaces in a wheelchair. \n\n\n\nRegard Bleu was organized by students at the University of Zurich. Frederik is one of them. Part of the planning week for this festival took place in the Ethnographic Museum. Frederik decided that this could be a chance to give other people a first-hand experience – to show them how he experiences access to the museum\, so you can better understand what he is talking about.  \n\n\n\nWe meet at gate of the Botanical Garden. We will go up to the museum – everyone using a wheelchair. As we reach the entrance hall\, the journey will be discussed with Frederik\, who is eager to hear about your experience.  \n\n\n\n\nNo registration needed first come\, first served – wheelchairs are limited\n\n\n\nCost free (donations welcomed to support our non-profit festival!)\n\n\n\nLanguage English\n\n\n\n\nAbout Frederik Güntensperger \n\n\n\nI’m Frederik\, your guide. I’m 29 years old and currently pursuing my Master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Digital Skills at the University of Zurich. I have a passion for travelling\, experiencing different cultures\, and meeting new people – some say I like dogs best. In my free time\, you’ll find me where others are – playing games with friends\, attached to walls while climbing\, or playing guitar and singing. I love music.  If someone dislikes my music\, I suspect they might have hearing issues. Oh\, and about the wheelchair – I almost forgot to mention it\, which happens sometimes. You might call me disabled\, but probably you haven’t met me yet. People say I’m friendly – some even say I’m funny. Lately\, though\, my life consists of dealing with disability insurance\, orthopaedic issues\, writing emails to complain about accessibility\, and occasionally needing to study – that’s what students do. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/special-programme-guided-tour-accessing-the-space/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T111500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T124500 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T170004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T174848Z UID:1159-1742037300-1742042700@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Workshop I – Caring for Images Looking at Care: Session I (Experiments in Care and Vision) DESCRIPTION:How do we see\, document\, and respectfully represent acts of care that tend to be made invisible\, despite their central role in the maintenance of healthy social relations\, and indeed of society at large? This workshop proposes to explore the space of care\, a space centrally related to human vulnerability and dependence\, and to focus on the intersection of care in its broadest sense with “images\, vision and visuality” (Pieta and Sokolovsky 2021). Inspired by the work of and framed around a conversation with Barbara Pieta and Paolo Favero\, the two founders of the ‘Images of Care Collective’\, this workshop is an invitation to think collectively about how multimodality — whether photographs\, film\, or other audiovisual media — can help us access\, document\, and understand acts of care that are often overlooked. How can multimodal approaches challenge existing representations of care and help us reimagine the ways we engage with vulnerability and power in care relations? \n\n\n\nThis targeted\, hands-on workshop will engage with selected early-career researchers’ work on care and help them develop their projects. If you have a project (concluded or ongoing) that addresses (some of) the questions raised above\, we would love to read more about it! To join us for the workshop\, hand in your proposal through the application form. This is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences and get constructive feedback from experts and peers. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Highlights\n\n\n\n\nExplore the realm of care by exchanging with the founders of the ‘Images of Care Collective’\, Barbara Pieta\, Martina Laganà and Paolo Favero\, with peers and an interested public.\n\n\n\nKeynote lecture by Barbara Pieta\, Paolo Favero and Martina Laganà\n\n\n\nPanel contributions by  büro spatzig collective\, Volha Verbilovich\, Akemi Matsumura and Annebel Huijboom\n\n\n\nOpen to all: Whether you’re working on film\, multimedia\, or cross-disciplinary projects\, all creators are welcome.\n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Details:\n\n09:30-10:45 Keynote\n\n\n\n10:45-11:15 Coffee Break\n\n\n\n11:15-12:45 Workshop Session I: Experiments in Care and Vision\n\n\n\n12:45-14:30 Lunch\n\n\n\n14:30-17:00 Workshop Session II: Conversations on Images of Care\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival\, Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich\, Pelikanstrasse 40\, 8001 Zurich\n\n\n\nCost: Free (donations welcomed to support our non-profit festival!)\n\n\n\nLanguage: English\n\n\n\nLimited space: the workshop is open to the public (no registration necessary)\, space is limited\, first come first served\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop organized by Olivia Killias and Saada Elabed\, in collaboration with Barbara Pieta\, Martina Laganà and Paolo Favero. \n\n\n\nAbout the Instructors\n\n\n\nBarbara Pieta \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Pieta is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and a co-founder of the Images of Care Collective. During fieldwork with older adults living with dementia in northeast Italy\, she explored how in this context care and visuality mutually constitute each through a vast range of practices and across manifold distinct communities of “lookers”. She has since worked to foster a sustained and attentive dialogue between so far surprisingly mutually disengaged crowds: anthropologists of care and visual anthropologists. This commitment led her to serve as a co-editor of the AnthroVision Journal’s special issue on care and the coordinator of the inaugural edition of the EASA’s AVA Award (Ageing and Visual Anthropology Award). Through her publications\, she has argued for the recognition of care as an intrinsic quality of different ways of looking (Pieta 2021 and 2024). She also co-founded Ethics Lab which unites ethnographers working with older adults and committed to transforming ways of “doing ethics” in ethnographic dementia research.  \n\n\n\nMartina Laganà \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMartina Laganà has held a research scholarship in Applied Anthropology at Eastern Piedmont University since 2021. Her research primarily focuses on the development and implementation of care programs for older adults within assisted living facilities in Northern Italy. Specifically\, her fieldwork investigates the role of material environments in shaping residents’ well-being and explores how arts and cultural initiatives can foster the deinstitutionalization of care settings. Her research interests extend to the application of participatory and arts-based methodologies to enhance both participant and audience engagement. She became a member of the “Images of Care Collective” to explore the connections between visuality and care in the context of institutional care.  \n\n\n\nPaolo Favero (Images of Care Collective) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaolo SH Favero is an image-making visual anthropologist with an interest in the meaning of images in human life. Paolo’s decades-long insistence on the generativity and interactivity of imagistic practices underlined his previous work on (among others) x-ray imagery\, shadows as well as  visual culture of death in India and beyond.  More recently\, it has also led to his co-founding of the Images of Care Collective as well as his advocating for the “look” as a medium for studying the visual field (Favero and Lehmuskallio 2025) Professor in Visual Anthropology and Cultures at the University of Antwerp\, and for many years co-convenor of the EASA’s Visual Anthropology Network\, he is specialised on emerging technologies\, visual and sensory ethnography\, arts-based methods and existential anthropology. Paolo is also the author of four single-authored books: “ImageMaking-India” (Routledge\, 2020)\, “The Present Image”(Palgrave Macmillan\, 2018)\, “Dentro e Oltre l’Immagine” (Meltemi 2017)\, “India Dreams” (Stockholm Univ. Press 2005). URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/special-programme-workshop-i-caring-for-images-looking-at-care-exploring-images-of-care/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T111500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T123000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T170337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T170416Z UID:1163-1742037300-1742041800@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session II: Bridging Spaces DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Selma Schenkel & Eva Frutig \n\n\n\nBridging Spaces explores the fluidity of identity\, memory\, and belonging across cultures and generations. Through three different films\, we navigate personal and collective histories\, witnessing journeys of return\, remembrance\, and reconciliation. Each story acts as a bridge\, linking past and present\, silence and expression\, roots and movement\, self and ancestry or society. They invite us to reflect on the invisible threads that link places\, people\, and pasts. \n\n\n\nI Feel Your Silence (17 min)\n\n\n\nGermany\, Netherlands\, 2023\, German\, English / English sub. Directed by Laura Heinig \n\n\n\nEvery sentence about Grandma is like a loss. She didn’t talk much – certainly not about what moved her. It is only after her death that I’ve used this film to search into how war and violence affect relationships and create silence. In everyday life\, in the household and in the family. A tender portrait that takes us back to that time\, which still resonates with us today. \n\n\n\n‘I Feel Your Silence is an impressive example of autoethnographic filmmaking\, blending personal and historical dimensions. The film becomes a search for untold stories\, guided by conversations between the filmmaker and her mother. Through a hybrid mix of documentary\, fictional reenactments\, and archival material\, a space that confronts transgenerational trauma’ is created – Selma Liv Schenkel. \n\n\n\nLaura Heinig has a background in Cultural Studies and Anthropology\, which she studied in Frankfurt (Oder)\, Santiago de Chile and the Netherlands. Since 2019\, she has been part of the documentary directing class at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. \n\n\n\nContent warning: intergenerational trauma\, war\, domestic violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadj: On Roots and Rooting (30 min)\n\n\n\nNetherlands\, Suriname\, 2024\, Dutch / English sub. Directed by Nadine Haselier \n\n\n\nIn 1975\, 28-year-old Radjkoemarie left Suriname for the Netherlands to build a new home and a better life for her young family. Two generations later\, granddaughter Nadine explores her Indo-Surinamese roots\, based on the story of her Nani. What can Radj’s journey tell us about the meaning of home and planting new roots in foreign soil? And what does it mean to have roots in multiple places? \n\n\n\nThrough a series of interviews\, archival research and tracing her family tree together with Nani\, the film explores a collaborative approach to decolonizing (visual) representations of the Indo-Surinamese community. \n\n\n\n‘Radj: On Roots & Rooting  invites the audience to reflect on origin\, belonging\, and the intersections of identity\, migration\, and environment. The film’s poetic and contemplative storytelling\, combined with its profound themes\, offers an intellectually and emotionally engaging experience’ – Eva Frutig. \n\n\n\nNadine Haselier is a Visual Ethnographer and Director of Photography based in Amsterdam. Born in New Zealand to German and Surinamese parents\, she approaches her work with an international yet local mindset. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLullaby of Waves (15 min)\n\n\n\nIndia\, 2023\, Assamese / English sub. Directed by Ayon Pratim Saikia \n\n\n\nA 53-year-old woman with 26 years of marriage and 25 years of motherhood reflects on her life. The director’s focus is on his mother who\, in pursuit of employment\, journeyed to the place of her child’s birth\, crossing the river Brahmaputra. Her life took an unexpected turn in the remote land of Sadiya\, a region divided and detached from the rest of Assam. This area can only be accessed by crossing the Brahmaputra River\, marking the beginning of Assam and a tip that was never connected to the mainland. \n\n\n\nThe film unfolds as a poignant exploration of the filmmakers’ journey towards understanding and accepting the profound sense of belonging tied to space and time. Delving into the search for identity through his mother’s voice\, the narrative reveals the events that have shaped\, and will continue to shape\, the future. \n\n\n\n‘The essay filmLullaby of Waves takes us on an experimental and poetic journey across the Brahmaputra River into the northeastern region of Assam\, India.  The filmmaker uses the Brahmaputra River as a recurring symbol of geographical and emotional spaces. The film is not only a sensitive exploration of family history\, but also a timeless work about the search for home\, belonging\, and identity’ – Lena Oberholzer. \n\n\n\nAyon Pratim Saikia is a filmmaking student currently pursuing a Master’s in Design at NID Ahmedabad. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Tezpur Central University\, Assam. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-ii-bridging-spaces/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250315T104500 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T165123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T172506Z UID:1154-1742031000-1742035500@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:KEYNOTE: Images of Care - Ways of Looking\, Ways of Caring: Towards a Visual Anthropology of Care DESCRIPTION:Keynote by Barbara Pieta\, Paolo Favero and Martina LaganàLocation: Lecture HallPart of Workshop I \n\n\n\nWhat does an anthropology of care look like? What types of images – and more specifically\, what ways of looking at care relations – has this scholarship generated? And how has (or how can) visual anthropology further transform these ways of seeing? If\, as we argue\, care is intrinsically related to visuality (Pieta and Favero 2021)\, then how can anthropologists of care and people they work with\, ‘see\, are able\, allow and made to see and\, to how they see this seeing and the unseen therein’ (Foster 1988\, ix)? \n\n\n\nIn this keynote I will address these questions by inviting the audience to cast their experimentally-minded look at images – and more broadly at manifold strategies of looking – generated by ethnographers who have crafted stories of human and more-than-human coping with insecurity and suffering. This will involve discussing the type of visual and sensory discernment I have developed during my fieldwork with older adults (and their carers) living with dementia in Northeast Italy\, and putting this type of looking into the company of the looking developed by other ethnographers or visual scholars exploring relations and practices of care. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/keynote-images-of-care-ways-of-looking-ways-of-caring-towards-a-visual-anthropology-of-care/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250314T191500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250314T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T163543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T164834Z UID:1147-1741979700-1741986000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session I: Enter [the] Spaces DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lena Oberholzer & Meret Namaï Weiss \n\n\n\nWe invite you to enter the world of ethnographic films and stories. In this session you can gain a glimpse of the multiple spaces opening during this festival. By joining us on a journey through the diversity of places and voices\, visually and emotionally\, it may be possible to get a feeling of the in-between. How can different spaces shape identities? How do we understand the experiences of others\, and how do they change our perceptions of the world? Let these films challenge you\, spark your curiosity and open the doors to unique stories of care around the non-human\, diaspora and intimacy. \n\n\n\nNandi (25 min)\n\n\n\nNepal\, 2024\, Nepali / English sub.Directed by Xena Louise Stockley White \n\n\n\nWe wander and wonder through the streets of Kathmandu\, Nepal\, tracing the lives of free-roaming cattle – domestic animals displaced from home yet adapting to urban life. Following bovine bodies around the sacred grounds of Pashupatinath\, the film explores encounters between humans and cattle\, reflecting on what forms of co-existence are possible across species in the city. \n\n\n\n‘Nandi displays various small reactions and interactions between the humans and cows. These moments are very subtle and interesting. For me\, the quality of the film lies in these scenes\, because they reveal in a nuanced way the respect\, fear\, anger\, reverence\, intimacy or care that characterizes the interspecies relationship’ – Meret Namaï Weiss. \n\n\n\nXena Louise Stockley White studied Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. This film is her first independently made audiovisual work\, created during fieldwork in Kathmandu as part of her Master’s thesis at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wireless Set (32 min)\n\n\n\nScotland\, 2023\, English / English sub. Directed by Esme Andrews \n\n\n\nBy following one summer in the lives of three elderly residents of Sanday – an island in the archipelago of Orkney\, Scotland – this film attempts to recentre their voices within the discourse on island health care. Discussions of geographical disparity move into the more universal topics of ageing and dying. \n\n\n\nEsme Andrews has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen and a background of freelance photography and videography. The Wireless Set is part of her Master’s in Visual Anthropology at University of Tromsø. \n\n\n\nContent warning: death. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLike Aphrodite (23 min)\n\n\n\nGreece\, 2023\, Albanian\, Modern Greek / English sub. Directed by Anisa Xhomaqi \n\n\n\nA second-generation Albanian migrant in Greece\, Anisa Xhomaqi\, follows her mother\, Aphrodite\, from her cleaning job onto a trip with other Albanian women to Southern Greece. A tender and caring view of a generation of migrants who are usually seen as working in precarious jobs\, the film focuses through the different lens of leisure\, as a way to connect\, resist and organize against work exploitation and racism. Through visual metaphors and polyphonic sounds\, the film is a poetic study of the Albanian migrant community in Greece. \n\n\n\nAnisa Xhomaqi studied Photography and Audiovisual Arts at Athens University of Applied Sciences and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice\, Italy. She completed Like Aphrodite during the Master’s in Visual Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. \n\n\n\nDon’t Cut Too Much (15 min)\n\n\n\nIndia\, 2024\, Hindi / English sub. Directed by Sachin Das \n\n\n\nMasculinity is often expressed through hairstyles and grooming. This film explores the various types of barber shops\, from high-end salons to roadside setups\, and delves into the nuances of gender\, self-care\, caste\, and class\, through the barbers and their customers. It also explores the ‘safe space’ of camaraderie and belongingness that the barber shop creates for people. This is a reflection on the construction of masculinity through films\, peers\, and elders; and how it shapes people’s psyches by linking external attributes of beauty to one’s internal peace and satisfaction. \n\n\n\nSachin Das is a theatre artist\, storyteller and filmmaker. Itna Bhi Mat Kaato (Hindi) / Don’t Cut Too Much (Eng) is a student project he created at the National Institute of Design\, India. \n\n\n\nContent warning: mentions of sexual assault. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-i-enter-the-spaces/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250314T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250314T184500 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20250216T161354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250216T163418Z UID:1144-1741975200-1741977900@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Welcome Speeches: Enter [the] Space DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Annuska DerksCo-Director of the ISEK (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies)\, University of Zurich \n\n\n\nSaada ElabedFestival Director\, PhD Candidate\, Director Regard Bleu 2020-2025\, University of Zurich \n\n\n\nAmir Mommartz & Ella PoniatowskiFestival Coordinators\, Regard Bleu 2025 Team\, University of Zurich URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/welcome-speeches-enter-the-space/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T160433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T160747Z UID:610-1665937800-1665941400@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session VIII: People’s View DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Adamma Ezeanyika \n\n\n\nHow do you see it? People’s View explores individuals’ diverse perspectives on their environment. \n\n\n\nUsambara Violet (9 min) \n\n\n\nHungary\, 2020\, Hindi / English sub. Directed by Aman Wadhan \n\n\n\nSome potted plants\, odd hours of wakefulness\, and the view from my window. A heliotropic film from the lockdown in Budapest. \n\n\n\nAman Wadhan is an Indian filmmaker and wanderer presently based in Hungary. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India\, and the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE\, Budapest). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeine Sicht der Dinge / Your View of Things (31 min) \n\n\n\nGermany\, 2021\, German / no sub.Directed by Lisa Baumann\, Ronja Kästner and Marlene Schlichtenhorst \n\n\n\nThis film explores the work of Hannah Rau\, a poet and social worker in Lübeck\, taking care of juvenile delinquents. Young people are sent to her by the juvenile court to complete the punitive measure “Leseweisung”\, an alternative concept to community service or youth arrest. Hannah encourages her clients to reflect upon their actions by reading a book and doing some creative writing tasks. Through the protagonists’ perspectives and her own experiences\, the viewers get to understand her way of connecting with the young people she tries to support. The film gives insights into several sessions with Hannah and three young women telling their stories. Also\, it raises the question of how to face crime and sheds light on alternative forms of punishment. \n\n\n\nLisa Baumann\, Ronja Kästner and Marlene Schlichtenhorst are students at the Georg-August- Universität Göttingen and created their movie as a term assignment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanama One Way (15 min) \n\n\n\nGermany\, 2021\, German / English sub. Directed by João Pedro Prado \n\n\n\nThe German martial artist Yve firmly believes that the coronavirus pandemic is a global farce. Since she started sharing her views with thousands of followers via her Instagram account\, she has moved further and further onto the fringes of society\, losing not only friends but also her job in the process. Together with her boyfriend\, she has decided to emigrate to a country where she believes she can live and speak more freely: Panama. In Panama One Way we accompany Yve during her last days in Berlin as she says goodbye to her loved ones – and delve into the life of a woman who has moved so far away from the social consensus that she is now willing to leave her people behind for good. \n\n\n\nJoão Pedro Prado is completing an MA in Directing at Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. He previously graduated in Philosophy and Film Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and studied Audiovisual Media at the University of São Paulo. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI gsehn öppis wo du nüm gsesch / I Spy with my Little Eye (9 min) \n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2021\, Swiss German / English sub.Directed by Annaka Minsch \n\n\n\nThe view through the camera resembles the view of a child. The smallest things receive the utmost attention\, everyday occurrences are brimming with stories and inexplicable things are explained by their own fantasies. This film invites us adults to abandon all logic and immerse ourselves in this world once again. We can listen to children talking about their ideas of the world\, life and death. \n\n\n\nAnnaka Minsch is studying Film at the Hochschule Luzern for Art and Design. The film was produced in the framework of her studies. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-viii-peoples-view/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T160155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T160332Z UID:603-1665930600-1665936000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session VII: Shetland’s Common Thread DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Paula Hsu \n\n\n\nDeeply embedded into everyday lives\, connected to different personal meanings\, and changing over generations: the production of a material that forms relationships between people\, animals and their common environment. \n\n\n\nShetland’s Common Thread (45 min) \n\n\n\nGermany / United Kingdom\, 2020\, English / English sub. Directed by Helena Held\, Leyla Rauch and Anja Heinrich \n\n\n\nShetland’s Common Thread is about the craft of wool processing on the Shetland Islands and the daily activities of the protagonists associated with it. The connection between the island and its human and non-human inhabitants becomes clear through the tranquil narrative style. The sustainable production method shows the deep relationship between people and the environment\, and makes visible the integration of the small island in the global network. \n\n\n\nLeyla Rauch\, Helena Held and Anja Heinrich have produced this film as a term assignment for their MA in Visual Anthropology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. \n\n\n\nConversation with \n\n\n\nKiah Rutz\, PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology\, University of Zurich URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-vii-shetlands-common-thread/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T155826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T155912Z UID:598-1665921600-1665927000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Workshop II: Behind the Lens DESCRIPTION:PLACE Old botanical garden (outside\, in any weather) INSTRUCTORS Belinda Casparis & Katerina Vesela FOR Children and families\, open to everyone \n\n\n\nHands-on Filming!\n\n\n\nAlways wanted to make a movie yourself? Then this workshop is for you! Designed as a family-friendly\, children-tailored workshop\, we will experience what it takes to work behind the lens. From looking at and holding a professional film camera to getting to know specific camera settings\, creating a short storyboard\, and finally filming some first shots in the beautiful surroundings of the old botanical garden around the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich – in this 90 minute workshop you can take your first steps in filmmaking. Please bring your own device/smartphone. \n\n\n\nAll interested parties are welcome and children (4 – open age) are encouraged to join in by themselves. Depending on the participants this workshop might be held in German. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\nCamera handling Camera setting Story boarding Filming\n\n\n\nSign up on social media (Facebook\, Instagram) and drop in a comment below for guaranteed admission – we will add you to the list and let you know if you have got a place. Feel free to bring friends. Last minute registration only possible at the venue if the workshop takes place and spaces are available. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/workshop-ii-behind-the-lens/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221016T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T155119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T155629Z UID:590-1665921600-1665927000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session VI: Shared Things DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lucrezia Omlin \n\n\n\nSometimes\, when people share spaces\, interests or ideas\, their joint efforts result in something no one could create on their own. This session presents a mixture of situations where people find new perspectives on their lives by sharing what they have and what they dream of. \n\n\n\nBetter than Home (3 min) \n\n\n\nGermany\, 2021\, German / English sub. Directed by Marie Pauline Bagh \n\n\n\nFor women who experience domestic violence\, a women’s refuge is often the only way out. This short documentary film is intended to give a small insight into this shelter and yet preserve its anonymity. \n\n\n\nMarie Pauline Bagh is a student at the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln and this film was realized as part of her studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nT’eaa’s Guest (38 min)\n\n\n\nIran / Georgia\, 2022\, Persian / English sub. Directed by Narges Kharghani \n\n\n\nThis film is about a couple and their dogs living in Tbilisi\, Georgia. They face a big challenge in their day-to day lives\, but the arrival of a guest changes everything. In her documentary\, Iranian filmmaker Narges Kharghani tells the story of two people\, their animals and a shared place\, with a humorous tone. \n\n\n\nNarges Kharghani is an Iranian filmmaker. \n\n\n\nKalopérasi: Good Times between the Bad Times (21 min) \n\n\n\nAustria / Greece\, 2020\, Modern Greek / English / English sub.Directed by Alexandra Wrbka \n\n\n\nKalopérasi: Good Times between the Bad Times captures the filmmaker’s encounters with young Greeks engaged in rebetiko music who she follows around the country. The film suggests that the uncertain socio-economic conditions of the Greek context have provided a springboard for the revival of rebetiko among young people\, fuelled by an indignation towards the state’s failure to guarantee their basic material and social needs. Instead of giving clear-cut answers and making stringent assessments\, the film opens up discourse on both the precariat and on the socio-political agency of youth through reviving this old art. Above all\, Kalopérasi shows how the making and enjoyment of rebetiko brings together and empowers these young people when seemingly little else is working in their favour. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Wrbka studied Translation Studies and Media Studies for her BA. In the framework of her MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology\, she produced her first ethnographic film\, Kalopérasi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuebradilla (20 min) \n\n\n\nChile\, 2021\, Spanish / English sub. Directed by Víctor Villegas \n\n\n\nIn La Quebradilla of Alto Hospicio the movement of people\, objects and emotions converge\, articulated by proximity trade. An almost imperceptible ravine now houses a kilometric open-air market\, managed in urban contestation. \n\n\n\nVíctor Villegas is currently a doctoral student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also founder of the audio-visual research and production company ETNOCINEMA (www.etnocinema.cl). URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-vi-shared-things/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T154744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T165214Z UID:582-1665860400-1665865800@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session V: Healing Thing(s) DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lydia Gauss \n\n\n\nIt is not just the planet that is in need of healing\, the individuals inhabiting Earth are also looking for cures. There are various methods to deal with physical and mental pain\, and these three films emerge from different practices\, making invisible things visible. In doing so they question the boundaries between nature and culture: are the two entities actually homogenous and in a constant dialogue with each other? \n\n\n\nAlla Bua (30 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland / Italy\, 2021\, Italian / Swiss German / English sub. Directed by Zoë Beer \n\n\n\nIn this ethnographic documentary\, Maria\, Lele and Flavia share their personal stories of healing\, all of them connected to a historical-religious phenomena: “Tarantism” in Southern Italy. Since the 14th century the Pizzica has been played and danced to cure people from a spider’s bite. Today\, as Flavia\, Maria and Lele tell us\, it can be a cure for any physical or psychological pain\, a cure even for the troubles of a fast-paced world. To them\, the Pizzica is more than a music or dance form\, and by listening\, dancing or playing they experience “alla bua”\, a different cure\, which is connected to trance states\, visions\, the invisible and holy. \n\n\n\nZoë Beer is about to complete her BA in Social Anthropology and Interreligious Studies at the University of Berne. During her studies she has discovered her interest in ethnographic filmmaking and produced two films. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLa Dieta (21 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland / Peru\, 2021\, English / German / Spanish / English sub. Directed by Miriam Eigenheer \n\n\n\nThis anthropological short film is based on research conducted in the Peruvian Amazon with a curandero\, a practicing healer\, and his European patients. The curanderos administer medicines made of barks\, roots and leaves from local plants and trees to treat patients with physical\, emotional\, or spiritual ailments within the framework of a dieta (diet). To purify the body\, a dieta encompasses eating grilled fish and cooked plantains or manioc. During the time that a patient stays in the camp\, for between 10 days and three months\, they live in a hut with reduced social inputs and go through a holistic process of healing. Based on the Amazonian mestizo cosmology\, individuals are treated and taught by the espiritu curanderos (spirit healers of the plants)\, which they contact by taking the medicines. This portrait offers a sensory journey into this setting of healing and embeds the practice of la dieta cosmologically. \n\n\n\nMiriam Eigenheer studied Social Anthropology at the University of Berne and completed her MA at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Her second film La Dieta is part of her Master’s thesis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNgen (23 min)\n\n\n\nChile\, 2022\, Other\, Spanish / English sub. Directed by Jaime Bernardo Díaz Díaz \n\n\n\nThrough a contemplative and dreamlike journey\, this documentary shows us the world of Rosa\, a Mapuche machi from the town of Fin Fin Boroa\, Araucanía Region. Watching her story and observing her environment brings us closer to the deep relationship that exists between herself\, medicine and non-human beings called Ngen\, owners of nature. Alongside this narrative\, the short film also addresses the life/destruction dichotomy\, a constant in the capital/life conflict\, showing us another side of the consequences of the impact of the forestry industry in the territory of the Wallmapu that is affecting the Mapuche communities – not only in the ecological dimension\, but also culturally and ontologically. \n\n\n\n«How would we move in our environment if we knew that every tiniest pebble\, every plant\, every object is alive and idiosyncratic? Ngen approaches the Chilean Mapuche’s world view\, in which human and non-human existences form a common entity. Director Jaime Bernardo Díaz Díaz works with long shots that give the audience time to process impressions. The carefully produced soundscape brings out further facets of nature and makes it a multi-sensory experience. Ngen deals with interesting anthropological topics such as medicine and healing\, and the clash of different world views. At the same time\, it is an aesthetic experience that appeals to the senses and stimulates reflection.»— Paula Hsu on Ngen \n\n\n\nJaime Bernardo Díaz Díaz is the director\, producer and editor of documentaries. He holds a degree in Ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History\, and an MA in Documentary Film from the University of Chile. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-v-healing-things/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T150013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T153657Z UID:574-1665851400-1665858600@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session IV: Archive – What do we Keep and Why? DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lydia Gauss \n\n\n\nWhat do we keep and why? Is it about the objects or rather for the sake of remembering? An archive shows what has been preserved over time and yet many materials seem useless without the knowledge of them in memory. \n\n\n\nMelancholic Diasporas (9 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland / Sweden\, 2022\, Swedish / Swiss German / English sub. Directed by Anna Joos \n\n\n\nMelancholic Diasporas is an archive-based documentary on Italian migration in Switzerland. Anna Joos found some family archive of her great grandfather that depicted a part of her father’s life that was unfamiliar to her. This film shows the space the archive carved out for us to talk about this part of him for the first time. \n\n\n\nAnna Joos is a Swedish/Swiss visual anthropologist. She obtained an MA from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology\, University of Manchester in 2019. Currently she is based at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLa Place des Choses / Where Things Go (75 min) \n\n\n\nSwitzerland / Belgium\, 2022\, French / English sub.Directed by Baptiste Aubert \n\n\n\nIn Belgium\, in the post-industrial city of Verviers\, Baptiste Aubert filmed a group of men who collect and repair old textile machines. Imitating their passion\, he also started a collection and began to wander around the city’s flea markets in search of weaving shuttles. Through the ethnography of these two collections\, the film Where Things Go questions the objects that cross our lives and explores our relationship to memory and the past. \n\n\n\nBaptiste Aubert works as an assistant at the University of Neuchâtel where he is completing his PhD thesis in visual anthropology. He is also a member of the anthropologist and filmmaker collective AREC (a-rec.ch). URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-iv-archive-what-do-we-keep-and-why/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T145513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T145732Z UID:561-1665851400-1665855000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Workshop I: Intro to Visual Anthropology DESCRIPTION:PLACE Seminar RoomINSTRUCTORS Katerina Vesela & Belinda Casparis FOR students & adults \n\n\n\nReady to explore the world of visual anthropology with us? Are you a newbie who would like to gain an insight into ethnographic film? Or do you already bring a fair amount of knowledge about visual anthropology or films to the table and would like to gain a little insight “behind the scenes” into what it takes to organize an ethnographic film festival? This workshop will cater to both expectations. \n\n\n\nSign up on social media (Facebook\, Instagram) and drop a comment in below for guaranteed admission – we will add you to the list and let you know if you have got a place. Last minute registration only possible at the venue if the workshop takes place and spaces are available. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\nIntroduction to visual anthropologyShort summary with screenings of the three main fields of visual anthropology:cinéma véritésensory cinemaobservational / participatory cinemaReflections on “How to organize an ethnographic film festival”\, with discussion URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/workshop-i-intro-to-visual-anthropology/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T153000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T144254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T141217Z UID:542-1665840600-1665847800@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session III: (Re) Constructing Realities DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Belinda Casparis & Katerina Vesela \n\n\n\nWhat is it that shapes and provides for our everyday living? These three films examine through a critical lens what it takes to adapt to our ever-changing\, consumption-driven society. Three different perspectives on the facts and consequences of societal challenges encourage the viewer to engage with (re)constructing realities. \n\n\n\nBulgarian Melons (8 min) \n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2021\, No DialogueDirected by Léon Huesler \n\n\n\nSand from Nassau\, asparagus grown on the Schwägalp and Bulgarian melons. Are they real in the economic paradise called Switzerland – and who produces them? A calm look at the relations of production. \n\n\n\n«Putting the sounds into words is difficult\, as are the images. With Bulgarian Melons Huesler has succeeded in capturing a diffuse feeling through image and sound\, although one wonders where the melons have gone…»— Sarah Wacker on Bulgarian Melons \n\n\n\n«As a combination of essayistic and artistic short film\, Léon Huesler shows us his critical perspective on the production of food and sets it in contrast with small excerpts from scenes of everyday life in Switzerland. There is no escaping the irritating squeaking of trains\, the constant whirring of irrigation systems or the annoying high-pitched beeping of transport ships. And yet it is precisely these monotonous sounds that force us to engage with the matter of the film’s subject.»— Belinda Casparis on Bulgarian Melons \n\n\n\nLéon Huesler studies video at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFalken / Falcons (9 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022\, Swiss German / English sub.Directed by Damiana Rudolphi\, Ladina Braun\, Lea Studer and Jana Schlegel \n\n\n\nIn Zurich\, after a hundred years\, the waste incineration plant on Josefstrasse is being demolished. A huge construction site is now in the middle of the city. While work on the construction site goes on\, the place is revealed more and more through telephone conversations. \n\n\n\n«In the Anthropocene\, the new geochronological era\, humanity turned into an agent of change on many planetary levels. The human being as an individual remains rather unimportant in this time. With “Falcons”\, the four students from the University of Bern turn a construction site in Zurich into the main protagonist of their movie. The shots of the Josefstrasse construction site are accompanied by off-screen voices from telephone conversations with various people involved in the construction site. […] The camera\, however\, always remains far away from the action\, which is atypical/untypical for observational cinema. The distance that is created\, leads to the construction site itself becoming the object of observation as a non-human actor. […] This film is an anthropological portrait of an urban place that is currently in the midst of transformation.»— Katerina Vesela on Falcons \n\n\n\nDamiana Rudolphi\, Ladina Braun\, Lea Studer and Jana Schlegel are students from the University of Bern and realized this project as a term assignment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNot Just Roads (70 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland / India\, 2020\, Hindi / English sub.Directed by Nitin Bathla and Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou \n\n\n\nA massive urban transformation is underway in India. Highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate of 23 kilometres per day under the Indian government’s Bharatmala (‘Garland of Limitless Roads’) programme\, which aims to open up new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently\, the area is inhabited by villages\, working class communities\, and nomadic herders. It is criss-crossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway outside Delhi\, from the perspective of human and non-human actors. \n\n\n\nNitin Bathla studied Architecture for his BA followed by a MA on Advanced Studies in Urban Design at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on labour migration\, land ecology\, and housing in the extended urban region of Delhi. \n\n\n\nKlearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou is a Greek/Mexican filmmaker interested in ethnography as a filmmaking methodology. He is currently based in Zürich\, where he teaches ethnographic filmmaking at the urban scale at the ETHZ. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-iii-re-constructing-realities/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221015T123000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220926T135931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T150041Z UID:507-1665829800-1665837000@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session II: Ethnographic Film Factory – Summer Schools DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Katerina Vesela & Adamma Ezeanyika \n\n\n\nLast 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. \n\n\n\n300 portes et de la patineGhostedProduktionsloch / Production GapStadtgrünZeitzeugenDie Stimme aus dem Off\n\n\n\nAudio-Visual Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association Summer School\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nParticipating studentsAdamma 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) \n\n\n\nInstructorsDr. Laura Coppens (University of Bern) Baptiste Aubert (University of Neuchâtel) \n\n\n\nExternal contributorHeidi Hiltebrand\, independent editor and screenwriter (Zürich) \n\n\n\nPopular Culture Studies at the University of Zurich Summer School\n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nParticipating studentsAndrea-Luca Bossard\, Arthur Sobrinho\, Inken Blum\, Jan Kohler\, Katerina Vesela\, Laura Hardmeier\, Lovina Koeing\, Naomi Ena Eggli\, Tim Hunziker (all UZH) \n\n\n\nInstructorsDr. Brigitte Frizzoni\, Managing Director of ISEK Popular Culture Studies and lecturer Daniel Rytz\, filmmakerRahel Grunder\, filmmaker \n\n\n\nThe students and the instructors Dr. Brigitte Frizzoni\, Daniel Rytz\, Baptiste Aubert and Dr. Laura Coppens will be present at the festival. \n\n\n\nCAV Summer School Films\n\n\n\n300 portes et de la patine\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022Directed by Nora Munk and Audrey Rosset \n\n\n\nBy 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”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGhosted (9 min)\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022Directed by Paloma Gude\, Filippo Bozzini and Nimal Bourloud \n\n\n\nCollected\, 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPopular Culture Studies University of Zurich Summer School\n\n\n\nProduktionsloch / Production Gap\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022Directed by Tim Hunziker and Inken Blum \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStadtgrün\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022Directed by Katerina Vesela and Jan Kohler \n\n\n\nHow 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZeitzeugen\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022Directed by Lovina Koenig\, Naomi Ena Eggli and Laura Hardmeier \n\n\n\nWhy 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDie Stimme aus dem Off\n\n\n\nSwitzerland\, 2022Directed by Arthur Sobrinho and Andrea-Luca Bossard \n\n\n\nLea 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. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-ii-ethnographic-film-factory-summer-schools/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221014T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221014T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220925T193704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T164940Z UID:381-1665772200-1665777600@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Session I: People & Things DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sarah Wacker \n\n\n\nWhat things make us the people we are? What things do we need to be people? Do the things we own define our person – or vice versa? \n\n\n\nMy Friend Alexander Grigorievich (25 min)\n\n\n\nRussian Federation\, 2022\, Russian / English sub.Directed by Pavel Zelenov \n\n\n\nAlexander Grigorievich is a lonely man. Both his sons emigrated abroad many years ago: each has his own family and spares no thought for his father. His relationship with his ex-wife has gone sour: they are not interested in each other’s lives. He collects scrap metal at garbage dumps and hands it over at drop-offs\, and only his cat waits for him at home. \n\n\n\nPavel Zelenov graduated from the Tula Railway College as a locomotive assistant driver in 2006. In 2022 he attended the Higher Directing Course at the Faculty of Additional Education of St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinematography and Television. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLa Mina del Sonido / The Mine of the Sound (25 min)\n\n\n\nFrance\, 2021\, Spanish / English sub.Directed by Romina Del Rosario \n\n\n\nCesar\, musician and researcher of sounds from Chile\, takes us with him on his sound explorations. In Paris\, a few meters underground\, traditional instruments reveal what words cannot express. \n\n\n\n«The film follows more the logic of a musical piece than a narrative\, with the return to the sound study representing a kind of refrain. Off-screen elements mix with sounds produced on screen by instruments. This free handling of the sound takes the audience into a sensual-artistic space but without losing its ethnographic film background. The playful experiment thus becomes the object and means of ethnographic observation.»— Lucrezia Omlin on La Mina del Sonido \n\n\n\nRomina Del Rosaria studied sociology and cinema in France. In 2019 she attended the Documentary Editing Practice Course at Ateliers Varan. The Mine of the Sound is her first short documentary\, realized during a workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10 by 10 (29 min)\n\n\n\nUnited Kingdom / Republic of Korea\, 2021\, Korean / English / English sub.Directed by Jami L. Bennett \n\n\n\nThere is no denying the evocative power of food to remind us of who we are and where we come from. After living in Asia for over fifteen years\, Jami L. Bennett’s sister Jessica was longing for the burgers and barbecue of her native Tennessee. With the help of her husband Dongseop\, she opened an American-style diner out of her home on Jeju Island\, South Korea in 2018. After being featured on one of the country’s most popular television shows\, the couple must now adjust to the shock of their newfound TV fame\, and all this against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Exploring themes of food\, home\, identity\, and celebrity\, 10 by 10 is an intimate portrait of Jessica’s journey through these events as she learns to navigate the blurred boundaries between private life and public persona. \n\n\n\n«Jami L. Bennett closely accompanies Jessica\, the protagonist\, in her attempt to manifest her American identity in a foreign country. The Tennessee Table\, the couple’s self-built ten by ten room\, becomes the site of two clashing cultures.»— Adamma Ezeanyika on 10 by 10 \n\n\n\nJami L. Bennett received her MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Based in the UK\, she is continuing to build a body of creative and academic work. URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/session-i-people-things/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221014T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221014T181500 DTSTAMP:20260501T122301 CREATED:20220925T162639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T145037Z UID:361-1665768600-1665771300@regardbleu.ch SUMMARY:Welcome Speeches DESCRIPTION:What is an ethnographic film?\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Mareile FlitschDirector of the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich \n\n\n\nSaada ElabedFestival Director \n\n\n\nConversation with \n\n\n\nProf. Tamar ElorAcademic Director of the Anthropological Film Festival\, Hebrew University\, Jerusalem URL:https://regardbleu.ch/event/welcome-speeches/ CATEGORIES:Festival 2022 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR