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Editorial ………………………………………………………. 2 The 34th NAFA Film Festival and Symposium/workshop ……. 3 Call for films: 11th International Ethno Film Festival, Croatia … 4 Call for films: ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2014 ……………….. 5 network Program of the Middle East and Eurasia ….. 6 5th "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" Festival in Moscow ……... 6

Society for 2014 Film & Media Festival … 7 vol. 21.1 (March 2014) Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East …………. 9 Incorporating the Commission of Visual Anthropology (CVA) Circular MA in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths ………………………. 10 Creative Archives, Summerschool at Aarhus University ……… 11 Web version: http://www.nafa.uib.no EYE & MIND: MA in Visual Anthropology, AU …………… 12 ISSN: 0805 - 1046 NOTICE BOARD ………………………………………….. 14 Please send news, articles and announcements to: CALENDAR ………………………………………………… 18

Berit Madsen, Anne Mette Jorgensen and Christian Suhr Department of Anthropology Moesgaard 8270 Hoejbjerg Denmark Fax: +45 89424655 E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected]

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Editorial

By Berit Madsen, Anne Mette Jørgensen and Christian Suhr

Dear readers,

While the first signs of spring are coming to Denmark, ([email protected]) or check the Facebook of Please observe that deadline for the next volume is May we’re editing this fresh new volume of NAFA Network Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA). 14, 2014. for you, the first volume of 2014. We wish a great 2014 We also remind you that the NAFA Film Festival is still for all of you. open for entries: Deadline is April 6. Online entry form HAPPY SPRING can be found on nativemind.org This year, our annual International NAFA Film Festival and Seminar, the 34th NAFA Film Festival 2014 with This volume also presents to you call for films by the symposium / workshop "Sharing a Common Story" festivals in Paris, Estonia, Romania, Croatia, Moscow moves to beautiful Isafjordur, Iceland, and will be held and Washington DC. Furthermore it includes the June 4-8, 2014. The organisers, Haukur Sigurdsson and announcement of the Visual Sociology MA Programme Vaida Braziunaite, are in for giving you a real treat – at Goldsmiths, a new summerschool called “Creative not just presenting a very interesting programme but Archives: Audio-Visual Thinking and Montage” at also planning recreational parts such as a tour from Aarhus University, and the EYE & MIND MA Isafjordur to Patreksfjordur in the beautiful Westfjords programme in Visual Anthropology – also at Aarhus of Iceland. Please read an update on the festival below. University. A festival website will be set up – in the meantime please contact the organisers by email for any question And below all of this, the usual notice board and calendar.

nafa::news and announcements

The 34th NAFA Film Festival and Symposium/workshop Iceland, June 4-8, 2014

Dear readers,

We welcome you to the 34th NAFA Film Festival diversity. It will take place at Ísafjarðarbíó cinema, and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nordic- 2014, with the symposium / workshop will be open to the public. Anthropological-Film-Association- "Sharing a Common Story". NAFA/151816301538373?notif_t=page One of the biggest goals for organizing such an event in This year’s film festival will take place in Ísafjörður (Ice- Isafjordur, Iceland for us, NAFA 2014 organizers, is Icy greetings, land) and will be convened by the University Center of also to attract locals’ attention to take part in such an Local organizers, the Westfjords (Iceland) from 4th to 8th of June 2014. international event that raises awareness on social issues Haukur Sigurdsson and Vaida Braziunaite It will be organized in conjunction with the symposium around the world and connect them to those that are and workshop titled ”Sharing a Common Story.” present in Iceland, while using documentary films. By presenting various ethnographic films dealing with Practical activities and time schedule Sharing information has never been as technically easy socio-cultural processes in a wide sense of the term, we of the network as today. With social media, online video sharing hope to encourage public debates on such issues and platforms and galleries, sharing becomes an instant ways to address them. The festival is run on a non- The program of NAFA 2014 is divided in two parts: action practiced by a large deal of the world’s profit bases, hence it will be accessible to all for free. population. People are more connected than ever and NAFA has existed for nearly forty years and has an 1. NAFA Film Festival and Symposium/Workshop the personal links are more direct. This offers endless established network of filmmakers and academics from program (Wednesday-Saturday), Isafjordur, potentials for academics and filmmakers alike in sharing all over the world. NAFA was held in Isafjordur in the Iceland. knowledge and information. However, visual year 2008 and due to it’s success and positive impact on anthropologists have faced obstacles in finding a the local community,, Isafjordur was chosen once again 2. Recreational program (Saturday- common platform for bringing scholars, informants and to host the festival. Sunday), Patreksfjordur, Iceland. locals together to share text, images and videos. NAFA 2014 is dedicated to explore and find out the A website for the festival will be established. In the During the first part of the program, there will be two possibilities of sharing information. meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly by main activities offered during the festival days email: [email protected] (Wednesday-Saturday). The most important activity The festival will provide a venue for meeting film or check Facebook of Nordic Anthropological Film will be of course the film festival inviting to see films professionals and academics in front of the general Association (NAFA) where more information will be from 17.00-23.00 each day. The films will be followed audience and present films from all over the world that posted incl. a notice when the registration for the by a 15-20 minute discussion after each film. For those help us understand otherness and acknowledge festival is open: filmmakers that are not present, there will be a Skype NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 4 conference arranged after each film session. There will providing the guests with an opportunity to travel to anthropology background and let them to see local be approximately 16 hours of films, and 3 hours of Patreksfjordur, is to introduce them to another film documentaries. Instead of arranging some local film discussions during the whole festival. Another festival called the Skjaldborg Documentary Festival directors representing their films for our NAFA important part of the program of NAFA film festival (http://en.skjaldborg.com) that focuses on new program, we bring our guests to experience a fresh 2014 will be be symposium/workshop that will run Icelandic documentaries. It is quite similar to NAFA Icelandic documentary scene. Even more important from 9.00-15.00 each day with an hour break for lunch Film Festival concept in a way that the festival goal for us is to invite local audience from all over of the in between. The symposium/workshop will cover about organizers want to provide filmmakers and country - all documentary film lovers to start their 12 hours during the whole event. documentary enthusiasts with an opportunity to see journey of watching films, attending the symposium documentaries that struggle with limited access to from Wednesday, 4th of June and move to During the recreational part of the festival’s program, television and movie theaters, Skjaldborg presents a Patreksfjordur from Saturday to Sunday. the guests of the festival will take a tour from Isafjordur selection of movies, long, short, weird, cheap and to Patreksfjordur in the Westfjords of Iceland. There expensive, which otherwise would not reach the wider will be a few touristic spots that are interesting to see public. Therefore, our intention is to bring our along the way to Patreksfjordur. The biggest reason of international guests them coming mostly from visual

Call for films: The 11th International Ethno Film Festival, Croatia

Dear Sir or Madam,

The 11th International Ethno film Festival - the Heart A copy of the film on a DVD (PAL) and a printed Thank you for your cooperation of Slavonia is a part of the 5th manifestation application are to be sent by post to the following Djakovacki rezovi in Djakovo (Republic of Croatia) address: Sincerely, which takes place from the 19th to 21st June 2014. We FKK Djakovo For The heart of Slavonia PP 80 31400 Sanja Bjezancevic hereby invite you to sign up and participate in the Djakovo Republic of Croatia President of Djakovacki rezovi competition for the Golden Heart of Slavonia. The duration and filming techniques are not set. The Djakovacki rezovi Besides the projections the festival offers contents such goals of this festival are to create a creative and casual Vijenac k. A. Stepinca 10 as photography exhibitions, promotions, concerts and a atmosphere for exchanging ideas and also to be a unique p.p. 26 variety of cultural and art workshops. and distinctive place to meet with the film industry that 31 400 Djakovo, Croatia revives old traditions and culture. For more information and download of application Gsm. 00385 (0)91 734 1887 form, please visit: All authors will be informed regarding to the final E-mail. [email protected] / Web: www.rezovi.eu selection of films. [email protected] Filled application should be sent by E-mail to: Web: www.rezovi.eu / fkk-djakovo.net [email protected]. For any questions you can feel free to contact us at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Đakovački- Applications and copies of the films will be accepted [email protected]. rezovi/176732669039889?ref=ts until May 1st, 2014. NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 5

Call for films: ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2014 Submissions are now open for documentarists while exposing real life and real people ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2014! http://www.astrafilm.ro/ on the big screen, and interact with professionals and with an enthusiastic audience. The Festival will take place between 6. and 12. October AFF SIBIU is a major event in the European film in Sibiu, Romania. community. The Festival is located in Sibiu – Romania, We are looking forward to receiving your films! and it is unique in this part of Europe. It is the place to Submission deadline: April 15, 2014. see great documentaries, to feel the pulse of Astra Film Festival EasternEuropeam and Romanian documentary film

Please read the Rules & Regulations carefully, and fill in production, meet fellow-filmmakers from around the the online submission form at world, debate upon major issues faced by

Call for films: 2014 International Film Festival

Dear Friends,

The 2014 Jean Rouch International Film Festival is now We are looking forward to receiving your film The Festival selects films that document and explore open for entries. submissions and send our best wishes for the New human societies and cultures in their many facets, such Year. as, social and cultural diversity, continuity and change, The deadline to submit a film is 15th April 2014. relationship with the environment… With our very best regards. We welcome submissions of documentary films made • Entries must have been completed after 1st by anthropologists, students, and professional January 2013. The Organizing Committee filmmakers, without restriction to theme and length. Barberine Feinberg, Françoise Foucault, Laurent Pellé • All films are to be submitted via DVD or

online screener (private Vimeo link available Organized by the Comité du Film Ethnographique, this The Festival Jean Rouch, previously known as Bilan du until November 15th 2014). international film festival is held in Paris (France). Each FIlm Ethnographique, was created in March 1982 by • Only French and English versions are year, it brings together filmmakers, academics, students anthropologist a nd filmmaker Jean Rouch. accepted. and producers, in an attempt to promote discussions Over the past thirty years, the Festival’s aim has been to • You will find the online entry form on our and debates amongst ethnographic film practitioners showcase the most innovative and relevant trends in website, http://comitedufilmethnographique.c and their many publics, and to favour the diffusion and ethnographic filmmaking, visual anthropology, and to om/inscription-entry-form/ the distribution of the films. promote dialogue between cultures.

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Call for films: The First Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the Middle East and Central Eurasia

The First Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the and related topics. Our program accompanied by a synopsis, a 10-line description and Middle East and Central Eurasia, Estonia. encompasses all areas of the contemporary Middle East technical data no later than 30 April 2014. and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Venue: China), including topics on minority groups and Delivery and return policies Tallinn University, Estonia, 31 July and 3 August 2014. religious themes. - All entries submitted must have received their first public screening on or after 1 January 2013. Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2014 Our first program will be held during the 13th EASA - All participants must cover all costs related to the Biennial Conference, at Tallinn University, Estonia, delivery of preview and screening copies. We are pleased to announce the first Ethnographic between 31 July and 3 August 2014. We invite and - We will not return the preview and screening copies. Film and Media Program of the Middle East and encourage all students, anthropologists, documentary - All entries should be sent to: Central Eurasia, which will be held annually in filmmakers and media artists to participate in our conjunction with the Anthropology of the Middle East program by submitting ethnographic videos, films Dr. P. Khosronejad and Central Eurasia Network of the European (including online and cell phone styles, short and Visiting Overseas Associated Professor Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). feature-length films) as well as interactive media National Museum of Ethnology http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.sht (websites, hyperlinked documents, etc.). 10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita ml Osaka 565-8511, Japan

Deadline Email: [email protected] The goal of our program is to promote original ethnographic films and visual media not only in the area Films and other materials submitted for the program of anthropology but also in sociology, folklore, religion, should be sent online or as DVD preview copies,

Call for films: The 5th "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" Festival in Moscow

Dear friends,

We invite documentary film submissions to be screened on audiovisual anthropology for scholars and Filmmakers are kindly asked to submit: during the 5th "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" Festival practitioners devoted to the issues of traditional culture in Moscow from September 24 to September 30, 2014. in post-traditional society. • a DVD- copy of the film with the English subtitles; The festival will comprise a general screenings program, The organisers invite filmmakers and scholars working • transcript of the soundtrack in Russian and / or special screenings programs entitled "Anthropology of in the fields of ethnography and anthropology, and in English (Word format); work", "Anthropology of city", and XII International other related disciplines to participate in all the events. • Registration Form filled out in Russian and/or Seminar English. NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 7

No fee is required. Contact information: Sciences The organizers apologize for not being able to return E-mail: Faculty of philosophy the submitted materials. [email protected] , [email protected] National Research University Phone/Fax: (495)250-68-38, (495)250-68-41, Higher School of Economics Submission deadline for registration forms and films is Ekaterina Trushkina 20, Myasnitskaya str., 101000, Moscow, Russia May 1, 2014. Web: http://ethnocinema.ru/ Phone: +7(495)772.95.90*2703

To post films, please use the following address: Best regards, 20, Myasnitskaya str., 101000, Moscow, Russia, Higher School of Economics, faculty of philosophy, c/o Victoria Chistyakova, PhD Ethnocinema Days Department of Cultural

Call for films: Society for Visual Anthropology 2014 Film & Media Festival

OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES minutes - and under 120 minutes. well as distributors broad access to a market of several Please Note: SVAFF prefers feature films that are closer thousand anthropologists and educators. to 50 - 90 minutes in length. We encourage filmmakers Please visit: with feature films longer then 120 minutes to submit a Ethnographic media is defined broadly as works created https://www.withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t_fin_ shorter, edited version of their films. as the result of ethnographic fieldwork or those which fest_01over.php?festival_id=10082 use, are informed by, or illustrate the principles of anthropological theory or methods. Interactive media & audio-visual presentations Deadline for entries: March 15, 2014 (early deadline); April 15, 2014 Interactive media includes websites, interactive CD- For more information about American Anthropology (regular deadline), May 1, 2014 (late deadline) ROMs / DVD-ROMs / Blu-Ray disks, hyperlinked Associations and its annual meetings, please visit: documents, active or annotated media, etc. www.aaanet.org/meetings

Ultra-shorts Please Note: If your project is selected for this category, Ultra-short ethnographic videos and films under 5 the creator is required to attend SVAFF, and participate minutes. Cell-phone and youtube-style videos ABOUT THE FESTIVAL in a Q&A session with audience members. permitted and encouraged. (Please read carefully before submitting)

Shorts MISSION & OBJECTIVE For the past several decades, the Society for Visual Ethnographic video and films of 30 minutes or less in Anthropology’s Film and Media Festival has screened length. The Society for Visual Anthropology screens the best outstanding work by students, professional ethnographic films, video, and media productions at anthropologists, and professional filmmakers at the Feature length our annual SVA Media Festival, held in conjunction American Anthropological Association’s annual with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) meeting. Ethnographic films and videos with a length of over 30 Annual Meeting. This gives independent filmmakers as NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 8

The American Anthropological Association annual accredited educational institution. Proof of student festival by the jury will be forwarded by the SVA meeting and 2014 SVA Festival will be held December status may be requested. Submissions in noncompliance Festival Committee to the AAA Program Committee. 3-7, in Washington, DC. may be disqualified without refund. If you are a AAA member and wish to attend the annual LAST YEAR'S FESTIVAL Submissions submitted as created by an "SVA Member" AAA meetings, you will still need to register on the must have a named Society for Visual Anthropology AAA website for the conference itself as well as for any In 2013 we received 155 submissions and we accepted member in a key production role (filmmaker, other paper, poster, or panel presentations. and screened 38 films/interactive media projects at our photographer, or director) or as the central festival in Chicago. In total, 24 hours of programming narrator/interlocutor in the film. Pieces done in We invite all filmmakers whose films are programed to was accepted. consultation with an anthropologist should be attend the film festival and conduct a brief Q&A submitted as regular films. Submissions in session after their films are screened. However, SVA ENTRY CATEGORIES noncompliance may be disqualified without refund. does not provide travel support or accommodations for any of its filmmakers. The SVA Film Festival accepts entries in the following categories: JURYING Attendance to the SVA Film Festival is free for

The Festival jury, comprised of anthropologists and filmmakers. We also encourage academic filmmakers Ethnographic video and films: film scholars, selects work to be included in the festival attending the SVA Film Festival to register for the AAA Ultra Shorts - works less than 5 minutes in length on the basis of anthropological relevance and value to meetings, however registration is not mandatory to Shorts - works less than 30 minutes in length the field. Low budget and shorter works receive as attend the screenings at the SVA Film Festival. Feature length - works greater than 30 minutes in careful attention as high budget or longer works. length ORGANIZERS AWARDS Interactive and new media: Harjant Gill (SVA Film Festival Co-Director) ; Jenny Audio/Photo essays The SVA bestows a number of awards each year, Chio (SVA Film Festival Co-Director) ; Karen Interactive websites and new media including the festival’s highest recognition, the Jean Nakamura (SVA Film Festival Czar) Rouch Award given for collaborative and participatory

While the vast majority submissions are non-fiction, the work. Other category based awards include Best festival accepts experimental, dramatic, narrative, and Feature, Best Short, Best Ultra-Short, and Best Student GENERAL RULES other genres as long as they fall within the broad Film (graduate and undergraduate). Please read carefully category of ethnographic media as defined in our mission statement. AAA and SVA REGISTRATION The SVA Film and Media Festival will take every reasonable care to protect the submitted films. In the WithoutABox (WAB) is the official and only way to STUDENT AND SVA MEMBER WORK event of loss or damage while at the festival, the SVA submit films and media for the SVA Media Festival. Film and Media Festival will assume responsibility only Special consideration and reduced entry fees are given for the replacement value of the print or the media. for works created by students and current members of Please note that you do NOT need to also register a Please DO NOT submit master prints, as neither the the Society for Visual Anthropology. film/video submission on the American preview DVDs nor the exhibition DVDs will be Anthropological Association website if all you are doing returned to the filmmaker. Submissions sent as "student work" must have been is submitting a film/video/media production through completed while the submitter was enrolled in an WAB. Films and media productions chosen for the NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 9

Filmmakers and content creators are responsible for Q&A SESSIONS & FESTIVAL lodging. We encourage all of our filmmakers to attend obtaining all applicable consents, releases, permissions, ATTENDANCE the festival, and will happily carve out time for and waivers prior to the media festival. filmmakers to interact with the audience, however due 2014 SVA Film and Media Festival will be held in to lack of operational and financial resources, PRE SCREENERS conjunction with the 113th Annual American filmmakers are request to make travel and lodging Anthropological Association Annual Meetings in arrangements on their own. Preview copies (screeners) of all films must be Washington DC, December 3rd - 7th 2014 postmarked or uploaded by the submitted deadline or (http://www.aaanet.org/meetings) While we encourage filmmakers and mediamakers to will be disqualified. attend AAA meetings, you are not required to register We encourage filmmakers to attend their screenings and for the meeting inorder to attend the SVA Film and EXHIBITION COPIES participate in a question and answer session with the Media Festival. Film festival attendance is free of cost audience afterwards. Media-makers presenting and we encourage you to invite your friends and Final exhibition copies of accepted films must be Interactive Media are required to attend their sessions. colleagues in and around Washington DC area to join received by October 1st, 2014 or the films may be The Q&A time is often limited so please let us know if us. disqualified from the festival program without a refund. you plan to attend as soon as possible and we can set aside some time for you. REFUND POLICY Regardless of the programing outcomes, SVAFF does SVAFF is entirely a volunteer run operation. We not refund submission fees. operate on a shoestring budget, and cannot provide financial support to filmmakers towards travel and

Call for papers: Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East

Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East • Is Middle Eastern Media Studies a periphery or The handbook will articulate the questions of media Editors : Gholam Khiabany, Tarik Sabry, Helga Tawil- should it be regarded as part of a wider project of and culture in the Middle East beyond the limitations Souri (social) science of society? of presentism by focusing on the symbiotic relationship • Does it have a particular hermeneutics? that exists between both old and new media. It also The aim of the Handbook of Media and Culture in the • How do we address the particularities of the promises to highlight the role (and meaning) of culture Middle East is to direct attention to the multivalent and region while also considering broader socio- as a dynamic site of struggle and contestation. The multi-local characteristics of knowledge production, cultural and media shifts? handbook is also an attempt to test some prevailing media, and culture in the region. It highlights the approaches regarding the role of empire, among other necessity, once again, of the need and the possibilities of While challenging the provincialism of perceived exogenous and endogenous factors, and its going beyond the false binaries, and of speaking with a 'universal' theory of media and society, this handbook consequences for culture and politics. 'third voice'. It addresses key questions such as: also highlights the perceived 'alternative', i.e. militant particularism, which is just the flipside of the vacuous The handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to universalism it deplores, rather than a genuine media and culture in the Middle East and brings alternative to it. together internationally recognised scholars from NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 10 around the world. The more recent revolutionary key empirical research and possible future directions. For further information about the handbook, or to fervour in the Arab World has further brought the For more information and examples of the series see: submit your abstract, region into the attention of the world like never before. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id- please contact: However, while this collection will certainly be an 410903.html Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University attempt at 'catching history on the wing', to quote ([email protected]) Benjamin, we are seeking contributions, from various Submissions will be assessed for their scholarly merit -- disciplines, that advance our understandings of the past and the extent to which they contribute to our greater Helga Tawil-Souri and present and the struggle for the future of media and understanding of the mediated cultures in the Middle Associate Professor cultural resources, forms of organisations and East. Contributors should limit their articles to between Media, Culture, and Communication expressions, as well as production, distribution, and 6000 and 8000 words (including references). Middle East and Islamic Studies consumption. New York University Abstracts (250 words) are due by 28 March 2014. This volume will be published by Blackwell as part of [email protected] the prestigious series The Global Handbooks in Media Upon acceptance, full articles will be due by 20 October 1-212-992-9437 and Communication Research, designed to define an 2014. intellectual terrain: its historic emergence; its key theoretical paradigms; its transnational evolution, its

MA in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths

DEPARTMENT, GOLDSMITHS, encouraging you to build on these by using visual and The MA in Visual Sociology is offered by the UNIVERSITY OF LONDON sensory methodological practices to carry out critical Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of social research in your areas of interest, such as London. It begun in September 2013, and current contemporary capitalism, ‘race’ and ethnicity, students on the course say this about the programme Exploring sociological issues through visual, sensory and inventive postcolonialism, gender and sexual cultures, human and their reasons for studying on it: methods rights, biotechnology, globalisation or other aspects of social life. ‘My initial background is graphic design, and although I really Drawing on Goldsmiths’ strengths in Visual Sociology, enjoy working with visual media I have always felt I wanted to creative and critical social analysis and experimental The programme combines lectures and seminars with learn more, and perhaps be able to think about the world and my approaches in Science and Technology Studies, this practical sessions and workshop-based projects in role within the world in a more interesting way. […] The MA in programme is designed for students who are interested which you develop a hands-on approach to sociological Visual Sociology was the only course I found that was trying to do in new ways of exploring and understanding the social research, providing a skills base in methods that could something new, trying to use other ways to understand society and world through the use of visual, sensory and other be used in public sector contexts, art/media research, giving space for innovative ways research it. […] I feel that we inventive methods. design or the commercial world. The course is suitable have been giving a lot of space to be experimental and I found all for applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds, the projects we’ve developed so far are very interesting and The MA in Visual Sociology provides an introduction including art, design, anthropology, media and exciting’. to the range of debates in visual and sensory sociology, communications, and sociology. NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 11

‘I have a background in experimental film and came to the MA and would be suited for people looking to explore the possibilities Dr. Michael GuggenheimSenior Lecturer/Senior in Visual Sociology as I wanted to engage with sociological of sensory methods in sociology within academic or other contexts. Research FellowDepartment of SociologyGoldsmiths, methods and theory. The course is challenging and as it's such a I applied to this course because I love Sociology but I didn't want University of London New Cross, London SE14 new discipline students are encouraged to think in innovative and to be confined to traditional text based methods of sharing 6NWUK experimental ways and put those into practice’. knowledge’. ++44 - (0)20 - 7919 7731 [email protected] ‘one of the benefits of the programme is the wide range of methods For further information and contact details: http://www.migug.net which it explores. One can get hands-on experience with http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/guggenheim/# photography, film, sound recording, editing and more. Students http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-visual-sociology/ d.en.37059http://organizingdisaster.net/ are encouraged to bring their own ideas to class using unusual methods like drawing and even cooking. It is highly experimental

CREATIVE ARCHIVES: AUDIOVISUAL THINKING AND MONTAGE SUMMERSCHOOL AT AARHUS UNIVERSITY, JULY 21 – AUGUST 8

• Date: July 21st - August 8th 2014 Today we are producing and accessing audio-visual collections or DFI’s filmic archive in Copenhagen. • Level: Master’s level - 10 ECTS archives in an unprecedented way. As a consequence, Some of this material was produced in film (35 mm, 16 • Target Group: Creative Archives is the line that separates creation and memory has become mm and Super 8), some on VHS-video. In digitized interdisciplinary, and all student groups can porous. This course in Creative Archives focuses on format, these archives can become ‘living archives’ due apply. putting into practice the elaboration and exhibition of to the possibilities in post-production with DV- • Price: ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads short-film essays made with audiovisual archive technology. students MUST pay for the course: materials. We will stimulate the students to work on the selection • Danish and EU/EØS (tomplads): 200 EUR Creative Archives addresses students with an outspoken, and montage of new contextual framings. New contexts NON-EU-EØS students (free-mover): 1717 EUR • creative interest in audio-visual production and offers can open this material to alternative anthropological, • Books, course materials, social programme, and the possibility for hands-on production combined with historical or technological readings. Furthermore, the housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be theoretical insight in audio-visual practice-based selection and creation of new contextual framings will aware of course specific expenses mentioned in thinking. We will develop the skills of students who commence investigations into the visual forms of the description. want to improve their ability to both express themselves communication and narration then and now. audio-visually and think in terms of audio-visual Here is a chance to spend your summer in Aarhus, conceptualization. The archival as well as the actual audio-visual material Denmark focusing on creative ways of dealing with will bring questions about indexing, archival practices audiovisual archives in an interdisciplinary approach The frame for this will be an archive of selected audio- and classifications to the fore. These questions will be together with international students. visual material that in digitized form is made accessible dealt with through elaborate investigations into the via Aarhus University’s DIGHUMLAB. Until recently, (film)historical and archival practices for sound-and- a lot of this material has been accessible through private image production and maintenance. NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 12

Students will be acquainted with various forms of http://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en/coursecatalog/Course/sho Teachers production of sound and image, and they will develop w/49571/ skills in relating practice-based research to theoretical • Organiser: Júlia Machado de Carvalho thinking. Find course pamphlet here: • Teachers: Christian Suhr, Mathias Course description http://www.au.dk/fileadmin/www.au.dk/Internationalt Korsgaard, Jonas Fritsch _Center/Summer_Uni/Kursus_foldere_2014/Creative_ Find full course description in the course Archives_-_Audiovisual_Thinking_and_Montage.pdf • Guest lectures: Sarah Schorr, Peter Ole catalogue here: Pedersen, Arine Kirstein Høgel

EYE & MIND Master's Degree Programme in Visual Anthropology at Aarhus University Deadline for Applications March 15, 2014

Deadline for applications is 15 March. for experimenting with diverse methodologies and form of written articles or monographs excel in their technologies of representation. This is of value not only ability to provide insights into the cultural practices, • Commencement of studies: 1 September. to students and researchers, but also to the museum, norms, rules and institutions by which people live. But • Duration of program: 2 years / 120 ECTS. whose ambition it is to allow visitors to share in the very to engage fully with the complexities of social life, creation of anthropological knowledge. anthropology needs alternative academic languages that allow researchers to explore the role of perception, Visual Anthropology at Aarhus In the autumn of 2013 the new museum building imagination and emotion in human interaction. New opened to students and staff and in the autumn of 2014 social media and audiovisual technologies of University Denmark’s first new-built cultural historical museum communication offer unique possibilities for engaging With the Master’s Degree programme in Visual will be inaugurated. The building adds 16,000 square and bringing into dialogue the whole of the human Anthropology, Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus meters to the museum and thus sets the stage for a sensorium and imaginative capacities. Public University aim to establish a research environment variety of new exhibition opportunities including institutions, private organizations and academia are where students, scholars, artists, film- and exhibition- special editing facilities, lecture halls and exhibition increasingly demanding audiovisual methods that can makers can experiment and develop forms of inquiry space for students in the programme in visual facilitate cross-cultural analysis, dialogue and and representation that allow a close engagement with anthropology. imagination. The overall aim of this programme is to cross-cultural experience and imagination. The new qualify students of anthropology and related disciplines museum site of Moesgaard provides a window through Why Visual Anthropology? to take on the task of audiovisual research, consultancy which students, film- and exhibition-makers can enter and communication in the contemporary world. Anthropologists are increasingly recognizing the need to directly into dialogue with the broad public. Further- broaden the scope of their methodology and analytical more, the museum provides a unique public laboratory The programme is not only designed for students who expression. Traditional academic representations in the wish to become ethnographic film directors or museum NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): News and Announcements 13 curators. The emphasis is on educating full-scale Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA/Swiss Faculty anthropologists with special capabilities in audiovisual citizens analysis and communication. In addition to specific TON OTTO, Head of the Ethnographic Collections, themes in visual anthropology, students attend courses • Students from Denmark and the EU are not Moesgaard Museum and Professor of Anthropology. in general anthropological debates and methodologies. required to pay tuition fee for the graduate Director of prizewinning ethnographic films on socio- This grounding in broad theoretical debates allows program in Visual Anthropology. cultural change in Papua New Guinea. students to engage in audiovisual communication of • Annual tuition fees for non-EU/EEA/Swiss RANE WILLERSLEV, Professor of Anthropology and relevance beyond the specialized field of visual citizens is Euro 9,100 (60 ECTS). Senior Research Fellow at the Aarhus Institute for anthropology. Advanced Studies. Author of books and articles on human perception, cinematic montage and sacrifice. Throughout the programme students produce a How to apply KAREN WALTORP, course developer and number of visual anthropological presentations documentarist, AU. Current PhD-research project with Study Centre Arts, tel: +45 87161087, culminating in the production of a thesis comprised of a Muslim women in Denmark on social media and place- [email protected] visual anthropological product (film, photography, making with smart phones. www.waltorpvium.com museum installation, multimedia) and a written part CHRISTIAN VIUM, photographer and Postdoctoral with further methodological, analytical and • http://kandidat.au.dk/en/anthropology/ Fellow, AU. Has produced a number of photographic representational reflections. Through intensive and • http://kandidat.au.dk/en/guidance/ exhibitions and prizewinning documentaries. ongoing engagement in audiovisual communication, www.christianvium.com students receive skills in operating video and photo cameras, sound recording, composition, video editing as Specific questions about the ARINE KIRSTEIN HØGEL, Postdoctoral Fellow, well as practical experience in designing and managing programme AU. PhD-research in haptic visuality in documentary audiovisual projects. Lecturers with a variety of and ethnographic films. Current research in archival professional backgrounds within the audiovisual material and audiovisual archaeology. production industry provide insight into aspects such as Christian Suhr, tel: +45 31600031, [email protected] THEA SKAANES, curator and leader of the UNESCO development, production, broadcasting and collections, Moesgaard Museum. PhD project about fundraising. • http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/[email protected] power objects and cosmology among the Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. THOMAS FIBIGER, curator and PhD in Admission requirements Programme coordinators Anthropology, Moesgaard Museum. Research on the globalization of heritage and politics of imagination in • A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Aarhus • CHRISTIAN SUHR, filmmaker and Assistant the Arabian Gulf. University (AU) or the University of Copenhagen Professor of Anthropology, Moesgaard, AU. PhD (KU). and film projects about Islamic exorcisms and ANE BONDE ROLSTED, visual anthropologist and • A bachelor’s degree with at least 45 ECTS-points psychiatric healthcare in Denmark. exhibition coordinator. Has produced ethnographic in anthropology (i.e. 75% of a full-time academic films for a number of institutions in Denmark and as year of study). • PETER IAN CRAWFORD, Professor of Visual museum director in Greenland. Anthropology, social anthropologist, filmmaker, SUSANNE HØJLUND, Associate Professor of development consultant and publisher. Anthropology, AU. Research interests include experi- www.intervention.dk mental visual ethnography, childhood and youth, pedagogy, welfare and food culture.

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THE LIFE STORY OF A FILM FESTIVAL documentary filmmaking takes part in this process. The original film will be destroyed and the archipelago will – STARTLING MOMENTS original 17000 Islands film is shot in a propaganda park gradually disintegrate making way for a new living map. in Jakarta, the Taman Mini, built in 1975 to represent The way a user makes films in 17000 Islands is a totally This is a story about people and about cinema. About Indonesia. 17000 Islands Interactive is a website where new way of editing by making a collaged island, a people who make films, people who become the subject users can break apart this original film and make new sculptural way of editing, It includes several cutting- of films, about people who watch films, and whose lives films and viewpoints out of its material. These user edge developements of Html5 functionality. get changed by films. An account on Romanian made films will then be curated and screened at film transition, and on changes in the documentary itself. festivals. Just as the museum park exercises a power over the An open-ended story about ASTRA Film. image of Indonesia, so does the filmmakers’ Enjoy! BACKGROUND documentary exercise a similar power over the image of this park. The directors give away control over their http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYZqVNf9eE The Taman Mini Indonesia Indah or “Beautiful Indonesia film to users so that this simplification of reality can Miniature Park” is a “Disneyland style” theme park in once again regain its complexity. Jakarta built in 1975 by the Suharto regime. It attempts

to present the diverse cultures of Indonesia in a At 17000 Islands, people enter into dialogue by bringing condensed and manicured form – an idealized image of their unique perspectives on reality. Tell your story the 17.000 Islands of Indonesia to manifest the state through image, text, and your own voice-over. motto: Unity In Diversity. INTERACTIVE WEB DOCUMENTARY Please visit: Fascinated by this idealized representation of culture, 17000islandsinteractive.com (you need to use chrome directors Edwin and Thomas Østbye set out with a browser for now) Our project 17000 ISLANDS is a interactive camera to capture life unfolding within this controlled and facebook: documentary dealing with how documentary film makes setting. Their film is presented as a map of impressions. https://www.facebook.com/17000Islands. representations, and the case of Taman Mini Indonesia In 17000 Islands, the filmmakers invite you to participate Indah in Jakarta. in the process of image making. On Vimeo plymserafin you can find excerpts of user films screened at idfa. Directed by Edwin & Thomas Østbye Produced by When the project launches at IDFA 20.11.2013, it will PlymSerafin be your turn to reinterpret the filmmakers’ impressions. Warm regards The web platform becomes, in many ways, a metaphor Thomas Østbye SYNOPSIS for the Park – a beautiful controlled environment that PlymSerafin.com gives you the illusion of authenticity. Users are invited (++47) 41449611 17000 Islands is an interactive documentary. The to break apart the original film, select material they project explores different models of reality by looking would like to use and edit their own films, using our at how an image of a nation is created and how cutting-edge custom built editor. As clips are stolen, the NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): Notice Board 15

TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL College Lecturer, University of Oxford of artworks’ racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the DOCUMENTARIES ONLINE FOR FREE Language Centre, University of Oxford, 12 Woodstock work of visual culture? Road, Oxford, OX2 6HT

The True/False nonfiction film festival has gathered We also seek to address optical properties of opacity together over 100 films from past True/False Film more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching Fests and made them searchable and available to stream medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and online for free. other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift CALL FOR PAPERS AND CREATIVE in regard to digital technologies as it may between There's an article here WORKS cultural spheres and political territories? How might http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-over-100- visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical films-from-past-true-false-film-festivals-online-now properties of opacity and transparency? InVisible Culture, Issue 22: "Opacity" and the list of films starts here We welcome papers and artworks that further the http://truefalse.org/news/videos/?depth=1&category various understandings of opacity. Possible topics of =video_categories/tffilms For its twenty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An exploration include, but are not limited to: Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly cheers, articles and creative works that address the multiple • Aesthetic and political dimensions of Meg meanings of opacity. transparency and opacity • Identity politics, “the right to opacity”

In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor • Privacy and visibility, surveillance Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining • The “transparent society” and digital to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the panopticism National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero CALL FOR FILM REVIEW • Scientific and medical visualization, the body, and traitor, Snowden’s actions have fueled intense big data public debate regarding issues of privacy and • Opacity of architectural traditions transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors By Pedram Khosronejad • Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict to consider the tension between transparency and • Transparency and globalization, geopolitics opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary • Emerging, established, and decaying that gave rise to their connotations of openness and Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) welcomes democracies secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? film reviews for the third issue of his journal. Should • Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial The late writer, poet, and critic Édouard Glissant (1928- you like to review a particular documentary or send us space and material 2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of one to review please email the film review editor: Dr • Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness creating ethical relationships, writing in Poetics of Relation, Michael Abecassis directly to: (michael.abecassis@mod- and light, color, pigmentation “Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the langs.ox.ac.uk) • Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world (painting, film, sculpture) in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of For general enquiries and Instructions for Authors, • Penetration and resistance the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.” please visit: How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropologyiran/acme What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): Notice Board 16

Please send completed papers (with references VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY IS ONLINE In The Complete Sol Worth, editors Larry Gross and following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Jay Ruby collect all of Sol Worth's published writings, Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to as well as some unpublished writings, extensive photo ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY essays, and articles about Worth’s work. Inquiries should be sent to the same address. Vol. 2, n. 2, December 2013 Sol Worth’s work remains relevant and influential in Creative/Artistic Works is online at the following url: www.vejournal.org visual communication and anthropology, and the e- In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is book format enables an accessible collection of the accepting work in other media (video, photography, entirety of his contributions. Readers can also access Teaterri, a video documentary that Worth drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details produced which is part of a permanent collection at the concerning acceptable formats, go to Museum of Modern Art in New York. http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact NEW E-BOOK ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. We hope this collection will introduce new readers to THE COMPLETE SOL WORTH Sol Worth’s contribution to bettering our understanding of visual communication, culture, and Reviews InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions life. for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 USC Annenberg Press Publishes E-book words). To submit a review proposal, go to The Complete Sol Worth Published December 13, 2013 and available in Kindle http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact version at Amazon.com ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com. One of the central figures in the development of the study of visual communication, Sol Worth (1922-1977) Blog was a filmmaker and painter before he turned to The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, academic pursuits. He began with the question of how which will accommodate more immediate responses to film could be understood and studied as medium of NEW BOOK the topic of the current issue. For further details, please communication, and from there, he moved on to larger contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with and more profound questions about the nature of visual the subject heading “blog submission.” media in general and the role that visual images play in Aline Gubrium and Krista Harper shaping and constructing reality. He is perhaps best Participatory Visual and Digital Methods known for the “Navajo Film Project” that he 2013, Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press * InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture conducted with anthropologist John Adair in which (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal they gave 16mm cameras to Navajo residents of the Gubrium and Harper describe how visual and digital published online twice a year in an open access format. Pine Springs, Arizona reservation in order to explore methodologies can contribute to a participatory, public- Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and how people who had never made or used movies would engaged ethnography. These methods can change the reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues do so for the first time. How would their movies reflect traditional relationship between academic researchers explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a their own culture and their ways of seeing and telling and the community, building one that is more global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates about their experiences? The book,Through Navajo accessible, inclusive, and visually appealing, and one the power and limits of vision. Eyes, included here, became enormously influential in the fields of anthropology, communication and cinema that encourages community members to reflect and

studies, among others. engage in issues in their own communities. The authors describe how to use photovoice, film and video, digital NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): Notice Board 17 storytelling, GIS, digital archives and exhibits in media studies that highlight the continuities between Praise participatory contexts, and include numerous case old and new media, and a range of works that have studies demonstrating their utility around the world. made critical interventions in the field of Iranian "Using a highly original and unique approach, Akhavan charts studies, Niki Akhavan traces key developments and unknown territories in the vast Iranian blogosphere ranging from

confronts conventional wisdom about digital media in state to dissident voices." general, and contemporary Iranian culture and politics -Negar Mottahedeh, author of Displaced Allegories: in particular. Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema NEW BOOK Akhavan focuses largely on the years between 1998 and "A fascinating account of a key geopolitical media event of the 2012 to reveal a diverse and combative virtual landscape 21st century: the struggle to define, contest and control the Iran Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of where both geographically and ideologically dispersed Internet." an Online Evolution individuals and groups deployed Internet technologies -Monroe Price, Annenberg School for Communication Niki Akhavan (Author) to variously construct, defend, and challenge narratives of Iranian national identity, society, and politics. While Series: New Directions in International Studies it tempers celebratory claims that have dominated assessments of the Iranian Internet, Electronic Iran is http://www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Electron ic-Iran,5014.aspx ultimately optimistic in its outlook. As it exposes and assesses overlooked aspects of the Iranian Internet, the Description book sketches a more complete map of its dynamic Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian landscape, and suggests that the transformative powers Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, of digital media can only be developed and understood transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces. if attention is paid to both the specificities of new Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that technologies as well as the local and transnational stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a contexts in which they appear. site and product of cultural production, accounts in

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Events marked with bold are those still open for entries. March 5-9, 2014 April 1, 2014 The 44th International Tampere Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo It’s All True International Documentary Film Tampere, Finland. Festival, Brazil February 27-March 2, 2014 Deadline for entries: 1st Dec 2013 Deadline for entries: December 16, 2013 Columbia, True/False Film Festival 2014, Colombia, Web: http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi Web: http://www.itsalltrue.com.br/2013/home2.asp Missouri Deadline for entries: Passed March 7-16, 2014 April 2-13, 2014 Contact: http://truefalse.org/ Austin, SXSW Film Festival 2014, Austin, TX Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente 2014, Deadline for submission: December 13, 2013 Argentina March 1, 2014 Contact: http://sxsw.com/ Deadline for entries: December 20, 2013 London Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2014 Web: Deadline for entries: Dec 10, 2013 March 10-14, 2014 http://festivales.buenosaires.gob.ar/bafici/home/web/ Contact: http://ff.hrw.org/london 7th edition of Days of Ethnographic Film, es/index.html Ljubljana, Slovenia March 3-12, 2014 Submission deadline: December 1, 2013 April 3-4, 2014 The 16th edition of the One World International Contact: [email protected] Futures of Visual Anthropology Conference "Beyond Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Web: www.def.si the Lens" Prague, Czech Republic. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Deadline for entries: 15th November 2013 March 14-23, 2014 Project formats may include (but are not limited to): Contact: Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2014, Greece Film, Photography, One World/People in Need Deadline for entries: Nov 15, 2013 Visual and Performance Art, Posters, and Paper Safarikova 635/24 Contact: www.filmfestival.gr Presentations. 120 00 Prague 2, Czech republic Deadline for submissions: February 3, 2014. tel. +420 226 200 400 March 15-22, 2014 http://vastmosphere.wordpress.com/ E-mail: [email protected] 11th World Film Festival Web: http://www.oneworld.cz/ow/festival Tartu, Estonia April 16-27, 2014 Submission deadline: October 20, 2013 Tribecca Film Festival, New York, USA March 4-14, 2014 Contact: [email protected] Deadline for entries: Nov 11, 2013 Tempo Dokumentärfilmfestival 2014, Sweden Web: www.worldfilm.ee Web: http://tribecafilm.com/festival For submission, contact: [email protected]. March 20-30, 2014 April 17-20, 2014 E-mail: [email protected] 36rd Festival Cinéma du reel, Paris, France Etnografilm Festival Web: http://www.tempofestival.se/english/ Deadline for entries: Passed. Paris, France Web: http://www.cinemadureel.org/en Submission deadlines: passed Web: http://ethnografilm.com/ NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): Calendar 19

April 24-25, 2014 May 6-12, 2014 To submit your film, please use the online form on 6th ETNOFILm – International Festival of 24th African, Asian and Latin America Film Festival, the new NAFA testsite (nativemind.org) or the Ethnographic Film, rovinj, Croatia Milano, Italy. temporary site (nafa.h.uib.no). In a not too distant Contact: Ethnographic museum of Istria Trg Istarskog Deadline for entries: January 18, 2014 future, we will expect a dedicated website for next razvoda 1 52 000 Pazin / Croatia +385/52/622 220 Contact: year’s festival to be up and running. Web: www.etnofilm.com/ E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.festivalcinemaafricano.org June 4-15, 2014 April 24-May 4, 2014 Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia Hot Docs Canadian international Documentary May 7-14, 2014 Deadline for entries: February 27, 2014 Festival, Canada. 29th International Film Festival München DOK.FEST, Contact: Deadline for entries: passed Germany Web: http://sff.org.au/ Web: http://www.hotdocs.ca Deadline for entries: December 18, 2013 Web: http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de June 7-12, 2014 April 25-27, 2014 Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), The Ethnographic Film Review „Eyes and Lenses XI” May 8-14, 2014 UK Warsaw, Poland. Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, Tel Deadline for entries: January 24, 2014 The deadline for submissions: 12 January 2014. Aviv, Israel Contact: Contact: Deadline for entries: December 16, 2013 Web: http://sheffdocfest.com E- mail: [email protected] Contact: Web: www.oczyiobiektywy.art.pl Wb: http://www.docaviv.co.il/en/home June 14-22, 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar April 25-May 3, 2014 May 15-June 8, 2014 Deadline for entries: April 1, 2014 Visions de Réel, International Film Festival, Nyon SIFF 2014 – 40th Seattle International Film Festival, Contact: Deadline for entries: Seattle. Web: http://www.ziff.or.tz/2013/09/04/ziff2014- Oct. 11, 2013 / January10, 2014 Deadline for entries: January 6, 2014 film-entry-now-open/ Contact: Contact: Visions du Réel Web: http://www.siff.net/festival-2014 June 18-29, 2014 Place du Marché 2 The 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), CH – 1260 Nyon May 28-June 1, 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland. Tel: +41 22 365 44 55 12th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Deadline for entries: Dec. 17, 2013/ Feb. 4, 2014 /Feb. Fax: +41 22 365 44 50 Festival 18, 2014 E-mail: [email protected] Submission deadline: 15th December 2013 Web: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/ Web: http://www.visionsdureel.ch Web: http://www.gieff.de/ July 2014 April 30-May 11, 2014 June 4-8, 2014 EASA biennial Conference in Tallin, Estonia Documenta Madrid, X! International Film Festival 34th Nordic Anthropological Film Association Film Deadline: December 9, 2013 Madrid, Spain Festival Web: www.easaonline.org Deadline for entries: January 31, 2014 Ísafjörður, Iceland Contact: http://www.documentamadrid.com/en Deadline for film entries: 6 April 2014

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July 1-7, 2014 conjunction with the 13th EASA Biennial Contact: Festival International de Documentaire de Conference, at Tallinn University, Estonia. E-mail: Marseilles – FIDMARSEILLE, France Deadline for submission (ethnographic videos, [email protected] , ethnocinema.days@gmail Deadline for entries: March 10, 2014 films (including online and cell phone styles, short .com Contact: and feature-length films) as well as interactive Phone/Fax: (495)250-68-38, (495)250-68-41 , Web: http://www.fidmarseille.org/index.php/en/ media (websites, hyperlinked documents, etc.): Ekaterina Trushkina April 30, 2014 Web:http://ethnocinema.ru/ July 13-19, 2014 Contact: The Visual Sociology meeting in Yokohama “Visual Dr. P. Khosronejad Challenges in an Unequal World” with a subset of Visiting Overseas Associated Professor October 13-19, 2014 sessions focusing on Environmental Visibilities, under National Museum of Ethnology Astra Film Festival - the Sibiu International ISA’s XVIII World Congress of Sociology, in 10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita Festival for Documentary Film Yokohama, Japan. Osaka 565-8511, Japan Sibiu, Romania Deadline for papers: September 30, 2013 Email: [email protected] Deadline: 15 April 2014 Contact: Web: Web: http://www.astrafilm.ro/ Program coordinator for WG03, Regev Nathansohn http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.sht University of Michigan (USA) ml October 20-26, 2014 E-mail: [email protected] 33rd Uppsala Kortfilmfestival Web: August 25-31, 2014 Uppsala, Sweden https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi Odense International Film Festival, Odense, Deadline for entries: May 31 2014 Denmark. Web: www.shortfilmfestival.com/ July 31-Aug.3, 2014 Deadline for entries: April 1, 2014 EASA Annual Meeting 2014: "Collaboration, Intimacy E-mail: [email protected] October 23-28, 2014 & Revolution: innovation and continuity in an Web: www.filmfestival.dk The 17th International Documentary Festival interconnected world” Jihlava, Czech Republic Deadline for submission: January 13, 2014 September 19-24, 2014 Deadline for entries: Deadline for films produced Contact: 25th Nordic Panorama – 5 Cities Film Festival, in 2013: April 30, 2014. Deadline for films produced Carlo A. Cubero, PhD Malmö, Sweden. in 2014: June 30, 2014. You can also submit a rough Department of Social & Deadline for entries: Festival Competitions: Films cut of your film to July 31, 2014. Estonian Institute of Humanities completed in 2013: 15 February and films Web: www.dokument-festival.cz 5 Uus Sadama #305 completed in 2014: 1 May. Market: Films Tallinn, Estonia 10120 completed in 2013: 1 May and films completed in October 23-26, 2014 Web: 2014: 1 August Film Festival, the American http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2014/cffil E-mail: [email protected] Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. m.shtml Web: http://www.nordiskpanorama.com Deadline for entries: April 1, 2014 Contact: July 31-Aug. 3, 2014 September 24-30, 2014 Web: http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret- The first Ethnographic and Media Program of the The 5th Days of Ethnographic Cinema Festival in mead-film-festival Middle East and Central Eurasia, held in Moscow, Russia. Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2014 NAFA Network vol. 21.1 (March 2014): Calendar 21

November 6-16, 2014 Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual May 13-17, 2015 CPH:DOX 2014 – Copenhagen International Film Meeting, Washington DC, USA. freiburger film forum – afrika l amerika l asien l Festival, Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2014 (early ozeanien Copenhagen, Denmark deadline); April 15, 2014 (regular deadline), May 1, Deadlines: not yet set Deadline for entries: June 2 for films completed 2014 (late deadline) Web: http://www.freiburger-filmforum.de between January 2014 - May 2014. For more information and online submission, August 1 for films completed after May 2014. please visit: October 8-15, 2015 Web: www.cphdox.dk https://www.withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t 14th Yamagata International Documentary Film _fin_fest_01over.php?festival_id=10082 Festival will be held on: December 4-6, 2014 Deadlines: not yet set Society for Visual Anthropology 2014 Film & Media Web: http://yidff.jp/2015/2015-e.html Festival, held in conjunction with the American