The Nordic Anthropological Film Association NAFA is the oldest of its kind in the world, and its festival, consisting of general screenings of ethnographic films, the oldest in Europe, having been held (almost)every year since 1979. As is the case in 2017, the festival is often held in…
Author: Eye and Mind
From Fridolin to the Digital Age
From Fridolin to the Digital Age – The Visual Anthropology of Ethnomusicology A symposium on practice-based research on music around the world Aarhus 1-2 June 2017 When the Danish ethnomusicologist, Andreas Fridolin Weis Bentzon, died, far too young (he was only 35), in 1971, it…
Camera as Cultural Critique
Camera as Cultural Critique: Juxtaposition, Intervention, and Co-creation Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum Aarhus 25-27 May, 2016 Feat. Trinh T Minh-ha, Andrew Irving, Christian Vium, Jennifer Deger, Helle Harnisch, Johannes Sjöberg, Mark Curran, Catherine Russell, Jane Jin Kaisan, Arine Høgel, Ton Otto, Karen Waltop, Peter…
Transcultural Montage
Transcultural Montage Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum Aarhus 24-27 August 2009 “I am kino-eye. I am a builder. I have placed you, whom I’ve created today, in an extraordinary room which did not exist until just now when I also created it.” (Dziga Vertov, 1923) This…