Project Description
Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Lotte Meinert: Post-traumatic stress disorder and spirits in Uganda Trauma and spirits after the war in Uganda: Is PTSD contagious? After twenty years of civil war in northern Uganda (1986-2006), people have returned…
Special exhibition “Social Contagion”, Moesgård Museum, February 11 – May 14, 2017. Marie Louise Tørring: Reframing Cancer as an Acute Condition Numbers generate belief – belief is catching! Cancer rates are rising in the ageing population of the Western world, but longevity is not the…
The film is called Under Huden (Under The Skin) and is about the tattoo artist Kumar. The film takes place in his and his father’s tattoo studio in Aarhus. Kumar sis was adopted from India to Denmark and got into the tattoo business through his…
On the margins of modern medicine, horses are being used in psychotherapy. Inspired by three months of anthropological fieldwork, the film takes a closer look at one such place in the Pacific Northwest, called ”Animals as Natural Therapy”. Through the stories of three women, interwoven…
“Te Ao Nui O Ngā Hue – The Wide World of the Gourd” is a short experimental film completed in 2016. It explores how taonga pūoro practitioners (traditional Māori instruments form New Zealand) come into dialogue with the voices of the atua, or the multiple deities….
The indigenous community of El Barco, in Chile, has been relocated almost fifteen years ago after the construction of a huge hydro-dam that flooded their ancestral lands. This film aims at exploring life in the Andes, involving the viewer in the struggles of the subjects…
How can we exchange and communicate non-verbal knowledge? And how can the camera be used as a tool in this process? Exchanging Experiments is a short anthropological experiment which tests the borders of camera interaction and intimacy between a performer, a camera and an anthropologist….
‘Breathing Space’ is a portrait film of Cirkuskroen, a pub close to the harbour of Aarhus. The film narrative is constructed so as it seems we are following the pace and the changing atmospheres of the pub for the duration of a day as regulars…
Peter Kovács is a Hungarian man who has chosen to leave his country and belongings behind and openly meet the world around him traveling on his bike. This film follows Peter on part of his journey, taking us through beautiful Danish nature from Aarhus to…
The montage “Passage” is a tale of transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead. At the same time, it explores the understandings of science and humankind prevalent in the ethnography of the past. The film presents a reworking of…