GENTE DE FAJÃS
Portugal, 2009, 59 min
António Joao Saraiva
30.01.2010 20:45
Fajãs, living between the seaside and the cliffs...
between the sharing and the silence...
between the music and the faith...
People taking their time..
This documentary intends to participate in the understanding of the life of people who were emigrated and returned and others who have just arrived.
Award: Grande Prémio de Festival Cinema Antropológico, Lisboa 2009
Language of dialogues: Portuguese
Language of subtitles: English
In Berlin, young self-employed workers live the alternative to a nine-to-five job – low rents and space for creative ideas are still available. A sewing café owner, a freelance journalist and two contemporary dancers give insights in theirs live styles and tell about their independent work. The protagonists are not only part of berlin´s creative class buut they also represent a part of well-educatted generation, who struggles between job insecurity and th wish of self-realization.
In the summer of 2001 the IWF in Göttingen hosted the conference »Origins of Visual Anthropology – Putting the Past Together«. Important representatives of the field came together to discuss the history of the subdiscipline. Three students were equally interested in their visions about »The Future of Visual Anthropology«. They conducted brief interviews concerning this question with filmmakers and scholars such as Jean Rouch, Ian Dunlop, Paul Henley, Karl Heider, Howard Morphy, Peter Crawford, Harald Prins and Jay Ruby.