27.-28.1.2017
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

PROBLEMATIKA ELIT

Česká republika, 2016, 12 min
M. Romanutti
28.01.2017 14:35

The film captures the way in which students spend a typical free night. Within the film we tried to monitore groups of students of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia.
The film was made by four students who study at Faculty of Phylosophy at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. The film was made within the course of audio-visual technology in anthropology.

Director: Marcel Romanutti
Production: Jan Jaňour
Camera: Michaela Fryčková
Script: Ilona Čapková
Edit: M. Romanutti, J. Jaňour

Language of Dialogues: Czech
Language of Subtitles: none

HAYING TIME

Rusko, 2015, 48 min
E. Alexandrov, E. Danilko
28.01.2017 16:00

Krasnovishersky district of Perm Region.Taiga foothills of the Northern Urals. People's life here is determined by forest, which had always fed and given shelter to indigenous Finno-Ugric population. Closely-knit family of Old Believer priests Krechetov tries to resist to widespread destruction of traditional life. Haying time is not the best time to talk with the villagers – all are in the fields from youngsters to orders. ..Except our interlocutors... What are their memories of the remote past? How they respond to their current life? How they live now? What they believe in and what expect?

Evgeny Aleksandrov: Leading research assistant, Doctor of Fine Arts, the head of Visual Anthropology group of The Earth Science Museum at M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University Has about 60 publications on visual anthropology. Producer of video works of CVA MSU (1989 - 2009) Creator and director of the Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology "Mediating Camera"
Elena Danilko: Current position is Doctor of History, Leading research assistant the Institute of Ethnology and Antropology Russian Academy of Science. Executive director of the Moscow International Festival for Visual Anthropology "Mediating Camera"-2010

Director, script: E. Aleksandrov, E. Danilko
Camera: E. Aleksandrov
Edit: Roman Likhacev
Production: Visual Anthropology and Media Lab, Ecocenter of Moscow State University
Festivals: Tartu Worldfilm Festival 2015, Ethnological Film Kratovo 2016

Language of Dialogues: Russian
Language of Subtitles: English, Czech

NOBEL NOK DAH

USA, 2015, 23 min
E. Hong, M.Lai, M.Mihai
27.01.2017 20:00

Nobel Nok Dah offers an intimate view into the lives of three refugee women from Burma, whose migratory paths cross in Thailand and eventually meet when they resettle to central New York. Drawing upon methods of feminist oral history and ethno-fiction, the film traces glimmers of subjectivity that complicate any singular narrative of the refugee experience. As camera movements follow the textures of everyday life and work, a weave of sensorial fragments immerse audiences in women's narratives of self, place, and belonging.

Emily Hong is a Seoul-born and New York-raised feminist anthropologist and filmmaker. A graduate of Columbia University and PhD Candidate at Cornell University, Emily’s research and professional expertise lies at the intersection of legal anthropology, media practice, and economic, social, and cultural rights. Emily has directed several collaborative films including Get By (2014), For My Art (2016), and Nobel Nok Dah (2015), which have explored issues of solidarity and labor, the gendered spectatorship of performance art, and questions of womanhood and identity in the refugee experience.
Miasarah Lai is a Puerto-Rican-Chinese-American director and cinematographer from the Lower East Side, New York City. As an MFA Candidate in Documentary Media at Northwestern University, she explores the physicality and performative role of the documentary cinematographer in the dance between the subject and its storytellers. Miasarah’sHer international body of work has included cinematography and directing for projects in Romania, Ghana, Myanmar, and China.
Mariangela Mihai, a Romanian Anthropology and Film PhD Candidate at Cornell University, has worked on issues of refugee political resettlement at the Emory Center for Ethics and the International Rescue Committee. Her current research looks at overlapping nationalisms, identity and ethnicity on the India-Burma border. Select film projects include: To Uphold the Law (2014), a film exploring ideologies of nationalism and anti-drone activism in Upstate N.Y.; and For My Art (2016), a twochannel video installation exploring the sensorial landscape of transition-era Burma/Myanmar through the figure of the performance artist.

Director, Camera, Edit: E. Hong, M.Lai, M.Mihai
Production: Ethnocine

Language od Dialogues: English
language of Subtitles: English, Czech