Festival of Visual Anthropology and Video Art

INTIMATE LENS

http://www.intimatelensfestival.com/ [6]

Call for movies – Second edition
Intimate Lens – Festival of Visual Anthropology and Video Art
Organized by B.R.I.O. Brillanti realtà in osservazione e BAGARIA,
Tradizioni a Confronto, in collaboration with Comune di Caserta,
Provincia di Caserta, Regione Campania

Time Frame: From December 6 to 9, 2012

LOCATIONS: Complesso Sant’Agostino, Reggia di Caserta, OfCA,
Labyrintho - Caserta. Locations, dates and final hours may vary after
the call for movies. Every change will be communicated immediately to
the authors.
Intimate Lens: Festival of Visual Ethnography is intended to promote
documentary cinema with particular attention to anthropological topics
and methodologies. The international character of the festival is both
desirable and unavoidable because of the specific character of the
discipline and of the medium of film itself. Even in this second
edition we have chosen not to focus on specialist themes but instead
to offer an array of work representing different filmic idioms and
geographical areas of interest. The festival will have two main
sections, both with no restriction on topics: the first one with
requested movies and the second one will be a contest. The same
structure is proposed also for the video art festival. The aim of this
enrichment is to find a common language, or at least common
intentions, about the anthropological object and the even different
perspectives that may be privileged.
The selection will be made by the international committee appointed by
the organization of the Festival. A first selection will be done in
October 2012, to choose the participant movies to all sections. The
same committee, in November 2012, will finally indicate the award
winners of the sections and of the special mentions. They will receive
the award during the congress organized the last day of the festival,
December 9, 2012 at Royal Palace in Caserta.

CONTEST SECTIONS
1) ETHNOGRAPHIC MOVIES: there will be 3 sections, free registration e
no age limit. Movies can be sent from May 1st, 2012 to September 30th,
2012 via mail. The package must contain:
• 2 copies for each movie, DVD format (no dvd data), with written
name and last name of the director, title of the movie, and bearing
the words “Intimate Lens – Ethnographic movies”.
• A cd with:
- A brief abstract of no more than 10 lines, with the specification of
location and dates of the filming;
- A brief bio of the director in .doc, .docx or .pdf format (no more
than 15 lines);
- The registration card, signed and scanned;
- The release form, signed and scanned;
- No more than 3 images illustrating the movie in jpg format, high
resolution. Authorization for the publishing of the possible catalog
is assumed and it is intended with no charge;
- An optional video-presentation of the proposed work, no more than 1
minute, high resolution in .mov or .avi format, for every video.
- No pre-selected topics, but directors must conform to
anthropological themes and method. The sections are:
- VERY SHORT: no more than 5 minutes, with titles
- SHORT: no more than 15 minutes, with titles
- DOCUMENTARY: no more than 30 minutes, with titles
- INVITATED MOVIES: no contest section. The organization holds the
right to add movies run but not selected for the contest, or
documentaries of more than 30 minutes, even if without captions in
English, in this section, if considered of international interest.
Movies must be in high definition, published or unpublished but not
presented in the first edition of the festival. Subtitles in English
are mandatory if the languages in the movies are not English, because
of the international character of the festival. No restriction about
the date of production. Directors may present no more than 3 movies
(even on the same DVD, but in this case a starting menu is mandatory).
All the required requisites must be respected or the movies may be
excluded from the festival. The director will hold all the
responsibilities in regard of copyrights, releasing the organization
of the festival from any responsibility.
AWARDS
• The selected winner will be awarded with the prestigious book
Fabula Plurima, Frammenti Editore, 2010, Caserta, dim. 35x50., by the
anthropologist Augusto Ferraiuolo and with original painting of Enzo
Toscano, published in limited edition of 99 copies.
• The special mentions “intimalente” and
“intimatelens” will be awarded to authors suggesting
innovations and original themes. The award in this section does not
exclude other awards.
• Awards are offered by selected sponsors.
2) VIDEO ART: one section, free registration and no age limit for this
contest. Movies can be sent from May 1st, 2012 to September 30th, 2012
via mail. The package must contain:
• 2 copies for each movie, DVD format (no dvd data), with written
name and last name of the director, title of the movie, and bearing
the words “Intimate Lens – Video Art”.
• A cd with:
- A brief abstract of no more than 10 lines, with the specification of
location and dates of the work;
- A brief bio of the director in .doc, .docx or .pdf format (no more
than 15 lines);
- The registration card, signed and scanned;
- The release form, signed and scanned;
- No more than 3 images illustrating the movie in jpg format, high
resolution. Authorization for the publishing of the possible catalog
is assumed and it is intended with no charge;
- An optional video-presentation of the proposed work, no more than 1
minute, high resolution in .mov or .avi format, for every video.
- No pre-selected topics, but directors must conform to
anthropological themes and method.
Movies must be in high definition and no longer than 3 minutes. No
restriction about the date of production. Directors may present no
more than 3 movies (even on the same DVD, but in this case a starting
menu is mandatory). All the required requisites must be respected or
the movies may be excluded from the festival. The director will hold
all the responsibilities in regard of copyrights, releasing the
organization of the festival from any responsibility.
AWARDS
• The selected winner will be awarde with a prestigous art work
by Decio Carelli.
• The special mentions “intimalente” will be awarded
to authors suggesting innovations and original themes. The award in
this section does not exclude other awards.
• Awards are offered by selected sponsors.

3) PHOTOGRAPHIC TALES: one section, free registration and no age limit
for this contest. Movies can be sent from May 1st, 2012 to September
30th, 2012 via mail. The package must contain:
• 2 copies of the tales, on CD or DVD format (cd or dvd data),
with written name and last name of the director, title of the movie,
and bearing the words “Intimate Lens – Photographic
Tales”.
• A cd with:
- A brief abstract of no more than 10 lines, with the specification of
location and dates of the work;
- A brief bio of the director in .doc, .docx or .pdf format (no more
than 15 lines);
- The registration card, signed and scanned;
- The release form, signed and scanned;
Proposed photographic tales must be between 3 to 20 photographs, no
restricted topics but with particular regard to anthropological themes
and method. Photographs must be organized in .pdf format or
powerpoint, high resolution (no less than 300 dpi), b/w or colors,
published or unpublished. The organization will not accept retouched
photos, with photoshop or any other software. Each author must present
only on tale. All the required requisites must be respected or the
movies may be excluded from the festival. The director will hold all
the responsibilities in regard of copyrights, releasing the
organization of the festival from any responsibility.
AWARDS
• The selected winner will be awarded with the prestigious book
Fabula Plurima, Frammenti Editore, 2010, Caserta, dim. 35x50., by the
anthropologist Augusto Ferraiuolo and with original painting of Enzo
Toscano, published in limited edition of 99 copies.
• The best 30 photographs will be printed by the organization in
50x70 format and set as exhibit at OfCA and Labyrintho. The exhibit
will be at the organization expenses.
• The special mentions “intimalente” and
“intimatelens” will be awarded to authors suggesting
innovations and original themes. The award in this section does not
exclude other awards.
• Awards are offered by selected sponsors.

All materilas must be sent to the following address:
Associazione Culturale B.R.I.O.
Brillanti realtà in osservazione
Via La Frazia 37
I-82018 Calvi (BN) Italy

Please write on the envelop the inscription “Nessun valore
commerciale, per soli scopi culturali”.
The printed day on the envelope will be considered. In case of late
sending or missing materials the registration will be refused. The
materials will be not send back to the sender but they will become
part of Festival Intima Lente’s archive, and used only for
cultural reasons and only after the author’s consent.
Any inquires may be sent to proidea@associazionebrio.eu

GENERAL RULES

a) Authors will provide for all the expenses for sending. We will not
accept any other forms.
b) Authors will provide for all the expenses concerning the
participation to the festival (trip, hotel, meals, etc.).
c) We will take the best care of the works but we decline every
responsibility for possible lost or damage, no matter what may be the
cause.
d) The application for the Festival implies the acceptance of the
present regulations.
e) In case the work will be awarded and the distributed in Italy or
abroad, the promotional documents must indicate the aprticipation to
the @nd edition of Intimate Lens Festival, with the related logo.
f) Award will be given to the authors during the final day of the
Festival, or to their delegates.
g) The organization of the festival may decide about question not
include in the present regulations.
h) We do not accept work with contents violating copyrights, or
defamatory, pornographic, racist, vulgar, obscene, implicit or
explicit political propaganda or offending personal privacy.

------Workshop
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE REGIONALE ETNOGRAFICO DELLA SARDEGNA

In collaboration with David and Judith MacDougall from the Research
School of Humanities & the Arts, Australian National University will
offer a 7-day VIDEO WORKSHOP IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY 7-13 September
2012 at the Istituto Superiore Etnografico della Sardegna in Nuoro,
Sardegna (Italy).
This workshop is being offered to persons with little or no prior
experience of video production who wish to use video in forthcoming
research projects.
It is open to graduate students and others with at least three years
of tertiary education. The workshop will include basic video training
and theoretical discussions of how video may be applied to research
and publication in anthropology and related disciplines.
The emphasis will be upon the conceptual rather than the technical
side of video practice.
The workshop is intensive and will be conducted all day for each of
the seven days, with morning sessions normally reserved for group
instruction, screenings, and discussion, and the afternoons for
individual practical exercises in and around Nuoro. Although the
workshop will not provide direct instruction in video editing, it will
make use of a strategic approach to filming and "editing in the
camera" so that students will learn to produce materials that can be
edited effectively.
We believe video can be used for field research without extensive
training, provided one learns certain basic skills and overcomes the
most commonly made mistakes. We also believe video can be used to do
more than merely gather visual records. It can be used to approach
knowledge in new ways, in a form of discourse significantly different
from that of written texts. We therefore approach this medium as a new
"language" that researchers can acquire and apply to their own
disciplines.
The workshop will be conducted by internationally-known ethnographic
filmmakers David and Judith MacDougall. The MacDougalls have produced
many ethnographic films and have wide-ranging experience in teaching
ethnographic film and video techniques in Australia, USA, Norway,
India, and China.
Announcement and Application Form can be downloaded from
www.isresardegna.it
Announcement Video Workshop 2012 or requested at
promozione@isresardegna.org

THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS JULY 27 2012

------Ethnographic Terminalia

CALL FOR SUBMISSION

Ethnographic Terminalia seeks submissions for Audible Observatories,
an exhibition to be held in San Francisco in November 2012.
Artist-researchers, collaborators, anthropologists and other
artistically inclined scholars are encouraged to submit their
proposals prior to July 15, 2012.

http://ethnographicterminalia.org/ [7]

---Books

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Heywood, Ian - Sandywell, Barry (eds)
THE HANDBOOK OF VISUAL CULTURE
2012, Berg Publishers

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of
scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture
increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and
methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars
to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbook aims to provide
a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject. The
Handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now
engage in the study of the visual - film and photography, television,
fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy,
architecture, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art
history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the
cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in
visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture,
surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art.
The Handbook guides readers new to the area, as well as experienced
researchers, into the topics, issues and questions that have emerged
in the study of visual culture since the start of the new millennium,
conveying the boldness, excitement and vitality of the subject.

[9]


Signe Rousseau
FOOD MEDIA. CELEBRITY CHEFS AND THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY INTERFERENCE
2012, Berg Publishers

There have been famous chefs for centuries. But it was not until the
second half of the twentieth century that the modern celebrity chef
business really began to flourish, thanks largely to advances in media
such as television which allowed ever-greater numbers of people to
tune in.

Food Media charts the growth of this enormous entertainment industry,
and also how, under the threat of the obesity "epidemic," some of its
stars have taken on new authority as social activists, while others
continue to provide delicious distractions from a world of potentially
unsafe food. The narrative that joins these chapters moves from
private to public consumption, and from celebrating food fantasies to
fueling anxieties about food realities, with the questionable role of
interference in people's everyday food choices gaining ground along
the way.

Covering celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray, and
popular trends like foodies, food porn and fetishism, Food Media
describes how the intersections between celebrity culture and food
media have come to influence how many people think about feeding
themselves and their families - and how often that task is complicated
when it need not be.

---JOURNALS

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VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Vol. 25, n. 3, May-June 2012

Liam M. Brady
ADDING VALUE: RETHINKING LATE 19TH-CENTURY TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER
DRAWINGS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENQUIRY

Sabine Marschall
MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICA: CONTRADICTIONS ANS AMBIGUITIES IN
THE PROCESS OF POST-APARTHEID MEMORIALIZATION

Marga Altena and Eric Venbrux
LIVING PICTURES, REVIVING THE DEAD: CLAIMING RITUAL AND IDENTITY
THROUGH POSTHUMOUS FILMS