Section outline

◄May 23: Time and Openness
►May 25: Pop Culture (XL)

  • Heilman, Jeremy. 2015. “Mock-Doc Pedagogy and the Ethnographic Unconscious – Ben Rivers' Slow Action.” Spectator 35.1: 16–24.

    Dumitru, Luciana. “River Rites: Interview with Ben Russell,”

    https://bieff.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/river-rites-interview-with-ben-russell/

    Débordements. “Ben Russell, 2012: Experiencing the World and (Mis)understanding Culture” http://www.debordements.fr/Ben-Russell-2012

    Questions:

    - How does the film-making practice of these two artist-ethnographers relate to anthropological film as presented in the books you read in the first part of the course?

    Viewing:

    Rivers, Ben. Slow Action. United Kingdom, 2010, 40 min.

    Rivers, Ben. Ah Liberty!. United Kingdom, 2008, 20 min.

    Rivers, Ben. Origin of the Species. United Kingdom, 2008, 16 min.

    Rivers, Ben. The Creation As We Saw It. United Kingdom, 2012, 14 min.

    Russell, Ben. Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget. France – United States, 2013, 20 min.

    Russell, Ben. Black and White Trypps Number 3. United States, 2007, 12 min.

    Russell, Ben. Trypps #6 (Malobi). United States, 2009, 12 min.

    Russell, Ben. River Rites. United States – Suriname, 2011, 10 min.

    Russell, Ben. Greetings to the Ancestors. United States – South Africa, 2015, 29 min.

◄May 23: Time and Openness
►May 25: Pop Culture (XL)