Courses
For a list of the past Visual Anthropology classes please visit:
Overview – Visual Anthropology classes (99 KB)
Practical Seminars
Over two semesters groups of students work on anthropological research- and film projects. The main goal is to experience and work with the medium film in an anthropological framework. Topics are debates on the power of representation, questions of authorship and ethics, as well as dramaturgical questions and forms of narration and montage. In theses courses students learn key skills like media literacy and critique, and to reflect their own (team)work. In their empirical field research they learn und use different techniques of filmmaking and digital editing. The courses are open to and include newer forms of representation and filmmaking styles.
About 70 student productions have been realized since 2000 and almost 200 students made their first experiences with the medium film within the framework of Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Munich. The results have been shown in public televisions, on anthropological film festivals, and have won several prices. Some of the former participants went to film school afterwards, realized independent film projects, or are working now in media professions.
For a list of realized film projects please visit: Productions.
Theory Seminars
Beside the introductory lectures and seminars in Visual Anthropology and Media Anthropology there are from time to time also specific topics like „African cinema“, „transcultural filmmaking“, or „visual cultures in south Asia“.
Image-Discourses
The Online-course „Image-Discourses“ deals with the ubiquity of images in daily life. What are the challenges of new media forms? How do different academic schools deal with images? Which questions do they ask? And what exactly is a discourse anyway? In 12 lessons different dimensions of representativeness are covered interdisciplinary. The spectrum of topics is very broad and based on interdisciplinary questions of production, functions, and perceptions of images in a broader sense. For more information visit: Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern (vhb).
Workshops and Presentations
- Presentation and film discussion with Paul Hockings (24.+25.04.2019) (PDF KB)
- Presentation and discussion: David MacDougall: "Modes of Camera Use in Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking" (SoSe 2018)
- Workshop with David MacDougall: "Montage – from footage to film" (SoSe 2015)
- Workshop "Photography" by Kyrill Hirner (SoSe 2012 and WS 2012/13)
- Workshop "Visual Anthropology in practice and teaching - Perspectives for B.A. and M.A.", 18. - 20.11.2010
- Workshop with David MacDougall, 14.05.2009
- Workshop with Rahul Roy, 8.05.2007
- Was dreht Ihr so? Film exhibition by students for students, Summer symposium of the AG Visuelle Anthropologie of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV), 22.-24.06.2007
- Workshop with Stéphane Breton, 14.-15.07.2006
- Homage to Jean Rouch, talk with Jean Rouch 23.11.2003
Excursions
There are regular excursions to the anthropological film festivals in Freiburg and Goettingen.