Limited access Past event
Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?
The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats).
Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on workshop exploring mediums of still image filmmaking facilitated by Animator, Priit Tender and Anthropologist, Carlo Cubero. Animators and ethnographers each engage in composing rich and complex ‘worlds' having their own special types of consistency. What goes into the making of an animation, and or an ethnography, so that it ‘holds together' as a ‘world'? Taking a comparative approach, we will explore how the rules (including tacit ‘rules of thumb') of ethnography and animation are built up by the ethnographers/animators with and within their communities of practice. The workshop aims to explore ethnography and animation as processes of practical, imaginative and analytic worldmaking.
A 2 hour long workshop focuses on the connection between animation and anthropology. In this workshop participants will be introduced to animation observation techniques that are useful in the field of anthropological research. The participants will receive guidance to produce a still image film in 24 hours.
(Note: A still image film is a film made entirely from photographs.)
Followed by introduction on animation context, you will be shown a programme of still image films describing technical and aesthetic processes of making. Then, participants will work in groups assigned with a color and a question “What is the story of the given color?” Teams are to plan their research and production process followed by presentations the next day.
Recording images and sounds on the spot, the goal is to produce a piece that is made entirely of material collected during fieldwork to reflect on the methodological challenges of producing an ethnography through participant observation. The experience of making a still image film would put you in a position to see the world in a way that is not that different from the way animators work and think, in this case i.e. how animators think about colours and its affordances.
What will you require to bring?
-Some additional time to play around with production, execution and presentation of films
-Smartphones/ Laptops
-Recommendations: Movie Maker, for those using Windows, and iMovie for those using MAC but any other editing software as long as it allows for making slideshows with images.
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