With the recent proliferation of smartphones and digital cameras, many anthropologists take images of casual daily life and minor events in the fieldwork. However, most of these images are probably not of dramatic events, but rather fragments that have no meaning beyond that of a record and thus are simply stored as dead data. On the other hand, images such as Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss, for example, which capture only mundane things but appeal to the viewer in more ways than mere documentary footage, tend to be thought of as requiring advanced production techniques. On the other hands, even if the significance of conveying the sensory experience of the field is recognized, it seems that video has been given only a supplementary position to the written word.

Against this backdrop, the goal of this workshop is for anthropologists unfamiliar with video editing to create ethnographic images from video materials that do not show anything special, and to discover in this process the seeds of an argument that can be connected to the anthropology that has been conducted through the written word. Unlike many documentary films, the videos are not edited in chronological order or in the order of events, but rather are categorized and connected according to the sensations, impressions, and themes they bring to the viewer, thereby provoking thought that can be connected to written expression. The workshop will be led by Shu Fujita(TUFS Field Science Commons) and Hiroto Tsuda, a guest lecturer (Akita University of Art), who has been examining and practicing anthropological thinking at the intersection of art and the visual arts.

Date & Time

November 4 (Sat.) 2023, 13:00-18:30

Venue

405

Chair: Shu FUJITA (ILCAA Research Associate)

Admission: Free

Pre-registration is required.Please contact: tufisco-office[at]tufs.ac.jp (TUFiSCo)(please change [at] to @)

Language: Japanese

For registration, please see here.

Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)