This was a period of tentative beginnings, sporadic activity and blurred genres. The half-century running from the mid-1890s, when moving image camera technology was first developed, to the period of the Second World War in the 1940s constitutes over a third of the total time-span of ethnographic film-making. These films were primarily made forĭocumentation purposes but some anticipated the forms of ethnographicĭocumentary film-making developed after the Second World War. Margaret Mead, who, in collaboration with Gregory Bateson, shot a number ofįilms in Bali and New Guinea. In theġ930s, academic anthropologists in the USA began to make films, notably The Americas, the Soviet Union and Australia were also very active. Initially particularly by German-speaking anthropologists and, after theįirst World War, by French-speaking film-makers associated with museumsĪnd/or with the French imperial project. Itĭescribes how after initial enthusiasm, film-making among BritishĮthnographers declined markedly though elsewhere it was actively pursued, Made for academic research, museums or state-funded educational purposes. Rare, though many had ethnographic qualities. Transfer the exact amount (see our catalogue below) on the following account, please do not forget to mention your address details and the DVD title(s) by using keywords.Before the Second World War, ethnographic films such as we know today were Or be paid via bank transfer and send by postĢ8 € (16 € + 12 € shipping costs overseas and abroard A Self Portrait of James EnsorĭVDs can be bought at the Fonds Henri Storck 16 € Several film portraits had preceded, of dramatist Michel de Ghelderode (1957), of painter René Magritte (1960) and yet of another Belgian painter James Ensor (1991). As a member of the COBRA group he filmed his friends and artists Pierre Alechinsky (1970) and Christian Dotremont (1972). De Heusch has always been a passionate literature and art lover.

Price 16 € Belgian filmmaker and ethnographer Luc de Heusch started his career in Africa, where he developed sharp observation skills that later proved useful for filming in his home country.

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