Partial Perspectives / Perspectives Partielles
Bilingual creative workshop for the 21st edition of the Festival
International du Film Ethnographique du Québec in Montréal,
designed and facilitated in collaboration with visual
anthropologist Danya Leal Romero, with support from the FIFEQ
committee.
First, a 15-20 minute lecture was provided to familiarize
participants with the history of ethnographic filmmaking, in
particular the invisible power dynamics behind representation in
anthropology. Afterwards, participants worked together to plan,
film, and edit a short ethnographic film sequence on the theme of
partial perspectives, with guidance from the workshop hosts. The
final products were screened at the closing party in the evening.
Scroll to view documentation, workshop materials, and the final products of our participants.
Documentation and Process
Photos by Liana Paré
Workshop Materials
French translation of presentation slides by Titouan Cadoret
Workshop proposal and presentation bibliography
Canals, Roger. (2011). “Jean Rouch: An Anthropologist of the
Borders.” Revista Digital Imagens da Cultura/Cultura das imagens,
1, 63–82.
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in
Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist
Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1988, pp. 575–99. JSTOR,
https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066.
Henley, Paul. (2020). Entangled Voices: The Complexities of
Collaborative Authorship. In Beyond Observation: A History of
Authorship in Ethnographic Film (pp. 175–196). Manchester:
Manchester University Press.
Marcos Ramos, María. (2021). “The Female Gaze in Ethnographic
Documentary Film Reassemblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982).” Revista
Estudos Feministas, Florianópolis, 29(1), e66150, 1–10.
Nichols, Bill. (2001). “Documentary Film and the Modernist
Avant-Garde.” Critical Inquiry, 27(4), 580–610.
Pink, Sarah. (2009). “Situating Sensory Ethnography: From Academia
to Intervention.” In Doing Sensory Ethnography (pp. 7–23). London:
SAGE Publications Ltd.
Pink, Sarah. The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the
Senses. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415357647.
Ramella, Anna Lisa, et al. (2017). “Introduction: Mobile Digital
Practices. Situating People, Things, and Data.” In Digital Culture
& Society: Mobile Digital Practices, 3(2), 5–18.
Ruby, Jay. (1975). “Is an Ethnographic Film a Filmic Ethnography?”
Studies in Visual Communication, 2(2), 104–111.
Steyerl, H. (2012) In Defense of the Poor Image. In The Wretched
of the Screen. (pp. 31-45). Berlin: Sternberg Press.
Trinh, T. Minh-ha. (1982). Reassemblage [Film].