CAFFE - Coordinating Anthropological Film Festivals in Europe
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CAFFE stands for Coordinating Anthropological Film Festivals in Europe. It is an initiative geared towards better cooperation and communication between the existing anthropological film festival
s in Europe.
There are now courses in, and even centres of visual anthropology
at several universities in Europe. An increasing number of students are
enrolling in courses, even short-term courses that merely scratch the
surface of either visual anthropology or ethnographic filmmaking.
Most importantly is the fact that we now have an abundance of film
festivals in Europe that are linked to the fields of visual anthropology,
visual culture, ethnographic film, and other forms of audio-visual
media.
Each event has its own features and foci, reflecting both trends in the
academic environments from which they emanate, as well as the
cultural diversity of the globalised world that surrounds them.
Currently CAFFE network brings together seventeen anthropological and ethnographic film festivals
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
s in Europe.
There are now courses in, and even centres of visual anthropology
Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media...
at several universities in Europe. An increasing number of students are
enrolling in courses, even short-term courses that merely scratch the
surface of either visual anthropology or ethnographic filmmaking.
Most importantly is the fact that we now have an abundance of film
festivals in Europe that are linked to the fields of visual anthropology,
visual culture, ethnographic film, and other forms of audio-visual
media.
Each event has its own features and foci, reflecting both trends in the
academic environments from which they emanate, as well as the
cultural diversity of the globalised world that surrounds them.
Currently CAFFE network brings together seventeen anthropological and ethnographic film festivals
Members of CAFFE
- Astra Film (Sibiu, Romania)
- Beeld Voor Beeld (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Days of Ethnographic Cinema (Moscow, Russia)
- Days of Ethnographic Film (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Dialëektus Fesztivál (Budapest, Hungary)
- Ethnocineca (Vienna, Austria)
- Festival International Jean Rouch (Paris, France)
- Festival of Visual Anthropology (Toruń, Poland)
- Freiburger Film Forum (Freiburg, Germany)
- Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival (Göttingen, Germany)
- Festival of Ethnological Film (Belgrade, Serbia)
- International Visual Anthropology Festival (Moscow, Russia)
- NAFA International Nordic Anthropological Film Association Conference/Festival
- RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film (Leeds, United Kingdom)
- SIEFF Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival (Sardinia, Italy)
- VISCULT - Festival of Visual Culture (Joensuu, Finland)
- WORLDFILM. Tartu Festival of Visual Culture (Tartu, Estonia)
See also
- Ethnographic filmEthnographic filmAn ethnographic film is a documentary film related to the methods of ethnology. It emerged in the 1960s as an important tool for research in the domain of visual anthropology, when filming human groups in society...
- Visual anthropologyVisual anthropologyVisual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media...
- EthnofictionEthnofictionEthnofiction is a neologism which refers to an ethnographic docufiction sub-genre, a blend of documentary and fiction film in the area of visual anthropology. It is a film style in which the portrayed characters play their own roles as members of an ethnic or social group.Jean Rouch is considered...
- American Anthropological AssociationAmerican Anthropological AssociationThe American Anthropological Association is a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological anthropologists, linguistic...
Related articles
- Visual Anthropology - Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, article by Jay Ruby