Beatriz Santiago Muñoz's (b. 1972, San Juan, Puerto Rico) projects grapple with the slippery distinctions
between ethnography, fiction, and documentary film and examine the symbolic and material histories of the communities she observes with her camera.
Not exact matches
Through a recent, well - researched
ethnography on the culture and religion of the Paraiyars of Tamilnadu, Robert Deliege confirms the symbiotic relationship
between the religion of the Christian and Hindu Dalits.
Intended as a celebration of small - town values and hospitality as well as a sociological panorama a la Robert Altman's Nashville — its clearest influence as it builds to a musical performance celebrating the town's sesquicentennial and independence — True Stories walks a fine line
between stylized
ethnography and flat - out regional caricature.
Part
ethnography and part journey of discovery, Badhken's narrative never quite finds a comfortable bridge
between the two.
Employing interviews, narrative, photographs, and other documentation, the film capitalizes on the tension
between art and
ethnography.
As in much of her practice, Kohlmann's installation oscillates
between real and mythical narratives, constructing a fictional
ethnography composed of artifacts that transcend the boundaries
between traditional handcraft, pop aesthetics, costume, spiritualism, art and science.
His curatorial work follows his filmmaking, which unfolds
between experimental cinema and a form of speculative
ethnography; he calls it «psychedelic
ethnography.»
Between 2014 and 2017 she joined the Sensor
ethnography lab and the Film Study Center of Harvard University.