10th RAI INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
27 JUNE - 2 JULY 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
INCORPORATING A MAJOR CONFERENCE:
BEYOND TEXT: SYNAESTHETIC & SENSORY
PRACTICES IN ANTHROPOLOGY
CENTRE FOR SCREEN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES
GRANADA CENTRE FOR
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 1987 - 2007
© Antony Gormley's Waste Man commissioned by Artangel for Penny Woolcock's feature film Exodus
INTO THE FIELD (80)
14:00, Wednesday 27th June, Thaw
Director: Alyssa Grossman (UK)
Year: 2005
Run time: 28'
Location/Ethnic group: Romania/ Romanians
Language: In Romanian with English subtitles
Production/Distribution: Granada Centre, University of Manchester/ DER
Into the Field follows the everyday "secular" lives of nuns in a Romanian Orthodox monastery. Documenting the nuns' activities, relationships and roles within their community, the film also incorporates sequences of stop-motion animation to depict some of the anthropologist's own challenges of working in the field.
