2011 PROGRAMME

Around the World in 90 Films

Plan your days! Explore the full film and sessions programme with prize screenings, workshops, special events. Consult the interactive map of film locations in 38 countries.
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FILM PRIZES AND AWARDS

The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that the following Film Prizes have been awarded at the 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, London, 23rd - 26th June 2011.

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FORMER RAI FESTIVALS

11th RAI Film Festival, 2009
CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University

10th RAI Film Festival, 2007
GCVA, The University of Manchester

7th RAI Film Festival, 2000
SOAS, University of London

The Invention #90

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13:30 hrs, Thrusday 23rd June, Roberts G06
 
 
 
Director: Treasa O'Brien
Year of Release: 2009
Duration: 16 mins
Country of Production: Nicaragua, Ireland
Location: Nicaragua
Language: English
 
 
 
 
This experimental documentary is using the juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated elements to allow a poetic truth to become apparent. An interview with a blind Anglo-Irishman is intercut with imaginary shots of Nicaragua by the interviewer/filmmaker. The man speaks about his visual lexicon, and describes some of the imagery we see on screen, as he has memorized from the descriptions the filmmaker has given him earlier. The construction and production if imagery, notions of unseeing, social construction and ethics of “third world” image production are explored with a provocatively simple mechanism.