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

Programme

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PROGRAMME   •   STRANDS      VENUES   •   MAP

 

The festival programme may alter at short notice. Further details will be added closer to the event.  

  

Thursday            Friday            Saturday            Sunday

 

THURSDAY 23RD JUNE 2011


 
VENUE
Darwin LT Medawar Lankester British Library
 10:00  
 
1: Preservation – Access – Copyright & IP:

Speakers: Janet Topp Fargion (Moving Image,  World and Traditional Music curator, BL), Chris Morrison (Copyright Assurance Manager, British Library), Brigitte Vézina (WIPO, Geneva, CH), Paul Gerhardt (Archives for Creativity), Michael Eaton (Director; his film Masks of Mer will be screened at the workshop)

2: Relationship between anthropological filmmakers
and archives
Keynote address by Brian Winston

3: Future Archives: (environments for research, viewing, access; why archives and where? Interaction between archives and communities)
Speakers: Luke McKernan (Lead Curator, Moving Image at the British Library), Isobel Clouter (Curator of World and Traditional Music at the British Library), Janos Tari (Head of Department of the Hungarian Ethnographical Museum, Filmstudio and Archiv), Carlos Y Flores (Mexico, Anthropologist & Filmmaker), Catherine Moore (PhD student, based at the Powell-Cotton Museum, Kent)
 13:00
 Registration
 13:30 -
 14:45
RAI & BASIL WRIGHT FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS
 
Deborah Diniz
2009 | 24' | Brazil
 
Lisa Stevenson &
Eduardo Kohn
2010 | 25' | Canada
 
Treasa O'Brien
2009 | 16' | Nicaragua, Ireland
WILEY-BLACKWELL STUDENT FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS
 
Ane Bonde Rolsted
2010 | 29' | Denmark, England
 
Sarah Schreuder
2010 | 43' | The Netherlands
 Tea
 15:00 -
 17:00
Gillian Goslinga
2010 | 66' | India, USA
 
Helene Basu
2010 | 55' | Germany
Johanne Ihle
2009 | 23' | Yemen, UK
 
Satoru Ito
2010 | 26' | Japan
 
Lotte Haase
2009 | 40' | The Netherlands, Peru
 17:00 -
 19:00
 Formal Opening of the Festival - Garden Party on the Square
 19:30 -
 22:00
Pink Saris (130)
Kim Longinotto
2010 | 100' | UK, India
 

 

 

 

FRIDAY 24TH JUNE 2011


 
VENUE
Darwin LT Roberts G06 Roberts G08 AV Hill LT
 09:00 -
 11:00
RAI & BASIL WRIGHT FILM PRIZE
SCREENINGS (cont.)
 
Tommi Mendel
2010 | 50' | Switzerland, Cambodia
 
Ella Pugliese & Nou Va
2011 | 54' | Cambodia, Germany
WILEY-BLACKWELL STUDENT FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS (cont.)
 
Ray Ono
2009 | 30' | UK
 
Christine Moderbacher
2010 | 32' | UK
 
Felicity Aulion
2008 | 23' | USA
 
loïse Revel
2009 | 21' | UK
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Migration Film Day
 
Laura Halilovic
2009 | 50' | Italy
 
John C. Swanson
2011 | 68' | USA, Hungary
 
 Coffee
 11:30 -
 13:00
Andy Lawrence
2010 | 70' | UK
 
Olesya Bondareva & Mauri Pasanen
2010 | 27' | Russia, Finland
 
 
 
Sadaf Javdani
2010 | 30' | Iran
 
Afua Atingo Asare-Nyako
2010 | 30' | UK
 
Carolina Corral Paredes
2009 | 25' | Mexico, UK
 
MATERIAL CULTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY
FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS

Ed Owles
2011 | 25' | UK
 
Yuka Kiguchi
2010 | 17' | Japan
 
Tony Donoghue
2008 | 7' | Ireland
OPEN CITY at the RAI
 
13:00 pm
Happy New Life
Arpad Bogdan
2007 | 81' | Hungary
 Lunch
 14:00 -
 15:30
Rossella Schillaci
2011 | 75' | Italy
Maria Meriwether
2009 | 27' | UK
 
Alba Mora Roca
2010 | 26' | USA, Spain
 
Susan Butterworth
2010 | 15' | UK
Indigenous & Community Media
 
Dilen Dolki
2009 | 13' | Papua New Guinea
 
Hou Wentao
2009 | 47' | China
 
Dena Curtis
2010 | 22' | Australia
14:35 pm
Sutka Book of Records
Aleksander Manic
2005 | 76' | The Netherlands
 Tea
 16:00 -
 18:15
David & Judith MacDougall
2011 | 67' | Australia
 
Hasse Wester
2008 | 58' | Sweden
 
André Cicalo
2010 | 31' | UK
 
Sonja Schenkel
2009 | 58' | Switzerland, Brazil
 
Alyssa Grossman
2010 | 40' | UK, Romania
Nina Sabnani
2010 | 12' | India
 
Bennie Klain
2008 | 56' | USA
 
Sashi Sivramkrishna
2010 | 54' | India
16:00 pm
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings Part 2
Morag Tinto
2010 | 48' | UK
 
17:00 pm
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings Part 4
Morag Tinto
2010 | 48' | UK
 
17:50 pm
Concluding Discussion with Prof. Judith Okely (author of 'The Traveller Gypsies'), Catalina Tesar (doctoral student UCL) and Dr. Michael 
Stewart (UCL)
 18:15 - 19:00
 19:00 -
 22:00
Lynn True & Nelson Walker III
2010 | 85' | China
 
Aurore Laurent & Adrien Viel
2010 | 77' | France
Mohamadou Saliou
2010 | 52' | Norway
 
Isabelle Stüssi
2009 | 68' | Switzerland
 
Trude Berge Ottersen
2010 | 50' | Norway
Pablo Fernández & Andrea Henríquez
2008 | 113' | Chile, Argentina
 

SATURDAY 25TH JUNE 2011


 
VENUE
Darwin LT Roberts G06 Roberts G08
AV Hill LT
 09:00 -
 11:15
RAI & BASIL WRIGHT FILM PRIZE
SCREENINGS (cont.)
 
Suzette Heald
2010 | 65' | UK
 
Ben Young & Olisarali Olibui
2010 | 55' | UK
 
 
 
 
MATERIAL CULTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY
FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS (cont.)
 
Yan Chun Su
2010 | 30' | China
 
Stephen Nugent
2011 | 60' | UK
 
Harlan Wallach
2009 | 29' | USA
INTANGIBLE CULTURE
FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS
(MUSIC - DANCE - PERFORMANCE)
 
Dawa Lepcha & Anna Balikci
2011 | 75' | India
 
Paul Wolffram
2011 | 45' | New Zealand
 
 
 
 
 
 
OPEN CITY at the RAI (cont.)
 
 
Including conversation with the Director Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
 
10:00 am
Massai Women
Dissapearing World | 1974 | 53' | UK
 
11:00 am
Diary of a Maasai Village, Part 2: Two Ways of Justice
BBC 2 | 1984 | 52' | UK
 Coffee
 11:30 -
 13:10
Adrian Strong
2011 | 67' | UK
 
Piergiorgio Casotti
2010 | 14' | Italy
Valerie Hänsch
2009 | 70' | Germany
 
Bert Schmidt
2011 | 23' | Germany
Barley Norton
2010 | 56' | UK
 
David Noy
2010 | 50' | Israel
12:00 am
Diary of a Maasai Village, Part 3: Two Mothers
BBC 2 | 1984 | 50' | UK
 
 Lunch or
 13:00 -
 14:00
 
CROWD FUNDING WORKSHOP
with Isis Thompson, Srdjan Keca, and Ludovica Fales | @ Roberts Building 106
 
 
13:00 pm
Diary of a Maasai Village, Part 4: Two Journeys
BBC 2 | 1984 | 50' | UK
(Optional Screening)
 14:00 -
 15:30
Ricardo Íscar
2010 | 78' | Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anthropologists at Work:
Ethics - Politics - Fieldwork
 
Michael Eaton
2010 | 37' | UK
 
Rob Bygott & Ben Alpers
2010 | 53' | Australia
Anja Dreschke
2010 | 90' | Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14:15 pm
The Women's Olamal BBC | 1984 | 113' | UK
 Tea
 16:00 -
 18:15
Jordi Esteva
2010 | 68' | Spain, Ivory Coast
 
Karen Waltorp & Christian Vium
2010 | 58' | Denmark
José Padilha
2010 | 98' | UK, USA, Brazil
Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar
2009 | 60' | India
 
John Baily
2010 | 55' | UK
16:15 pm
Discussion
with the Director Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
 
17:15 pm
Memories and Dreams BBC 2 | 1994 | 93' | UK
 18:15 - 18:30
 18:30 -
 20:30
Susanne Jäger
2009 | 90' | Germany
 
James Der Derian, David Udris and Michael Udris
2010 | 57' | USA
 
John M. Bishop
2011 | 55' | USA
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
2010 | 62' | Canada
 
Zapo Babilée
2009 | 52' | Senegal
18:45 pm
Concluding Discussion with the Director Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
 20:30
 Festival Dinner Party

 

 

SUNDAY 26TH JUNE 2011


 
VENUE
Darwin LT Roberts G06 Roberts G08
 10:00 -
 11:15
RAI & BASIL WRIGHT FILM PRIZE
SCREENINGS (cont.)
 
Klara Trencsenyi & Vlad Naumescu
2009 | 56' | Romania
 
 
 
Anthropologists at Work:
Ethics - Politics - Fieldwork
(cont.)
 
Martin Weinhart
2010 | 59' | Germany
 
 
 
 
INTANGIBLE CULTURE
FILM PRIZE SCREENINGS
(MUSIC - DANCE - PERFORMANCE)
(cont.)
 
Christian Suhr & Ton Otto
2011 | 60' | Denmark
 Coffee
 11:30 -
 13:00
Mohammad Reza Fartousi
2010 | 50' | Iran
 
Dragan Nikolić
2008 | 58' | Serbia, USA
 
ends 13:30
Eric Wittersheim
2008 | 59' | France
Alessandro Negrini
2009 | 60' | Northern Ireland
 
Adela Peeva
2010 | 26' | Bulgaria
SPECIAL INTERESTS
 
Michelle Coomber
2010 | 12' | UK
 Lunch
 14:00 -
 16:30
Anthropologists at Work:
Ethics - Politics - Fieldwork
(cont.)
 
Bernd Mosblech
2008 | 56' | Germany
 
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Return to the Amazon (87)
Marcelo Fortaleza Flores
2009 | 71' | France
François-Philippe Gallois
2009 | 56' | France
 
Diana Allan
2009 | 54' | Lebanon, USA
 
Rupert Cox & Angus Carlyle
2011 | 10' | UK
SPECIAL INTERESTS
 
Uri Rosenwaks
2010 | 52' | Israel
 
Ron Ofer & Yohai Hakak
2008 | 50' | Israel
 Tea
 17:00 -
 18:00
 Prize Giving Ceremony