• Eyer Philipp

• Eyer Philipp

The practical seminar provides theoretical and practical approaches to the theory and history of ethnographic film and documentary work with audiovisual methods. The focus of the seminar is on the practical development of the production of a film: Introduction to film technology (formats, camera equipment, sound), storytelling, image design, narrative techniques, qualitative interviews and post-production (editing).

During the seminar, the students make their own film (5 - 10 min.) as a group work. The films are analyzed and discussed together. At the end of the seminar, the films will be shown to the public. In order for your ECTS points to be validated, you will have to: develop a film concept; produce a film and write a final report during the course.

To participate in the seminar you need to send a short motivationletter (mentioning your field of study and your motivation to participate in the seminar) before the start of the semester, until 17th of september to philipp@coupdoeil.ch. You will be notified by 24.09.2021 if you can participate in the seminar and your enrolment is accepted.

Required reading

Mendel, T (2010): Blicke auf religiöse Blicke durch die Linse. Audiovisuelle Methoden in der Religionswissenschaft: Der ethnografische Film. TVZ, Religiöse Blicke/29.4.2010/Seite 109

Further readings

Austin, T. and De Jong, W. (2008). Rethinking documentary: new perspectives and practices. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Banks, M. and Ruby, J. (eds). (2011). Made to be seen: perspectives on the history of visual anthropology . Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press.

Dancyger, K. (2011). The technique of film & video editing: history, theory and practice . London and New York: Focal Press and Elsevier.

De Jong, W., Knudsen, E. and Rothwell, J. (2012). Creative documentary: theory and practice . Harlow: Pearson.

Garret, B. (2010). Videographic geographies: Using digital video for geographic research, Progress in Human Geography, 21, 359‐373

Gruber M (2016) Participatory ethnographic filmmaking: transcultural collaboration in research and filmmaking. Visual ethnography journal. VOL. 5,  N. 1

Henley, P.  (2009) The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hohenberger, E. (1988), Die Wirklichkeit des Films. Dokumentarfilm, Ethnographischer

Film, Jean Rouch, Hildesheim

Kara, H. (2015). Creative research methods in the social sciences. A practical guide. Bristol: Policy Press.

Kindon S. (2015). Participatory video as a feminist practice of looking: ‘take two!’. Area, 2016, 48.4, 496–503

Lunch, N. &  Lunch C. (2006). Insight into Participatory Video. A Handbook for the Field. Oxford: Insightshare.

MacDougall, D. (1999). The Visual in Anthropology, in: Bank, Markus/Morphy,

Howard, Hg., Rethinking Visual Anthropology, New Haven, 276–296.

MacDougall, D. (2006), The Corporeal Image. Film, Ethnography, and the Senses,

Princeton/Oxford.

Pink, S. (2001), Doing Visual Ethnography. Images, Media and Representation in

Research, London.

Rouch, J. (2003) Ciné-Ethnography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Ruby, J. (2005), The last 20 Years of Visual Anthropology – a critical Review, in: Visual

Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 159–171.

Spencer, S. (2011) Visual research methods in the social sciences: awakening visions . London, New York: Routledge.

Van der Vaart, G. & van Hoven, B. (2018). Creative and Arts-Based Research Methods in Academic Research. Lessons from a Participatory Research Project in The Netherlands. Huigen, Paulus Published in: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research