Experimental Ethnography

Nov. 18, 2009

Type: event
Location: Vancouver
Starts: Nov 21 2009 at 12:00AM
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A co-presentation between DIM Cinema, VIVO Media Arts and Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society

Facilitated by Brad Butler, filmmaker, social practices artist and Programmer of the no.w.here Media Arts Centre in London UK.

Anthropologist Anna Grimshaw said, "Films are not about what you see, but how you see". This cross-media practice based workshop refers to the history of filmmaking to explore the construction of anthropological truth. Drawing on the genre of Experimental Ethnography, participants will consider the ambiguous relationship between image, narration, sound, and text and explore ways of re-contextualizing or disrupting visual evidence through the creative use multiple audio and visual voices.

Please bring materials that reflect your practice, or a new practice you would like to experiment with: pen and paper, laptop, camera, video camera, film camera, audio recording.

EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY
21 November 2009, 12-6pm
Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
$50 for member, $75 for non-members

REGISTRATION: Please contact Leanne at [email protected] or 604.685.3841.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 18 November

Instructor: BRAD BUTLER graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Documentary Filmmaking. He also has a 1st class degree in Anthropology. In September 2000 he was the winner of BBC2’s Documentary talent 2000 competition, as well as winning the National Student Television Award in 1998. Since 1998 he has been creating a body of work in collaboration with Karen Mirza that has moved between the documentary form and artists film. This ongoing dialogue about practice has manifested itself in artistic work presented in exhibitions, events and the cinema as well as the creation of the unique space www.no-w-here.org.uk. Brads most recent work is a return to issues raised in Anthropology having spent 10 years as an active participant in the ideas of experimental film. Brad’s new solo work In Search of Structure is the first of a new body of work that brings together his experience in both fields.