Martin Gruber University of Bremen, Germania
DOI: 10.12835/ve2016.1-0057
Abstract
This paper introduces an approach of Participatory
Ethnographic Filmmaking I developed by making films
together with rural dwellers in Namibia, Botswana and
Angola. Grounded in the field of ethnographic filmmaking,
it aims at making anthropologically informed films together
with groups of people with no previous filmmaking
experience. Workshop participants shape the form and
content of the film and contribute to its practical making.
In this paper, I explain how such films can be made in a
wide range of different settings. Participatory Ethnographic
Filmmaking gives the participants the possibility to
shape their own media image and generates new forms of
collaborative knowledge.
Keywords
Visual anthropology, ethnographic film, participatory filmmaking, collaborative filmmaking, collaborative research, audio-visual ethnography, collaborative knowledge.
