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Dear all,

The EASA Conference in Barcelona is approaching. Please consider attending the Lab "Cinematic Disruptions" as an active audience. Presenters will be showing their film excerpts and discussing them in the Lab. Active audience will engage with this material and participate in a shared exercise of collective assemblage of images and ideas. Below you will find the summary of the Lab.

If you are interested in attending, do not hesitate to send us an email. We will respond to you giving more details about the Lab:

rocanals@ub.edu imp37@cam.ac.uk

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Roger and Iris

https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2024/programme#15136

This lab aims to gather visual anthropologists in a collective, experimental, and comparative discussion of what we call 'cinematic disruptions'. This term refers to those situations of the ethnographic contexts where the cinematic encounter with the 'other(s)' crystallizes into unexpected outcomes that overflow and challenge our previous narrative structure and epistemological standpoints. In these moments, when everything turns upside down, the filmmaker becomes both an intruder and a provocative agent since he or she actively participates into a transformative process where reality is redefined. These liminal situations raise ethical and methodological questions: How do they challenge visual anthropological theories and practices? What is the 'right' ethnographic distance that we must assume? How is visual consent reassessed? How do these situations force us to reimagine our project and our position in it? How may they affect us psychologically and emotionally? Is the transformative encounter potentially detrimental (or positive) to make a “good film” (whatever it means)?

Methodologically, we wish to experiment with “speculative collective montage”, understood as the comparison of different disruptive moments to see similarities and differences, opening the possibility of making a short collective visual essay.

There are 2 modalities of participation: 1) Bringing a film (up to 6 people, recommended). Each participant will be invited to bring a short instance of 3 minutes maximum of a “cinematic disruption”. We are particularly interested in contexts of the ritual (religious, social, political), yet we are open to any kind of disruptive situations.

Attending as active audience (up to 12 people).

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