This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most rece... more This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most recent collaborative research project: an ongoing, five-year enterprise entitled Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children's Perspectives. In the project, which emerged from his earlier work documenting the social worlds and experiences of children in diverse institutions across India, MacDougall directs a series of workshops that equip small cohorts of boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 13 with basic video skills. These young, first-time filmmakers produce short films based on their investigation of research topics they select and design themselves. The process recognizes and amplifies the perspectives of children at a time of transformation and change in India. In a conversation with filmmaker Rowena Potts, a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at New York University and facilitator of a Childhood and Modernity workshop in Kolkata, MacDougall describes the evolution and contours of this project and its implications for ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and global studies of childhood.
In this dialogue, I speak with distinguished Australian photographer Juno Gemes about a retrospec... more In this dialogue, I speak with distinguished Australian photographer Juno Gemes about a retrospective collection of her work that she is in the process of compiling at her studio on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. Provisionally titled Something Personal: Chronicles of the Movement 1978-2022, it will include photographs produced during a long-term collaboration between Gemes and her friend Frances Peters-Little, a Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay filmmaker and historian with whom I also spoke for this dialogue. Combined, these conversations provide insight into the social relations, protocols, and ethics that shape and inform Gemes' ongoing photographic practice.
This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most rece... more This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most recent collaborative research project: an ongoing, five-year enterprise entitled Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children's Perspectives. In the project, which emerged from his earlier work documenting the social worlds and experiences of children in diverse institutions across India, MacDougall directs a series of workshops that equip small cohorts of boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 13 with basic video skills. These young, first-time filmmakers produce short films based on their investigation of research topics they select and design themselves. The process recognizes and amplifies the perspectives of children at a time of transformation and change in India. In a conversation with filmmaker Rowena Potts, a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at New York University and facilitator of a Childhood and Modernity workshop in Kolkata, MacDougall describes the evolution and contours of this project and its implications for ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and global studies of childhood.
This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most rece... more This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most recent collaborative research project: an ongoing, five-year enterprise entitled Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children's Perspectives. In the project, which emerged from his earlier work documenting the social worlds and experiences of children in diverse institutions across India, MacDougall directs a series of workshops that equip small cohorts of boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 13 with basic video skills. These young, first-time filmmakers produce short films based on their investigation of research topics they select and design themselves. The process recognizes and amplifies the perspectives of children at a time of transformation and change in India. In a conversation with filmmaker Rowena Potts, a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at New York University and facilitator of a Childhood and Modernity workshop in Kolkata, MacDougall describes the evolution and contours of this project and its implications for ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and global studies of childhood.
In this dialogue, I speak with distinguished Australian photographer Juno Gemes about a retrospec... more In this dialogue, I speak with distinguished Australian photographer Juno Gemes about a retrospective collection of her work that she is in the process of compiling at her studio on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. Provisionally titled Something Personal: Chronicles of the Movement 1978-2022, it will include photographs produced during a long-term collaboration between Gemes and her friend Frances Peters-Little, a Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay filmmaker and historian with whom I also spoke for this dialogue. Combined, these conversations provide insight into the social relations, protocols, and ethics that shape and inform Gemes' ongoing photographic practice.
This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most rece... more This interview with ethnographic filmmaker and theorist David MacDougall focuses on his most recent collaborative research project: an ongoing, five-year enterprise entitled Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children's Perspectives. In the project, which emerged from his earlier work documenting the social worlds and experiences of children in diverse institutions across India, MacDougall directs a series of workshops that equip small cohorts of boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 13 with basic video skills. These young, first-time filmmakers produce short films based on their investigation of research topics they select and design themselves. The process recognizes and amplifies the perspectives of children at a time of transformation and change in India. In a conversation with filmmaker Rowena Potts, a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at New York University and facilitator of a Childhood and Modernity workshop in Kolkata, MacDougall describes the evolution and contours of this project and its implications for ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and global studies of childhood.
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