The Cambridge Turn: Recent Ethnographic Shorts

When
Wed Apr 2, 2014
Where
Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
Time
3:10 PM
Cost
$5.50 - $9.50
Tags
Movies, Film Screenings

Description

In Person/Scott MacDonald


Scott MacDonald signs copies of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn following the screening

Over the past fifty years, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has nurtured two genres of documentary: personal documentary and ethnographic film. Several of the pioneers of ethnographic film—Lorna and John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch—made crucial contributions to the genre in Cambridge; and in more recent years the Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2002, has become an important studio for the production of films that provide sensory experiences of people-in-place. Tonight’s program features three of the SEL’s veterans, plus a recent film by Alfred Guzzetti, whose filmmaking and teaching has invigorated the Cambridge scene for more than forty years.

—Scott Mac Donald

Hell Roaring Creek Lucien Castaing-Taylor, U.S. 2010, 20 mins, Color, 35mm, From the artist

Songhua J. P. Sniadecki, China/U.S., 2007, 29 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist

Untitled Stephanie Spray, U.S., 2010, 14 mins, In Nepali with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From the artist

Still Point Alfred Guzzetti, U.S., 2009, 15 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist

Total running time: 78 mins

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