“Εthno-Cine: Cinema and Anthropology”: Seminar at Fårö Creative Learning

Monday January 8th, 2018

The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest and Fårö Creative Learning collaborate and co-organize the seminar “Ethno-Cine: Cinema and Anthropology”. Through screenings and discussions, participants will be introduced to ethnographic cinema and understand how technology has influenced visual anthropology. The seminar will take place in Fårö Creative Learning every Thursday, from January 11th to February 15th, …
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Thank you!

Monday December 4th, 2017

After five days, lots of screenings, side-events and a masterclass, the 8th Athens Ethnogaphic Film Festival – Ethnofest came to an end! Thank you for the support, the interest, the near-capacity crowds and the discussions after the screenings. See you at the 9th edition of Ethnofest, November 2018!            

Τhe 8th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival is coming!

Monday October 23rd, 2017

For the 8th consecutive year, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest returns to cine Astor, presenting exciting ethnographic films from all over the world. Among others, this year’s edition consists of two special screenings – John Marshall’s “The Hunters” and the participatory documentary “The Maribor Uprisings” by Maple Razsa and Milton Guillén – interesting …
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Ethnofest collaborates with the Athens International Film Festival!

The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival Ethnofest is happy to announce its collaboration with this year’s, 23rd edition of the Athens International Film Festival. The commencement of this collaboration will include the screening of the film “La Chase au Lion á l’ Arc” (Jean Rouch, 1967) at the Athens International Film Festival, a film of high …
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Summer School 2017 is officially over! See you next year!

Saturday August 26th, 2017

The third edition of Summer School 2017 “Visual Ethnography of Cityscapes”, being organized by the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest and the Netherlands Institute at Athens, is now officially over! Twenty nine young researchers, students and visual artists from all over the world got together in Athens, while bringing along their different and colourful …
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Ethnofest at Amorφous Summer Camp – ALIEN Project

Tuesday June 20th, 2017

The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest goes to Eleusis in order to participate in the Amorφous Summer Camp, part of the ALIEN Project. The Ethnnofest participation includes a workshop on the history of ethnographic cinema and three screenings.   Workshop: Ethnographic Cinema. A history of seeing otherness and ourselves. Monday, July 3rd | 18:30 …
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Photography and Anthropology: Ethnofest participates in the Kythera Photographic Encounters

Tuesday May 30th, 2017

The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival-Ethnofest will participate in the Kythera Photographic Encounters 2017, in the context of this year’s  “Photography and Anthropology” special themed section. This year’s Kythera Photographic Encounters will take place from September 27th to October 1st. On what terms can one experience and engage with images? In which cultural practices, uses, and …
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Summer School 2017: Almost Here!

Friday May 26th, 2017

This July the Summer School returns to the streets of Athens for the third consecutive year! The Summer School consists of an intensive series of workshops and courses on ethnographic cinema providing BA, MA and PhD students the opportunity to explore the tools of visual anthropology and practice on the ethnographic methodology. Participants will also …
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Call for Films: Filming Labour and Precarity

Thursday May 4th, 2017

Since its very beginning, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival has aimed at making the Festival accessible to wider audiences and promoting the educational and reflexive dimension of ethnographic cinema on social and political consideration. Thus, in 2014 the Festival introduced a themed section, which focuses on a different topic every year. This year’s tribute emphasizes …
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Seminar: Filmic portraits on ethnographic cinema

Monday April 24th, 2017

The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the Fårö Creative Learning center are organizing a seminar on ethnographic cinema, ideal for anthropology students, educators, journalists, amateur filmmakers and/or ethnographic film enthusiasts. The seminar, which will focus on filmic portraits, will be conducted by Silas Michalakas, Christos Varvantakis, and Konstantinos Aivaliotis. The main aim is to familiarize the participants …
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