Three anthropologists enter Grandma’s kitchen to observe how dance moves the aging female body. Grandma Keti refuses to follow and puts on a performance—against language and cultural barriers—sharing life stories and love advice. This film is an ode to the magic of the encounter, the in-progress relationships, and the beauty of the fieldwork uncertainty.
Jenthe Blockx
Jenthe Blockx is a Master’s student in Visual Culture and Film Studies at the University of Antwerp. She has conducted research on transnational, intimate relationships in times of COVID-19, for the completion of her Master’s degree in Social and Cultural anthropology at KULeuven. In future research, she is interested in further exploring visual and sensorial ethnographic practices.
Marianna Panourgia
Marianna Panourgia is a contemporary dancer, dance educator and ethnochoreologist based in Piraeus, Greece. She holds a Contemporary Dance Teaching Diploma and a Master of Arts in Ethnochoreology. Currently, she is a PhD candidate with focus on the ethnographic archiving of contemporary dance, Higher Contemporary Dance Education in Greece and oral traditions.
Melia Weltzien
Melia Weltzien recently obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology at VU Amsterdam. She has conducted research on representation practices and structures of exclusion in both German media and Amsterdam’s Art World. Through ethnographic filmmaking, she will continue questioning the issue of whose stories are being told and heard after all, aiming at more inclusive forms of storytelling.