Video footage from the long-term ethnographic research of K. Kalantzis in the region of Sfakia from 2006 until today. The material deals with issues such as: hospitality, violence, tourism, “Germany”, past and traditionalism. These issues are approached through photography as a means and field of engagement between people and as a field of engagement between ethnographer and his/her interlocutors. In the discussion that will follow after the screening, the director K. Kalantzis and the editor S. Michalakas will talk about issues such as the concept of the ethnographic archive and editing, the analytical capacity of the camera, the challenges of the visual medium in ethnography and its collaborations, the concept of long-term research and its relation to time, the ethnographic relationship, social changes, trust, death, interchange and reciprocity with people in the field.
Credits
Director, camera, and research by Konstantinos Kalantzis
Editing by Silas Michalakas
Audio Restoration and mixing by Jason Theofanou
Assistant editor: Leonidas Papafotiou
Subtitling and musical score by Konstantinos Kalantzis
Konstantinos Kalantzis
Konstantinos Kalantzis is a sociocultural anthropologist (PhD) working on the intersections of visual culture and political imagination. He is author of Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete (IUP, 2019), co-editor of the volume Citizens of Photography (Duke University Press, 2022) and director of the ethnographic films Dowsing the Past (2014) and the Impossible Narration (2021). He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in rural and urban Greece and has taught at various universities in the UK, the US and Greece. He is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2019 JB Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art. He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Thessaly (Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries) and a Lecturer in Anthropology and Visual Culture at UCL.