Shared Histories – Collaboration in Ethnographic Film
Donnerstag, 25.09.2025 bis Sonntag, 28.09.2025Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
The Ethnologisches Museum presents 16 films made between 1914 and 2022 dedicated to the topic of „collaboration“ in the history of ethnographic film, examined from multiple perspectives and film genres.
Can films, gazes, images be restituted? What forms of collaboration or “shared histories” can exist in ethnographic film? What new approaches can be used to open up a collaborative examination of the colonial legacy of the archives and a new dialogue with various actors, filmmakers and Indigenous communities? The film series addresses these current discourses of decolonisation and participation in knowledge and transformation processes in close collaboration with Indigenous filmmakers and archives worldwide.
The films – including Berlin premieres, new digital restorations and analogue archive film prints – will be screened in the original language with English subtitles and accompanied by introductions and post-screening discussions with filmmakers, protagonists, film scholars and ethnologists. Lectures on the film archive of the Ethnologisches Museum and the film restoration work will shed further light on the challenges of bringing back major works of ethnographic cinema to life. Finally, an international panel discussion will conclude the series.
An English-language, richly illustrated volume with 13 essays by international filmmakers, ethnologists, film critics and film scholars will be published on the occasion of the film series.
The program is curated by Dr. Regina Knapp and Louise von Plessen, and funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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