Experimental Film and Anthropology

Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology and vice versa through a number of contact zones: trance emotions and the senses materiality and time non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema are understood in this book as broad inclusive categories covering many technical formats and historical traditions to investigate the potential for new common practices. An international range of renowned anthropologists film scholars and experimental film-makers engage in vibrant discussion and offer important new insights for all students and scholars involved in producing their own films. This is indispensable reading for students and scholars in a range of disciplines including anthropology visual anthropology visual culture and film and media studies.