[Anthropgrad] Friday Seminar (26 Sep 08)

[Sin Wen Lau]

Anthropology Friday Seminar Series, Semester 2, 2008
Milgate Room, AD Hope
26 September 2008, 3 pm

'Youth engaging in participatory video – Miriam’s story '
by SIREN HOPE

‘Ungdomsblikk’ (transl. Youth Gaze) is a participatory research project 
where ´at risk´ youth are given practice in audiovisual storytelling 
through participation in a video course of one month. Eight 
‘Ungdomsblikk’ video courses have been given in different towns and 
villages in Norway, more than 40 youth have participated and more than 
30 films have been made. Through these courses the youth participants 
make short films about their own experiences, describing their joys, 
challenges, pains, dreams, beliefs and values. The project has multiple 
agendas: to give youth a new means to express themselves and engage in 
self-reflexion, to learn about youth self-perception and their 
audiovisual performances of their own lives, and to develop new methods 
within the field of visual anthropology.

In this talk, I’ll present Miriam’s film ‘Min fremtid, mitt valg’ (My 
future, my choice), and talk about her video making process. I shall be 
looking at the video and process through different ‘lenses’ in order to 
render visible the different aspects of the Ungdomsblikk project, and 
Miriam’s contribution to it.

SIREN HOPE is a PhD student within the field of Visual Anthropology at 
the University of Tromso in Northern Norway. From August – December 08 
she is a guest student at the Research School of Humanities at ANU.

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Lau Sin Wen
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT0200
Australia

Telephone : +61-2-6125-3271
Fax	 : +61-2-6125-4896
Email	 : sinwen.lau at anu.edu.au
Website	 : http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology
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