[Asia_news] Centre for Visual Anthropology Forum 19 October: David MacDougall

[Barbara Nelson]

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Forum 19 October: David MacDougall

*CENTRE FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY PRESENTS*

*David MacDougall, Children and Modernity Project*

/Short films made by children/

Digital Humanities Hub, 9 Liversidge Crescent, Acton

12.30pm Friday 19 October 2012

These four films were shot by children (2 girls, 2 boys) aged 11 and 12 
during the video workshop I conducted at the CIE Government School in 
Delhi in March-April-May 2012.  The video workshop was part of the 
"Childhood and Modernity Project".  The aim of the "Childhood and 
Modernity" project is to produce new knowledge about the ideas and 
perspectives of Indian children today, through research conducted by the 
children themselves.  Each workshop group — involving up to a dozen 
children, from 10 to 13 years old — chooses topics that they consider 
important in their own lives.  After a period of training to use video 
cameras, they conduct a project on their topic for six to eight weeks, 
producing a film report at the end of the workshop.  It is hoped that 
these workshops will not only produce fresh insights into contemporary 
children's lives but also into children’s particular ways of looking at 
the world.

The films are:

Children at Home - by Shikha Kumar Dalsus (30 mins)
My Lovely General Store - by Ravi Shivhare (15 mins)
Why Not a Girl? - by Anshu Singh (16 mins)
My Funny Film - by Aniket Kumar Kashyap (16 mins)

*David MacDougall* is a documentary filmmaker and writer on cinema. His 
first feature-length film, To Live with Herds, won the Grand Prix 
‘Venezia Genti’ at the Venice Film Festival in 1972.  He and his wife 
Judith MacDougall then produced a trilogy of films on the Turkana people 
of northwestern Kenya.  After making a number of films on indigenous 
communities in Australia, they co-directed Photo Wallahs (1991), a film 
about photographic practices in an Indian hill town.  In 1993 MacDougall 
made Tempus de Baristas,  a film about mountain goat herders in 
Sardinia.  In 1997 he began a five-part film study of the Doon School in 
northern India.  His recent filming has been at a co-educational school 
in South India and a shelter for homeless children in New Delhi, where 
he made Gandhi’s Children (2008). MacDougall writes regularly on 
documentary and ethnographic cinema and is the author of Transcultural 
Cinema and The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses. He is 
presently Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University, where 
he is conducting the research project, “Childhood and Modernity”.

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Melinda Hinkson
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Research School of Humanities and the Arts
AD Hope Building #14
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
P. 02 6125 8246
F. 02 6125 2711

http://archanth.anu.edu.au/visualanthropology/





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