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In Switzer­land, a film­mak­er who was fas­ci­nat­ed as a child by the char­coal piles close to his home decid­ed to make a film about char­coal burn­ing. In the Congo, a French doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er found a … read more

We begin our three-part series focus­ing on the con­ti­nu­ity of colo­nial men­tal­i­ty with a clas­sic ethno­graph­i­cal film from 1930. We do not want to accuse the direc­tors Gulla Pfef­fer and her cam­era­man Friedrich Dal­sheim, who … read more

Already as a child, Holtedahl became fas­ci­nat­ed by people and objects from dif­fer­ent life worlds. As a young adult she went to Paris in 1964 and watched screen­ings of ethno­graph­i­cal films in the Musée de … read more

In the most remote parts of the world where the bull­doz­ers con­tin­ue to push ahead in the name of so-called progress, those people who are affect­ed the most are the few remain­ing, intact farm­ing cul­tures … read more