A special evening of conversation with fellow Sensory Ethnography Lab alumnus J.P. Sniadecki accompanied by a double screening of his documentary films Foreigns Parts (2010) and El Mar La Mar (2017).

We will show clips from films and talk about topics such as interdisciplinary collaboration; the possibilities and impossibilities of anthropological and ethnographic cinema; how makers and researchers deal with the relationship between stories and images; what to do with the huge array of media available to you: analogue and digital recordings and audio documentation.

J.P. Sniadecki, an alumnus of Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) set up by Julien Castaing-Taylor whose films have screened at many festivals and prestigious (retrospective) exhibitions at MoMA, the Guggenheim and The Museum of Natural History, will be in conversation with anthropologist Cristiana Strava (ReCNTR / Leiden University). The presentation will include film and audio extracts.