CALL FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSION FOR THE DOSSIER: “ANTHROPOLOGY AND ASSEMBLY IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY”

Organization: Lisabete Coradini (NAVIS/UFRN) and Oswaldo Giovanni (AVAEDOC/UFPB)

Addressing the issue of montage from an anthropological perspective implies reflecting on the role of editing scripts in the production of ethnographic films, the choices of shot duration and their connections in the composition of dramatic scenes, the use of archival images, and the processes of collaboration with interlocutors/actors/protagonists. In photography, montage has been debated not only as simple arbitrary cuts of the world but as visual impressions of time. Whether in filmic ethnographies, photography, maps, or collages, montage is also present in the teaching and learning processes of visual anthropology as a space for pedagogical exchanges.

The theme of montage, as a technique, language, and intentionality, has been widely discussed among film critics and theorists (Moussinac, Martin, Munch, Journot, Aumont, Deleuze) and among filmmakers and editors (Eisenstein, Vertov, Tarkovsky, Varda, Grierson, Godard, Comolli, Joana Colier). The theme has also permeated the most historically relevant aesthetic movements (constructivism, classical, impressionism, surrealism, Italian neorealism, nouvelle vague). In anthropology, some reflections on technique, ethics, and research methodology have found a place in the works of Flaherty, Rouch, Gardner, Heider, Didi-Huberman, and Samain.

The dossier aims to highlight montage as a practice that brings forth reflections for the research production with images in anthropology in its interfaces with cinema and photography. We seek to mobilize teachers, researchers, filmmakers, photographers, editors, and those interested in debating and reflecting on creative, investigative processes of reality and language, and communication in the production of filmic ethnographies, editing scripts, photographs, and the results obtained through the technique, technology, aesthetics, and gestures employed in montage.

Authors must submit their texts, following the journal's rules, through the portal https://periodicos.ufrn.br/vivencia/index by September 15, 2024. The issue is scheduled to be published for the second half of 2024. Vivência journal publishes texts in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.

For more information, send a message to the email vivereant@yahoo.com.br indicating the topic of the dossier as the subject of the message: “Anthropology and editing in ethnographic film and photography”.

It is essential that authors observe the Vivência rules [at: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/vivencia/about/submissions] before submitting their proposals.