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Anthropological Gems from Viscult Film Festival

Monday, May 10th, 2010, 10 am – 8 pm
The Sciences Building (Tieteiden talo), Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki
Room 505 (5th floor)

Subtitled in English
The event is free of charge

The following anthropological films have been selected from the screenings of the recent Viscult (The Festival of Visual Culture) festivals. Viscult is a renowned international festival of anthropological and documentary films, organized annually in October in Joensuu, Finland.
http://www.viscult.net

PROGRAM

Some of the films have two sessions. Between films there will be screenings of short Finnish folk music videos from the series “Memory of Music” directed by Mirja Metsola (Illume ltd.)

10.00 Kusum
Jouko Aaltonen, Illume ltd, 2000 (69’)
A documentary about Indian girl Kusum and her family struggling against illness and spirits

11.15 Where the Peul Go
Sylvain Vesco, Free Band Production, 2007 (52’)
The Peuls are a cattle-herding tribe in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world. They talk about what “Development” and “Modernization” means to them and to their cattle.

12.15 The Stolen Museum
Jari Kupiainen, 2008 (8’)
The film investigates aspects of artefact trade in Solomon Islands and analyses the present situation and context of the stolen museum artefacts in the international art market.

12.30 Haka’anga in White River
Jari Kupiainen, 2009 (8’)
Aspects of the tattooing traditions on the Polynesian Bellona and Rennell Islands (Mungiki and Mungaba) in southern Solomon Islands. Highlighted in the film is the most central tattooing ritual, the Haka’anga.
Jape Films / in association with the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Programme in Media and Communications

12.45 Dancing and Drinking Anthropologically in Ibero-America
Ilkka Ruohonen, Nemo Hour Movie Space, 2006 (9’)
Observational Dull!

13.00 My Urban Kalakukko Museum
Ilkka Ruohonen, Nemo Hour Movie Space, 2007 (18’)
An ethnographic documentary on the process of making a traditional pie in the urban state of mind of the European Union. The documentary follows the scientific frames of surrealistic anthropology in the spirit of reflexive anthropology. This way we are able to taste, touch and see a sort of sensoric montage.

13.15 Documentary Albert
Ilkka Ruohonen, Nemo Hour Movie Space, 2008 (7’)
The ethnic identity is, nowadays, a greatly multidimensional and changeable state of mind. But sometimes possessing an ethnic identity becomes a solution, not a problem.

13.30 Transfiction
Johannes Sjöberg, the University of Manchester, 2007 (57’)
Experience “ethnofiction” in this vivid film about transgendered Brazilians, who improvise in front of the camera scenes from their life, reflecting their experiences about identity and discrimination.
http://www.factfiction.co.uk

14.30 The Village Carries on (Kylän jatkoaika)
Mirja Metsola, YLE Documentaries, 2006 (50’)
A group of researchers from the Joensuu University have since early 1970 s observed the development of two small villages in Northern Karelia, Finland

15.30 One Laptop per Child in Bekabeka
Jari Kupiainen, 2008 (10’)
A film about the worldwide One Laptop Per Child – computer project and its field tests in the Bekabeka village on Gatokae Island in the Western Solomon Islands.

15.45 Presenting Kato Bowls of Biche
Jari Kupiainen, 2008 (6’)
A documentary about an ancient yet continuing tradition of stone carving in the Biche village on Gatokae Island in the Western Solomon Islands
Jape Films / in association with the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Programme in Media and Communications

16.00 Ngat is Dead: Studying Mortuary Traditions
Ton Otto, prod. Suhr-Nieles and Ton Otto, 2008 (59’)
A Dutch anthropologist Ton Otto has been adopted by a family on the island of Baluan in the South Pacific. Due to the death of his adoptive father he has to take part in mortuary ceremonies whose form and content are however forcefully contested by different groups of relatives. Through the ensuring negotiations Ton learns how Baluan people perform and transform their traditions and not least what role he plays himself.

17.00 Where the Peul Go
Sylvain Vesco, Free Band Production, 2007 (52’)

18.00 Transfiction
Johannes Sjöberg, the University of Manchester, 2007 (57’)

19.00 Their Daily Bread
Ilkka Ruohonen, Nemo Hour Movie Space, 2009 (40’)
The continuum of pictures opens anthropological and cultural views on the status the bread has in the Finnish Euro-culture that dreads wrong types of carbohydrates. The film takes a tour in the corridors of hospital filled with long-term patients; simultaneously constructing a workmanlike anthropological vision on how the personnel earn their daily bread under a heavy workload.