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Is there a place for handcrafted films in 21st Century anthropology?  
Anna Grimshaw (Emory University)

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Contribution short abstract

Anna Grimshaw is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is the author of The Ethnographer’s Eye and co-author of Observational Cinema. For the last 10 years, she has been making films in Machiasport, a small fishing town in Downeast Maine.

Contribution long abstract

Anna Grimshaw is the author of The Ethnographer’s Eye and co-author of Observational Cinema. For the last 10 years, she has been making films in Machiasport, a small fishing town in Downeast Maine. In 2013 she completed a four-part film work, Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods (Berkeley Media/RAI), a companion piece, A Chair: in six parts (RAI), At Low Tide (2016 RAI) and a seven part series, George's Place (2023, RAI). She teaches at Emory University.

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Emory University: Is there a place for handcrafted films in 21st Century anthropology?
  Session 1 Friday 10 March, 2023, -