Ecography: anthropological films and climate change

Master Class by Pavel Borecký (Univeristy of Bern)

ethnocineca FILM TALK | VVAL & VSP Master Class series on “New media practices for social research”, the session takes place on Wednesday 12.5.2021, 15:00

Ethnocineca, the Visual Studies Platform (VSP) at the Central European University, and the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab (VVAL) of the University of Vienna invite you to a Film Talk by anthropologist-filmmaker Pavel Borecký about the relations between film, anthropology, and climate activism. Session hosted jointly at the VSP/VVAL Master Class Series and the ethnocineca international documentary film festival Viennna.

Pavel Borecký is a PhD candidate in Visual Anthropology at the University of Bern. He conducts research on water infrastructure in Wadi Rum in Jordan, a region affected by climate change, agricultural transformation and urbanization, and growing conflicts over water shortages. In this research, he employs a more-than-human storytelling approach, inspired by the Sensory Ethnography Lab, to expose the vulnerability of existence and process environmental grief.

In this joint ethnocineca Film Talk / VVAL & VSP Master Class, Borecký will discuss the challenges and questions that emerge when doing ethnographic research into ecological issues - “ecography”, as Borecký calls it. How best to intervene in climate action? Sharing scenes from his film “Living Water” (2021), Borecký will provocatively argue that, to take the ethical implications of Nature/Culture debate seriously, ethnographic filmmakers should urgently initiate a new crisis of representation and offer a collective storytelling response.

The film LIVING WATER can be seen in the online programme of ethnocineca (Thursday 6th of May – Thursday 13th of May 2021).

For more information see the original page: http://livingwaterfilm.com/