Wed April 2, 2014
The Cambridge Turn: Recent Ethnographic Shorts
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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In Person/Scott MacDonald
Scott MacDonald signs copies of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn following the screening
Over the past fifty years, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has nurtured two genres of documentary: personal documentary and ethnographic film. Several of the pioneers of ethnographic film—Lorna and John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch—made crucial contributions to the genre in Cambridge; and in more recent years the Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2002, has become an important studio for the production of films that provide sensory experiences of people-in-place. Tonight’s program features three of the SEL’s veterans, plus a recent film by Alfred Guzzetti, whose filmmaking and teaching has invigorated the Cambridge scene for more than forty years.
—Scott Mac Donald
Hell Roaring Creek Lucien Castaing-Taylor, U.S. 2010, 20 mins, Color, 35mm, From the artist
Songhua J. P. Sniadecki, China/U.S., 2007, 29 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Untitled Stephanie Spray, U.S., 2010, 14 mins, In Nepali with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From the artist
Still Point Alfred Guzzetti, U.S., 2009, 15 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Total running time: 78 mins
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Scott MacDonald signs copies of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn following the screening
Over the past fifty years, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has nurtured two genres of documentary: personal documentary and ethnographic film. Several of the pioneers of ethnographic film—Lorna and John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch—made crucial contributions to the genre in Cambridge; and in more recent years the Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2002, has become an important studio for the production of films that provide sensory experiences of people-in-place. Tonight’s program features three of the SEL’s veterans, plus a recent film by Alfred Guzzetti, whose filmmaking and teaching has invigorated the Cambridge scene for more than forty years.
—Scott Mac Donald
Hell Roaring Creek Lucien Castaing-Taylor, U.S. 2010, 20 mins, Color, 35mm, From the artist
Songhua J. P. Sniadecki, China/U.S., 2007, 29 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Untitled Stephanie Spray, U.S., 2010, 14 mins, In Nepali with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From the artist
Still Point Alfred Guzzetti, U.S., 2009, 15 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Total running time: 78 mins
In Person/Scott MacDonald
Scott MacDonald signs copies of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn following the screening
Over the past fifty years, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has nurtured two genres of documentary: personal documentary and ethnographic film. Several of the pioneers of ethnographic film—Lorna and John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch—made crucial contributions to the genre in Cambridge; and in more recent years the Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2002, has become an important studio for the production of films that provide sensory experiences of people-in-place. Tonight’s program features three of the SEL’s veterans, plus a recent film by Alfred Guzzetti, whose filmmaking and teaching has invigorated the Cambridge scene for more than forty years.
—Scott Mac Donald
Hell Roaring Creek Lucien Castaing-Taylor, U.S. 2010, 20 mins, Color, 35mm, From the artist
Songhua J. P. Sniadecki, China/U.S., 2007, 29 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Untitled Stephanie Spray, U.S., 2010, 14 mins, In Nepali with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From the artist
Still Point Alfred Guzzetti, U.S., 2009, 15 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Total running time: 78 mins
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Scott MacDonald signs copies of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn following the screening
Over the past fifty years, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has nurtured two genres of documentary: personal documentary and ethnographic film. Several of the pioneers of ethnographic film—Lorna and John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch—made crucial contributions to the genre in Cambridge; and in more recent years the Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2002, has become an important studio for the production of films that provide sensory experiences of people-in-place. Tonight’s program features three of the SEL’s veterans, plus a recent film by Alfred Guzzetti, whose filmmaking and teaching has invigorated the Cambridge scene for more than forty years.
—Scott Mac Donald
Hell Roaring Creek Lucien Castaing-Taylor, U.S. 2010, 20 mins, Color, 35mm, From the artist
Songhua J. P. Sniadecki, China/U.S., 2007, 29 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Untitled Stephanie Spray, U.S., 2010, 14 mins, In Nepali with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From the artist
Still Point Alfred Guzzetti, U.S., 2009, 15 mins, Color, Digital, From the artist
Total running time: 78 mins
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