29 March – 31 March 2024
The 2024 festival will be held March 29 – 31 at Club De L’Etoile, at 14 Rue Troyon near the Arc de Triomphe. There are four sessions each day (beginning at 1pm, 3:30, 6pm, and 8:30). While the films below will be screened in the following sessions, the moderators for each day [Robin Starbuck (Friday), Matt Harsh (Saturday), Greg Scott (Sunday)] have final say over the ordering of the films within each of their four sessions. In other words, the order of the films within each of the four daily sessions is not necessarily what is printed below–it could change on the day of screening.
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday 28 March 6pm
Friday March 29, 2024 |
1pm |
All Eyez on Me |
Spółdzielnia / Co-operative |
The Art of Seeing, The Art of Remembering |
Piblokto |
3:30pm |
The #1 Bus Chronicles |
Building Spaces-A Sensory Ethnography |
Dionewar Solidarité – or how to involve everybody |
Intermittent Attunement |
Notes on Listening |
6pm |
Dancing in Fire |
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from home |
Stonewall Postal Action Network |
Tin Sandwich Blues: A Musician’s Journey |
To Kyiv and Back |
8:30pm |
Wondrous Kiental |
AJAW Q’IJ |
Alter ego |
BUTTERFLIES IN THE SKIES : the Cretan rhymes |
Come Find Me |
Saturday. March 30, 2024 |
1pm |
Long Live the Dead |
FAMADIHANA ( VOSTAN ) |
Mama – Africans in S√£o Paulo |
Monkey Eden |
Privately Owned Public Space |
The Kiki House of Vase |
3:30pm |
Judas Fariseo Diablo |
Repair the World |
SUNSTEAD |
The Absence of Telepresence |
Discarnate: McLuhan’s Wake Baltic (so it is!) |
6pm |
Hungry Hill |
Arrival/Departure |
Bajando por la Montaña: Ecology of Colombian Gaita Music |
Beyond |
De la Choza a la Losa |
Unravelling |
8:30pm |
One side of the road |
For The Love of Dance |
Hemabu |
Icelandic Fragments |
May 12, 2022 |
Sunday March 31, 2024 |
1pm |
Dwight in Denmark |
Border on Sale |
Now I Am Old and Do Not Need the Moon |
Piconland: The Quest for the Perfect Picon Punch |
Purga |
Savage Land |
3:30pm |
Too Good To Be Forgotten |
The journey of the Marimba |
Threads |
Transversing Zoom |
The Little Blue Blouse |
Finding Enok |
6pm |
How to Tame Wild Horses |
Portraits of Disability |
Proprioception |
Sweet Potato |
Present at Sunrise |
Waking With the River |
Neverland |
Tarma: Communities on the Frontlines of Epidemic Response |
8:30pm |
Gyuto |
Little pile of things |
Please Ask for It |
The People’s Tree |
Submissions will open in June for the 2025 festival on FilmFreeway. Directors of feature length films: please note that depending on the screen time available we may ask for a “broadcast length” version. This is typically 52 minutes.
Please note this not an ethnographic film festival in a strict sense. It is a nonfiction film festival–all varieties of documentary film are encouraged. If you want to get a sense of what we are like before you submit, download the full program for any of our Paris festivals. Check out any year.
Note to Filmmakers–we would love to see your films from anywhere on Planet Earth, not just premodern societies and far-away places. If you have both “feature” and “broadcast” (under one hour) length, please submit the broadcast version for a higher likelihood of acceptance.
What is the Ethnografilm festival? An interview with the Director.
After the close of each day, directors retire to a nearby bar to discuss movies, & drink absinthe. Occasionally, someone sees the green faerie.
Autour du Moulin
Associated with the festival is the Journal of Video Ethnography http://videoethno.com (Gregory Scott, Editor)
No matter what…it’s April in Paris!