Ethnografilm

29 March – 31 March 2024

2024 Program            

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

 

chat gris

FULL PROGRAM 2023

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.

Directors at Autour-2

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