Reframing the Archive: Found Footage Filmmaking and Decolonial Practice in Southern Ethiopia
This article is based on the ethnographic film collection held by the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt am Main, produced in southern Ethiopia by Elisabeth Pauli and the anthropologists Eike Haberland and Willy-Schulz-Weidner in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the potential of found footage filmmaki...
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| Samenvatting: | This article is based on the ethnographic film collection held by the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt am Main, produced in southern Ethiopia by Elisabeth Pauli and the anthropologists Eike Haberland and Willy-Schulz-Weidner in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the potential of found footage filmmaking to reframe and re-interpret the archives by collaborating with Ethiopian filmmakers and local communities through artist-in-residence workshops held in the villages where the footages originally came from. The article suggests how Ethiopian filmmakers could review the ethnographic film collection, research supporting materials, and produce new films using on-site video editing stations, which would then be screened in the villages and submitted to international festivals, sharing the stories with local and global audiences. Ethnographic films – shaped as they are by Western epistemic values— have a distinct form, style, grammar, and production design. Our main argument is that the use of film montage with archival ethnographic films might not only constitute a productive intervention in debates around/about post-colonial and decolonial archival practices but also has potential epistemological implications for anthropology more broadly. |
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