As part of the Department of Anthropology’s screening event curated by Matthew Stock, here is the third of our selected student films.

Untitled, by Molly Thomson

As part of the Department of Anthropology’s screening event curated by Matthew Stock, here is the second of our selected student films.

Border Brutality- A story of violence, exclusion, and resistance at the border, by Beth Taylor

On 9th March, Goldsmiths Anthropology Department hosted a screening event, curated by Matthew Stock, at the Nunnery Gallery. The screening featured the work of students in our BA Visual Practice program as well as from two staff members, Ricardo Leizaola and Gabriel Dattatreyan. The theme for the screening was the archives, dovetailing with the exhibition at the Nunnery titled Traces of the Future, which engaged with the notion of the archive by examining the material remains of the Amani Hill Research Station in the Tanzanian Rainforest as a site where future and past meet. The screening was followed by a panel discussion with Goldsmiths staff, Sophie Day, Martyn Wemyss, Mathew Stock, Ricardo Leizaola, and Gabriel Dattatreyan, regarding the import of the archives for anthropological research and the ways in which the archive, as a materialized concept, can function as a meeting place for artists, anthropologists and historians.

In the weeks that follow we will provide a link to a selection of the student films which were shown at the exhibition. Each of the films were chosen for this blog as exemplars of the way in which the freely available digital archives of the internet can be utilised to produce critical and engaging work.

Black Orpheus, by Adefemi Bogulaye

Art and Anthropology- from archive to future