[UNF-DHI] Mark your calendars: "Ethnographic Filmmaking as Cosmopolitan Product" w/ Erin Moriarty 4/14 @5pm

[Pfister, Anne]

Please mark your calendars and join the UNF Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) for "Ethnographic Filmmaking as Cosmopolitan Product" with Erin Moriarty (Gallaudet University) on Thursday, April 14 @ 5 pm eastern via Zoom.

This is a FREE event - please register in advance here:
https://unf.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldeCgpzgtHdX_9ncGqg1ikqa-nZT3uEuk

Description of the event (please also see flyer, attached):


While deaf filmmaking as a profession has grown exponentially in the previous two decades, deaf ethnographic filmmaking led by deaf researchers and rooted in long-term anthropological fieldwork is new. Most existing ethnographic films involving deaf people are made by hearing filmmakers (often showing some presumption about deaf people and often relying on, or involving, narrators and interpreters). In this presentation we reflect on deaf ethnographic filmmaking as an inherently collaborative and polyphonic process.  As a part of its research and dissemination, the European Research Council-funded (2017-2023) MobileDeaf research team is producing ethnographic films focusing on international deaf mobilities (https://mobiledeaf.org.uk<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmobiledeaf.org.uk%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ca.pfister%40unf.edu%7Cf71b7da82b10422a381908da12565e0c%7Cdf29b2fa8929482f9dbb60ff4df224c4%7C1%7C0%7C637842459420812849%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=3mgPdTmaZj7Bb5bBmJx2%2F7jVt19V1IJXBqdM%2B9UqAHc%3D&reserved=0>).


The researchers, their research assistants, the film editors and the camera crew involved in the project are deaf signers from various countries, leading to a unique moment where the precepts of deaf ethnographic filmmaking are emerging in a multilingual and transnational context. The use of International Sign, itself a context-based collaborative multilingual phenomenon, is instrumental in the MobileDeaf filmmaking processes. The encounters between deaf protagonists, researchers and filmmakers with diverse privileges and lack thereof resulted in approaches to ethnographic filmmaking that explore but also critically interrogate deaf cosmopolitanism.

See you there!

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Anne E. Pfister<https://apfisteranthro.domains.unf.edu/>, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director, UNF Digital Humanities Institute<https://www.unf.edu/dhi/>
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224

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