Director's Bio-Filmography:
Rolf Husmann (born 1950) is a German anthropologist with a specialisation in ethnographic filmmaking and the anthropology of sport. Apart from regularly teaching (visual) anthropology at various universities worldwide, he worked from 1992 until its closure in 2010 at the «IWF Knowledge and Media» in Göttingen (Germany) and has made films, amongst others, about the Nuba («Nuba Wrestling», 1991), the Pacific Arts Festival («Maire Nui Vaka», 1995), Samoans in New Zealand («Destination Samoa», 1998) as well as film portraits of Raymond Firth («Firth On Firth», 1993) and Asen Balikci («The Professional Foreigner», 2009). From 2001 until 2008 he was chairman of the Commission on Visual Anthropology (CVA).
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Director's / Curator's Statement:
Un interviu filmat cu Asen Balikci. Conversaţia se concentrează pe viaţa şi studiile sale. Pentru el, a fi antropolog înseamnă să devii străin profesionist: „oricât înveţi despre o cultură, nu ajungi niciodată să-i aparţii”.