Festivals/Awards:
Royal Anthropological Film Festival (2016)
Director's Bio-Filmography:
PETER BIELLA conduce Programul de Antropologie Vizuală în cadrul San Francisco State University. A realizat filme în SUA, Egipt, Costa Rica, Peru, România și Haiti. Între 2008-2010 a supervizat o serie de șapte scurtmetraje documentare, filmate în Tanzania cu scopul de a educa populația urbană și rurală de Maasai despre consecințele migrației și despre felul în care influențează nivelul de sărăcie și răspândirea virusului HIV.
LEONARD KAMERLING este curator de film în cadrul University of Alaska Museum of the North. A produs numeroase filme premiate despre populația indigenă din Alaska precum UKSUUM CAUYAI: THE DRUMS OF WINTER (1989). De-a lungul carierei, a fost interesat de problematici care țin de reprezentare culturală și de explorarea posibilităților documentarului în reprezentarea transculturală.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
„Saying goodbye to the suburbs of California at fourteen years old, my life as an anthropological filmmaker began when my family moved to Cairo. There, I discovered my passion for anthropology and photography, and soon added the love of moving images and storytelling. My 1980 fieldwork with a Maasai family in Changa, Tanzania, combined anthropology with a mix of still photographs and simultaneously-recorded sound. Len Kamerling and I revisited this Maasai family thirty years later, adding motion and storytelling to the mix. Our co-editor, Daniel Chein, then helped us discover Changa Revisited somewhere in the thirty-year divide between audiorecordings, photographs and moving images.“ (Peter Biella)
„The seeds of my career as an ethnographic filmmaker were planted decades ago when I lived in a small Yup’ik Eskimo village in Alaska. From this experience I learned that it is the quiet, ordinary, everyday routine that speaks most truthfully about a culture – the nuances between people who have known each other all their lives, the subtle shifts in emotional tone that even the changing weather can bring about. This is what moved me as a filmmaker. A teacher once told me, “The image on the film is an indelible record of the relationship between filmmaker and subject. When that relationship is based on trust, film has the potential to take the audience deeply into the inner world of the subject.” I took this philosophy to heart and in the early 1970s, developed an approach
based on co-authorship and shared decision making with one’s subjects. This has remained the central tenet of my work. Working with Peter Biella and Daniel Chein on Changa Revisited has been a peak creative and intellectual experience for me. It has tested old beliefs and forged new ones and invited us to create a film that pushed us into uncharted territory. I amgrateful for their collaboration and friendship.“ (Leonard Kamerling)