International meeting organized by the AMidex Chair in Audiovisual Anthropology (ANFAA), which invited international filmmakers and researchers to share their recipes for thinking and practicing world-building in the making through alternative forms of narration.
How can we move beyond hegemonic narrative forms, rooted in logics of linearity, causality and conflict, structures that have historically dominated cinema and the social sciences? Drawing inspiration from sensory ethnography, decolonial cinema and anthropological criticism, we invent and recognize alternative modes of narration, stemming from diverse ways of being in the world. The Rencontres will feature presentations, screenings, mistress classes, performances, workshops and even a ciné-concert at various venues in Marseille.
And it’s all free.
Find the complete program of NARRATIONS INDOCILES, from November 2 to 5 at La Baleine, Mucem, Labo-Friche (Belle-de-Mai) and Polygone étoilé on cinethnographies.net
Partners: ANFAA Chair of Excellence (A*Midex, AMU, IDEAS, CNRS), FID Marseille, Opera Mundi, Friche Belle de Mai, FEE (La Fabrique des Ecriture Ethnographique), Polygone Étoilé, FID Marseille, La Baleine, Fondation Camargo
November 3 program
10am - 12pm MucemLab / Fort Saint-Jean
09:30 Introduction Laurent Van Lancker
Welcome address by the holder of the AMidex ANFAA Chair – Alternative Narrative Forms in Audiovisual Anthropology (Aix-Marseille Université / IDEAS)
10h Dora Garcia: ACHRONIES, UCHRONIES AND FRACTAL NARRATIONS
Dora García will present uchrony as a common strategy of speculative fiction, an exercise in political imagination that envisages alternative timelines or hypothetical scenarios. She will then explore achrony, which represents not an absence of time, but its excess. Dora García will reflect on how this idea suggests a different model for the future: not an ideal place elsewhere, but a simultaneity of pasts and futures converging in the present. The third concept, fractal narrative, will be approached as a form of storytelling inspired by fractal geometry, infinitely iterative, paradoxically finite and infinite.
Artist and researcher born in Valladolid (Spain). She lives, works and teaches in Oslo. She represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 and 2013.
2pm - 7pm Auditorium, Forum / J4
2pm-7pm INSTALLATIONS – BOOKS (Forum/J4)
Video installations by Aurélie Darbouret, Camilo Léon-Quijano, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Daniela Rodrigues, Ben Russell, Jeff Silva, Laurent Van Lancker
STRATA Books – CINETHNOGRAPHIES – DIRECT ACTION
2:30 pm Iris Brey: GETTING OUT OF CONFLICT, ways of creating a feminist imagination in our fiction.
How to write fiction as a feminist? How can we reinvent the codes of serial and cinematic narratives to break out of the patriarchal patterns that have taught us that only conflict can give rise to a story? Drawing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s text The Carrier bag theory of fiction, the author of books such as Sororité and Le Regard Féminin, I’ll explore ways of conceiving works that break out of dominant narrative structures, using examples from recent films and series. I’ll also look back at my experience as writer and director of the Split series, where I tried to put this departure from conflict into practice at the heart of the narrative, but also in the practice of making images.
French journalist, author and film critic specializing in representations of gender and sexuality in cinema and series. Her books include Sex and the Series and Le Regard féminin, une révolution à l’écran. She teaches at the Paris branch of the University of California.
4pm Launch of the book STRATA: ethnographies indociles de mondes troublés
The STRATA book is a collective work born of a shared desire to rethink the way social science research is written and transmitted. Produced by a collective of anthropologist-artists, it offers an original approach, combining text, image and sound, to question in depth the narrative forms of contemporary anthropology. Based on six ethnographic surveys carried out in France, Portugal, Romania and the Congo, this book explores sensitive experience in a variety of social and political contexts.
In the presence of Céline Pevrier (publisher, SunSun éditions) and the book’s authors.
4:30 pm Verena Paravel: Point d’Ouïe
In this mistressclass, filmmaker and anthropologist, Verena Paravel, will talk about her personal journey that seeks a cinema beyond a point of view. Through fragments of her audiovisual works, she will present a self-narrative that explores alternative narrative forms in sensory ethnography.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the audience, and an aperitif.
A filmmaker and visual anthropologist, she has long worked and taught at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL). Her work combines the negative capacity of art with an ethnographic attachment to the flow of life and a commitment to the urgent ecological and political challenges of our time. His films have been screened at festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, New York, Toronto and Venice. They have also been shown at the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, Centre Pompidou, Tate, MoMA, etc.
7pm CINE-CONCERT- Shadi Fathi and Isabelle Courroy provide live accompaniment to the film GRASS
A 1925 ethno-dramatic film by the future directors of King Kong, which follows the transhumance of the Bakhtiaris nomads of Iran. Discovering the landscapes as they went along, the filmmakers competed in ingenuity to stage and capture as closely as possible the Dantesque journey they had undertaken.
In an epic film-concert, Isabelle Courroy and Shadi Fathi accompany the long expedition of this forgotten people, following the taut threads of their setâr and tar chords or the long breath of their kaval flutes.
November 5 program
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Indocilic narrative practices - MucemLab / Fort Saint-Jean
Maisara Baroud – Scroll narratives (* Arabic translation/FR)
Maisara Baroud, artist from Gaza and author of the I am still alive series, will lead a drawing workshop on horizontal temporality in everyday experience.
Aina Azevedo, Daniela Rodrigues and Laurent Van Lancker – Divinations
Three artist-anthropologists propose three types of divination, to unlock your narrative knots in scientific and/or artistic writing.
Carina Erdman and Stephanie Holl-Trieu – Temporal Worlding
How do you give and take time, and for what purpose? Temporal Worlding is a game about the relationships to time that shape our lives. Temporal Worlding is a remote reality game that mixes video game and life-size role-playing game (LARP).1:30 pm - 6 pm Three participatory workshops - MucemLab / Fort Saint-Jean
Maisara Baroud – Scroll narratives (20 participants – registration required)
Drawing workshop on horizontal temporality in everyday experience.
Aina Azevedo, Daniela Rodrigues and Laurent Van Lancker – Divinations (without reservation – estimated 30 participants)
Three points of divination will be offered for personal or collective guidance:
– Bibliomancy: The divinatory practice of randomly opening a written work and drawing from the reading of a passage, also randomly selected, a prediction or decision for future narratives.
– Ceromancy: For each narrative question, a candle is snuffed out. The melted wax is then poured into water. The solidified wax is collected and the answer observed through its projected shadows.
– Tarot Ethnographique de Marseille: By reading cards that tell stories collected in Marseille, it’s possible to predict the future, fabricate the present and rewrite the past.Temporal Worlding – LARP WORKSHOP (20 participants – registration required)
Please note that participants in this workshop will need to bring laptops + cell phones capable of recording video (+sound)
In this workshop, you are invited to participate in an experience that combines a guided walk, speculative storytelling and somatic exercises to explore time, embodiment and other ways of creating the world.
International meeting organized by the AMidex Chair in Audiovisual Anthropology (ANFAA), which invited international filmmakers and researchers to share their recipes for thinking and practicing world-building in the making through alternative forms of narration.
How can we move beyond hegemonic narrative forms, rooted in logics of linearity, causality and conflict, structures that have historically dominated cinema and the social sciences? Drawing inspiration from sensory ethnography, decolonial cinema and anthropological criticism, we invent and recognize alternative modes of narration, stemming from diverse ways of being in the world. The Rencontres will feature presentations, screenings, mistress classes, performances, workshops and even a ciné-concert at various venues in Marseille.
And it’s all free.
Find the complete program of NARRATIONS INDOCILES, from November 2 to 5 at La Baleine, Mucem, Labo-Friche (Belle-de-Mai) and Polygone étoilé on cinethnographies.net
Partners: ANFAA Chair of Excellence (A*Midex, AMU, IDEAS, CNRS), FID Marseille, Opera Mundi, Friche Belle de Mai, FEE (La Fabrique des Ecriture Ethnographique), Polygone Étoilé, FID Marseille, La Baleine, Fondation Camargo
November 3 program
10am - 12pm MucemLab / Fort Saint-Jean
09:30 Introduction Laurent Van Lancker
Welcome address by the holder of the AMidex ANFAA Chair – Alternative Narrative Forms in Audiovisual Anthropology (Aix-Marseille Université / IDEAS)
10h Dora Garcia: ACHRONIES, UCHRONIES AND FRACTAL NARRATIONS
Dora García will present uchrony as a common strategy of speculative fiction, an exercise in political imagination that envisages alternative timelines or hypothetical scenarios. She will then explore achrony, which represents not an absence of time, but its excess. Dora García will reflect on how this idea suggests a different model for the future: not an ideal place elsewhere, but a simultaneity of pasts and futures converging in the present. The third concept, fractal narrative, will be approached as a form of storytelling inspired by fractal geometry, infinitely iterative, paradoxically finite and infinite.
Artist and researcher born in Valladolid (Spain). She lives, works and teaches in Oslo. She represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 and 2013.
2pm - 7pm Auditorium, Forum / J4
2pm-7pm INSTALLATIONS – BOOKS (Forum/J4)
Video installations by Aurélie Darbouret, Camilo Léon-Quijano, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Daniela Rodrigues, Ben Russell, Jeff Silva, Laurent Van Lancker
STRATA Books – CINETHNOGRAPHIES – DIRECT ACTION
2:30 pm Iris Brey: GETTING OUT OF CONFLICT, ways of creating a feminist imagination in our fiction.
How to write fiction as a feminist? How can we reinvent the codes of serial and cinematic narratives to break out of the patriarchal patterns that have taught us that only conflict can give rise to a story? Drawing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s text The Carrier bag theory of fiction, the author of books such as Sororité and Le Regard Féminin, I’ll explore ways of conceiving works that break out of dominant narrative structures, using examples from recent films and series. I’ll also look back at my experience as writer and director of the Split series, where I tried to put this departure from conflict into practice at the heart of the narrative, but also in the practice of making images.
French journalist, author and film critic specializing in representations of gender and sexuality in cinema and series. Her books include Sex and the Series and Le Regard féminin, une révolution à l’écran. She teaches at the Paris branch of the University of California.
4pm Launch of the book STRATA: ethnographies indociles de mondes troublés
The STRATA book is a collective work born of a shared desire to rethink the way social science research is written and transmitted. Produced by a collective of anthropologist-artists, it offers an original approach, combining text, image and sound, to question in depth the narrative forms of contemporary anthropology. Based on six ethnographic surveys carried out in France, Portugal, Romania and the Congo, this book explores sensitive experience in a variety of social and political contexts.
In the presence of Céline Pevrier (publisher, SunSun éditions) and the book’s authors.
4:30 pm Verena Paravel: Point d’Ouïe
In this mistressclass, filmmaker and anthropologist, Verena Paravel, will talk about her personal journey that seeks a cinema beyond a point of view. Through fragments of her audiovisual works, she will present a self-narrative that explores alternative narrative forms in sensory ethnography.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the audience, and an aperitif.
A filmmaker and visual anthropologist, she has long worked and taught at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL). Her work combines the negative capacity of art with an ethnographic attachment to the flow of life and a commitment to the urgent ecological and political challenges of our time. His films have been screened at festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, New York, Toronto and Venice. They have also been shown at the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, Centre Pompidou, Tate, MoMA, etc.
7pm CINE-CONCERT- Shadi Fathi and Isabelle Courroy provide live accompaniment to the film GRASS
A 1925 ethno-dramatic film by the future directors of King Kong, which follows the transhumance of the Bakhtiaris nomads of Iran. Discovering the landscapes as they went along, the filmmakers competed in ingenuity to stage and capture as closely as possible the Dantesque journey they had undertaken.
In an epic film-concert, Isabelle Courroy and Shadi Fathi accompany the long expedition of this forgotten people, following the taut threads of their setâr and tar chords or the long breath of their kaval flutes.
November 5 program
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Indocilic narrative practices - MucemLab / Fort Saint-Jean
Maisara Baroud – Scroll narratives (* Arabic translation/FR)
Maisara Baroud, artist from Gaza and author of the I am still alive series, will lead a drawing workshop on horizontal temporality in everyday experience.
Aina Azevedo, Daniela Rodrigues and Laurent Van Lancker – Divinations
Three artist-anthropologists propose three types of divination, to unlock your narrative knots in scientific and/or artistic writing.
Carina Erdman and Stephanie Holl-Trieu – Temporal Worlding
How do you give and take time, and for what purpose? Temporal Worlding is a game about the relationships to time that shape our lives. Temporal Worlding is a remote reality game that mixes video game and life-size role-playing game (LARP).1:30 pm - 6 pm Three participatory workshops - MucemLab / Fort Saint-Jean
Maisara Baroud – Scroll narratives (20 participants – registration required)
Drawing workshop on horizontal temporality in everyday experience.
Aina Azevedo, Daniela Rodrigues and Laurent Van Lancker – Divinations (without reservation – estimated 30 participants)
Three points of divination will be offered for personal or collective guidance:
– Bibliomancy: The divinatory practice of randomly opening a written work and drawing from the reading of a passage, also randomly selected, a prediction or decision for future narratives.
– Ceromancy: For each narrative question, a candle is snuffed out. The melted wax is then poured into water. The solidified wax is collected and the answer observed through its projected shadows.
– Tarot Ethnographique de Marseille: By reading cards that tell stories collected in Marseille, it’s possible to predict the future, fabricate the present and rewrite the past.Temporal Worlding – LARP WORKSHOP (20 participants – registration required)
Please note that participants in this workshop will need to bring laptops + cell phones capable of recording video (+sound)
In this workshop, you are invited to participate in an experience that combines a guided walk, speculative storytelling and somatic exercises to explore time, embodiment and other ways of creating the world.
