Please join us for the biggest student screening event in the history of visual anthropology at Kent on Thursday 31st May. We have 31 short films screening during a full day event within the school.
To celebrate, alumni will be joining us, in person and through video messages. We also have new prizes to reflect the shift in visual anthropological aspirations.
Professor Hugh Brody returns to award his annual prize. He recently received an honorary doctorate at Kent, where he gave a remarkable and inspirational speech about his research in Canada. We hope he will tell us more of a recent visit he made to the people he worked with for his influential book, Maps and Dreams.
New this year is the Paul Allain prize, awarded by Professor Paul Allain, for a film that present research as practice, embodiment and presence.
A New Horizons prize will be awarded by the award-winning filmmaker Yasmin Fedda, who has made recent films on Syria.
There will also be the Public Engagement prize in memory of Lynn Bicker and Martin Ripley. Martin Ripley featured in Joe Spence’s film From the Cubby with Love last year and sadly passed away last January.
Please invite friends and interested students through our live facebook event.
It starts at 09.30 in the Marlowe foyer and finishes at 19:00, but you can also dip in on the hour for different themed combinations of films.
From 14:00 until 17:00, we will be altogether in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 and the films have been chosen to reflect that.
It will be a real celebration of our students and their engagement in the world and we hope to see you there. The full programme of screenings can be seen here.