EthnoKino presents: Transactive Dialogues – Films on knowledge and beyond


EthnoKino presents: Transactive Dialogues – Films on knowledge and beyond

EthnoKino is an ethnographic film program curated by the collective of anthropology students at the University of Bern. More than just “documenting the real” visual anthropology makes full – and sometimes experimental – use of the potential of film in the quest to frame and experience manifestations of life from different cultural and political vantage points.

This season EthnoKino shows a selection of films exploring how knowledge is being created, mediated and transcended. In “Transactive Dialogues” we travel across the world from the centre to the peripheries as we are taken to see what is beyond. Looking through the artistic visions of the filmmakers, we ask:  Who has access to knowledge? (THE PROPOSAL)

How is knowledge co-created and transmitted across cultures? (SURYA)

What are the young ways of knowing? (ETHNOKINO SHORTS)

What is the relation between knowledge and colonialism? (THEATRUM BOTANICUM)

How the power of sharing what we know and have could change lives? (BACHIR IN WONDERLAND and ELDORADO)

How knowledge, despite all odds, connects even the most remote? (MURGHAB)