Oh, what a blow that phantom gave me ! Edmund Carpenter
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Bishop John M. ; Prins Harald ;
- Editeurs : Portland, OR Media Generation [éd., prod., distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2003
- Sujets : Films d'expédition -- DVD -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Ethnologie, Entretiens (ethnologie), Rites d'initiation, Films ethnographiques DVD Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Lomax Hawes, Bess, Carpenter
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD mono face toutes zones (54 min), : Coul. (PAL), son.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Version originale en anglais ; Contient également : le texte du livre correspondant au film documentaire, le scénario annoté du film, un article de Harald Prins et John Bishop sur le travail d'Edmund Carpenter, un article de Bunny McBride sur le tournage du film et une interview d'Edmund Carpenter de 1998. ; John Bishop : photographie et édition ; Harald Prins, Bruce Broce et Lucien Taylor : photographie ; Adelaide de Manil, Edmund Carpenter, Bess Lomax Hawes, Robert Cannon : reportages ethnographiques (extraits contenus dans le film) ; Lieu de tournage : Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée, rives du Sepik, 1969-1970 ; Beeld voor Beeld Ethnographic Film Festival (Amsterdam 2003) ; Royal Anthropology Institute Film Festival (Durham 2003) ; American Anthropology Association (Chicago 2003) ; Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (Taipai 2003) ; forumdoc.bh.2003 – 7th Documentary and Ethnographic Film Festival of Belo Horizonte - Brazil (2003) ; Media Ecology Conference, New York (2003) ; 7th Göttingen International Film Festival (2004) ; John Culkin Award for Excellence in Praxis in Media Ecology (2004) ; Ethnographic Film Festival of Montreal (2005) ; supporter of the Sundance Film Festival
Résumé
'Oh, What a Blow Cette Phantom Gave Me!' présente le travail visionnaire de l'anthropologue Edmund Carpenter au centre de l'anthropologie visuelle et de l'écologie des médias. ; 'Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!' returns Edmund Carpenter's visionary work to the center of visual anthropology and media ecology. A maverick who explored the borderlands between ethnography and media over fifty years, Carpenter looked at the revolutionary impact of film and photography on tribal peoples. He opened the Pandora's box of electronic media with delight and horror, embracing it even as he recoiled from its omnipotence. The documentary dives into the tensions between art and anthropology, film and culture. Using extensive interviews with Carpenter and footage from his fieldwork, the film evokes the insights and ironies of his classic book of the same name. He comments on his wide-ranging fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic and Papua New Guinea, concepts of authenticity and truth in media and art, the relationship between anthropology and surrealism, and the impossibility of preserving culture. Much of the film is built around his 1969-70 New Guinea footage, never seen before, which includes a riveting scene of an Upper Sepik River tribal initiation in which a crocodile skin pattern is cut into the initiate's skin. Coinciding with the current McLuhan renaissance, Carpenter is now being claimed as a pioneer in the emerging field of Media Ecology, and his once-exotic ideas about electronic media seem perfectly obvious in light of the World Wide Web. It captures that moment in anthropology when exploring the many ways media transform cultures was fresh and alive and hold promise for a new generation. [texte de la jaquette]