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Portfolio of Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology and Visual Research in Slovenia
Author(s) -
KRIZNAR NASKO
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1525/var.2007.23.1.100
Subject(s) - ethnography , visual anthropology , exhibition , visual arts , film director , visual research , art , visual media , sociology , anthropology , movie theater
Slovenia has a diverse range of ethnographic film, visual anthropology and visual research. Visual production includes ethnographic and documentary film, as well as emerging genres such as videos produced for museum exhibition and student video works. Commentary on these productions focuses on the difference between documentary and ethnographic film, and on the difference between ethnographic films and visuals works made for research. Much visual media created for Slovene ethnological purposes stores images of a culture as a kind of inventory or list that is structured according to professional standards. Visual ethnography is a specific way of researching culture with the help of a photo or video camera. There is no need for a researcher to be a filmmaker in a classical sense. Rather, it is sufficient that the researcher be skilled in shooting and flexible in the use of the camera under different methodological circumstances.