The ethnographic documentary focuses on lived experience and invites viewers to enter into a meaningful relationship with its subjects. JENI THORNLEY recounts how the 2013 Aperture Festival’s films and events showcased this unique artform.
The film they are shooting, do you think it will benefit us? — musician Mura Lala Fafal in A Two Day Fair (Anjali Monteiro & KP Jayasankar, 2009)
The Aperture Asia Pacific International Ethnographic Documentary Festival is the first local festival to program ethnographic films specifically about the Asia-Pacific region. It screened over thirty films from Papua New Guinea, East Timor, the Solomon and Cook islands, Tuvalu, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, China, Japan and Australia, which were curated into two distinct programs, with an accompanying photographic exhibition. The Cinematic Program consisted…
