Experimental Ethnography

Filmography of the works observed and analyzed by Catherine Russell in her study, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video.

From the preface:

“Once ethnography is understood as a discursive structure, its affinities with filmic ontologies of memorialization, redemption, and loss can become a rich source of allegorical possibility. If the cinema itself has taken on some of the aura of a ‘vanishing culture’ as it gradually evolves into the multiple forms of digital and electronic media, experimental ethnography refers to a mode of representation that understands itself as a practice that...