KOCHI: In yet another initiative to expose people of the city to the little-known cultures across the world, the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) partnered with the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) and organised the city’s first-ever Ethnografilm Festival.
As many as 10 ethnographic films from the US, Indonesia, Congo, Australia, Czech Republic and India were screened at the event, which was organised at Children’s Park Theatre.
The films, comprising short non-fiction movies, ranged from old-school anthropological investigations of ‘disappearing worlds’ to illustrated interactive tensions in visual forms.
Internationally-renowned documentary-maker Wesley Shrum, executive director of the Ethnografilm Festival, attended the screening.
“The purpose of the festival is to create an ambience in which academicians can step forward for presenting their audio- visual works. A new journal of video ethnography had been launched,” Shrum said.
“The journal and the film festival have a specific purpose. The idea behind the film festival and the journal is to explore social and cultural milieu across the world through films,” he added.
Earlier, the Kochi Biennale Foundation had organised screening of a documentary on veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan by Girish Kassarvalli.
