Category: film

The Long Journey Home

The Long Journey Home

Pegi Vail (New York University) In the most recent issue of AJEC (Volume 31 Issue 2), my colleagues and I focused on ‘World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology: Revisiting Contexts of Post-colonialism’ in our introduction (Ferraz de Matos et al. 2022) to this special issue. We look back to the popular live human exhibits and cultural displays at world fairs, expositions, …

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Béla Tarr’s Masterclass at the Film Museum, Vienna, Austria (June 9th, 2019)

Béla Tarr’s Masterclass at the Film Museum, Vienna, Austria (June 9th, 2019)

By Işıl Karataş

The Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr[1], – entered the extremely warm and almost full screening room of the Film Museum in Vienna with a broken arm, and started his almost two-hour long masterclass by saying ‘Let’s talk’. The manifesto-like, genuine conversation moderated by journalist Patrick Holzapfel began there. Tarr came to Vienna for his latest installation film, …

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