This volume celebrates the fifth anniversary of Worldfilm, Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, containing a set of texts and articles about the topics, handled at previous festivals, as wella s texts documenting the festival itself. Worldfilm festival is a meeting point of various forms of documentary and anthropological filmmaking and also an arena for representation of different cultures of the world, having its more pragmatic, contemplative and more entertaining and adventurous sides.
The book is suitable for the students in the respective study areas, as well as to the people, interested in documentary film making in Estonia, as a selection of texts is focused specifically on Estonian documentary film.
Round table transcriptions and discussions cover the works of outstanding visual anthropological filmmakers. 114 pages.
Distribution:
Toivo Sikka
toivo.sikka@erm.ee
Estonian National Museum
Veski 32
51014
Tartu
Estonia
Contents
Introduction, Pille
Runnel
Estonian Documentary Films on Northern Peoples at 1980s and 1990s,
Eva Toulouze, Pille Runnel
The Man with the Microphone and Camera in
Soviet Estonia, Lauri Kärk
Roundtable on Documentary Film-making in
Soviet Estonia
Roundtable on Estonian Documentary Film-making: Estonian
Narratives
Criteria for documentary film, Andres Maimik
Respect
the Moment! A Retrospective of the Cinematographic Work of Gary Kildea, Peter I.
Crawford
Asen Balikci: "I'm not an Ethnographic Filmmaker", Liivo
Niglas
A Tribute to John Marshall, Pille Runnel
Conversation with
John Marshall
Retrospective of John Marshall
Robert Gardner, Pille
Runnel
Retrospective of Robert Gardner
Jean Rouch Anthropological
Filmmaking in Dialogue, Anne Mette Jorgensen
Workshop on Ethnofictions,
Johannes Sjöberg
The Arctic Cinema: Representation and Reception Across
Borders, Kristin Kuutma
Films at Worldfilm Programme 2004-2007