Visual and New Media Review

Visual and New Media Review is a multimedia forum for expanding the boundaries of academic and artistic engagement. Working at the intersections of anthropology, contemporary art, media, sound and film studies, and the digital humanities, the section seeks to sustain dialogues among these kindred pursuits and to provide a platform for experimental and innovative work, as well as critical assessment and reviews of scholarship, film, and visual culture.

Contact Us

Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to section editors Ara Ortiz ([email protected]) and Alejandro Jaramillo ([email protected]).

Mediations Between Life and Death: A Review of Homegoings

Mediations Between Life and Death: A Review of Homegoings

Homegoings, a documentary directed by Christine Turner, is an exploration of African American funerary practices through the portrait of a man who dedicated h... More

Modes of Encountering the Survivor of Violence

Modes of Encountering the Survivor of Violence

It is not uncommon for anthropologists to encounter talk of “the invisible” or “the unspeakable” in contexts of sexual violence and rape around the globe, espec... More

Screening Room: Gods and Kings

Screening Room: Gods and Kings

The film Gods and Kings has been taken down. The trailer, interview with filmmakers, photo essay and resource materials will still be live. Thanks for joining... More

Screening Room: Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens

Screening Room: Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens

Once again, thanks for taking part in our Screening Room series. We hope you were able to enjoy the film! Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens has been tak... More

Screening Room: Savage Memory

Screening Room: Savage Memory

Thanks for coming to our second Screening Room series. We hope you were able to enjoy the film! Savage Memory has been taken down, but this page will be up wi... More

Incorporating Photography Exhibits in the Anthropology Classroom: A Review of Elena Geroska's Traces

Incorporating Photography Exhibits in the Anthropology Classroom: A Review of Elena Geroska's Traces

If you're anything like me, you secretly enjoy when people leave the curtains of their living room windows open, allowing you to gain a two-second-long glance i... More

Screening Room: Roots of Love

Screening Room: Roots of Love

Welcome to our first Screening Room Presentation Each month we will screen online ethnographic films and other documentaries relevant to anthropological concer... More

An Interview with Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki

An Interview with Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki

Foreign Parts is an eighty-minute documentary filmed between 2008 and 2010 by Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki, produced with the support of Harvard’s Sensory... More