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.
Screening Room: Peasant Family Happiness
We hope you were able to enjoy the film Peasant Family Happiness! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the filmmaker interview and ot... More
Screening Room: The Absent Stone
Over the next two weeks, the Visual and New Media Review is pleased to screen The Absent Stone (2013), a film by Sandra Rozental and Jesse Lerner. The film unp... More
Screening Room: Griot
Last winter, Cultural Anthropology and the Visual and New Media Review had the opportunity to screen Collecting in the Collection: 46 Inuit Artifacts in the Ber... More
On Citizenfour: A Conversation with Bernard Harcourt
Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary film Citizenfour portrays Edward Snowden and the whistleblowing operation that exposed surveillance practices within the Nati... More
Time and the Axe: A Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite
For contemporary viewers of documentary, Anna Grimshaw’s four-part series Mr. Coperthwaite: A Life in the Maine Woods, is a lesson in patience. Part 1, “Spring... More
Behind the Screens: Jenna Burrell
Welcome to the first post of the Visual and New Media Review’s video blog, Behind the Screens. This blog shines light on how anthropologists are exploring the... More
Roundtable Report: Who Needs Visual Anthropology?
Cineblend: 25 Years of Beeld voor Beeld. Who Needs Visual Anthropology? De Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, February 15, 2015... More
The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera
Review: Ethnographic Terminalia 2014, Hierarchy, Washington, D.C., December 3–7 Ethnographic Terminalia is a curatorial collective that since 2009 has been cur... More
Screening Room: Collecting in the Collection
From January 14 to February 18, 2015 we screened the premiere of Collecting in the Collection: 46 Inuit Artifacts in the Berlin Ethnological Museum from Franz... More
Screening Room: Jeepney
We hope you were able to enjoy Jeepney! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the filmmaker interview and other teaching resources. F... More