The Margins of a Home: A Review of Familienleben

The Margins of a Home: A Review of Familienleben

Some bodies run toward loud noises. Others flee from such sounds, running away as fast as they can. Rosa Hannah Ziegler’s Familienleben (2018) incites attentio... More

Sonic Registers and Observational Techniques: A Review of Linefork

Sonic Registers and Observational Techniques: A Review of Linefork

Sound precedes most imagery and all meaning: it causes trajectories and orientations to rebound, as though its resonance and timbre mark affective and atmosph... More

Deserts of Polyphonic Longing: A Review of El Mar La Mar

Deserts of Polyphonic Longing: A Review of El Mar La Mar

The world appears tranquil at its edges. There, on the radiating borders between this and that, there’s a slight fog, or the thinnest of desert dust: almost f... More

Watery Worlds: A Review of Helena Wittman and Theresa George’s Drift

Watery Worlds: A Review of Helena Wittman and Theresa George’s Drift

Imagine a giant crocodile is paddling in the primeval ocean, back and forth, circling around, constantly mixing the mud with the water. Everything is in motio... More

Time and the Axe: A Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite

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

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

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