A Cinematic Census, or Documentary Recording in Anthropological Context
Abstract
A national census was carried out in Poland in 2002. A group of documentary film makers joined census representatives to make a series of five films entitled “Our Census”. Krajnik analyses four of the films from the point of view of film anthropology, the theory popular in the 1970s that sought to combine science of man with filmmakers’ work to reach cultural self-consciousness. One of the issues raised by Krajnik is the analogy between a frame and blank space in a census questionnaire and related socio-cultural values. What he appreciates most is the possibility of the diverse perception of reality whose genuine picture is recorded neither in sociological statistics nor film frames but in the minds of audience and commentators analysing the two anthropological messages in a proper way.
Keywords:
census, anthropology, documentaryReferences
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Marcin Krajnikkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Absolwent filmoznawstwa w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych UJ, obecnie doktorant Katedry Europeistyki UJ.
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