MA Visual and Media Anthropology

Camera skills Workshop with Mark Dölling in the Film Studio of HMKW - University Of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication & Management Apply now to start your studies in Visual and Media Anthropology in October! You can study this program 100 % online. We offer additional On-Campus-Workshops. Including classes on Artificial Intelligence and Society and VR story telling. Accredited Master’s program! 🧑‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓

This is the place where our student’s dreams come true. When all their hard work has paid off, they can finally bask in the glory of a personal accomplishment. Students have a chance to screen their graduation films at the end of their studies, get feedback from their peers and instructors, and celebrate with friends/family. The photos were captured from this year’s graduation screening.🎞️

Such a great 🌟🎓 graduation show from G12 and G13 MA Visual and Media Anthropology! Thank you for joining us, thank you for all of our helpers and Congratulations 👏 again to our graduates! Such amazing projects! 🤩 .bln

Today, Oct. 20th, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm exhibition opening. VMA Graduation show G12/G13. Gallery: Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin. 2nd floor. See you tonight! 🥂 🍻 .bln

Our graduation screenings will be placed on 20-21 October. Join us and enjoy inspiring films made by generation 12&13. 🎬

Our graduation screenings will be placed on 20-21 October. Join us and enjoy inspiring films made by generation 12&13.

Hello Berliners, we are so excited to announce only six days left to the Intimacies, a movement from ''distance'' graduate exhibition. The show opens on Thursday 20th at 7 pm and will run until Sunday 23. Come join us and enjoy fantastic artworks and meet fellow graduates. You’ll even get the chance to ask them Q&A with the exhibitors on Saturday 22 October 15:00.

Location: Flutgraben
Poster design:

Spotlight on the project of Visual and media anthropology G14 student

The 2 Bed Hotel Room is an Autoethnography by Mariia Schulz in collaboration with performance artist and dancer Yannis Karalis.
It includes elements of a travelling vlog, self-reflection diaries and performance.
It's also an “inception project”, being an autoethnography about creating an autoethnography.

The film follows two protagonists during their tour with a Bulgarian choir, in which they both sing. They know each other only formally, have different cultural backgrounds and genders.
Shortly before the trip they find out that in one of the cities they are put into one hotel room and will have to live together, while everyone else is divided by s*x.
Taking into account that Yannis is a performative artist and dancer, there was an idea of documenting this “life-story” and recording a performance together at the end of it.

The project was strongly based on the “Artful and Embodied Methods” by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet: it was a nonlinear creative process that included improvisation, cycles of creation, reflection, discovery and performance. And then more reflection. It was driven by not knowing and waiting for what will happen.

It brings up topics such as:
The reactions of the society and learnt cultural behaviours on the topics of gender, gender roles and s*xuality.
The s*xualization and expectations from the “taboo topic” of a man and a woman sharing a room.
Getting to know a person and yourself, its complexity, in a vulnerable setting and during a performance.

Be deceived by the setting, interpret the pauses, s*xualize the scenes, imagine, what actually happened, overthink it, guess what was unsaid.

A movement away from cultural conflict, from black and white, male and female to slowly becoming more mixed. Many layers and dimensions of a connection, some things left unsaid, some not clear or non-definable. Just mixed feelings, in the hotel room.

We are happy to announce that Visual and Media Anthropology Generation 12 and 13 will be having a group exhibition and graduation film screening between 20-23 of October. Come join us at an exhibition and screenings where you can speak with the student about their work and ask questions.

SAVE THE DATES!

 Final film screening for G12 and G13 takes place, Thursday, October 20 and Friday Oct. 21 at 

Moviemento Cinema 

Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin

The opening of the exhibition for G12 and G13 students also take place, Thursday Oct. 20 / 7 pm - 10 pm

Flutgraben e.V.

Am Flutgraben 3,12435 Berlin 

Poster design:Gökçen Kavuk ()

We are now recruiting current or registered students graduating in 2023/24 (G14/15) for a student assistant position working with Project LION, a new federally funded program in VR and digital education in partnership with the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. To be considered, please send your CV and cover letter to [email protected] by Thursday 13 September. Read more on the job postings section of the HMKW website: https://www.hmkw.de/en/karriere/job-vacancies/job-vacancies-in-berlin

Spotlight on the project of Visual and media anthropology G14 student Akefetey Ephraim Mamo, whose work was exhibited at ‘’Water Matter’’ photo exhibition.

Project description:

Sololo is a small district in North Eastern Kenya bordering Southern Ethiopia.
The people of Sololo are Borena, also called Boran (meaning Free). The Boran, a subethnic section of the Oromo people who live in southern Ethiopia (Oromia) and northern Kenya, are a primarily pastoralist community and rely entirely on livestock, cattle, camels, goats and sheep for their lives as well as livelihood. Cattle are also considered central and integral to Borena culture. “Lon Malee Boranni hin bulu” - Without Cattle Boran cannot live.
The Sololo village town, with a population of approximately 5000 people, is also a small trading corridor between Kenya and Ethiopia because of its proximity to the border.
Despite the harsh, hot and arid surroundings, the people of Sololo are nestled between a network of mountains feeding water into the ponds, pans, wells and boreholes which are the main sources of potable water for both man and animal.
Sololo is also distinct because of the magnificcent Sololo-Moyale escarpment which borders the Boran of Ethiopia and the Boran of Kenya.