Journal of Video Ethnography

JVE's spring 2018 issue has been published! Visit our website to watch the six excellent peer-reviewed films (representing six different countries) included in this issue.

JVE is the world's first academic peer reviewed journal of ethnographic films and videos. Get your free subscription and begin enjoying this trove of profoundly entertaining films!

Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) Journal of Video Ethnography, a venture of DePaul University’s Faculty Scholarship Support Center, is a peer reviewed journal that aims to advance the social scientific use of video or film as a method for exploring human society, systems, and cultures and as a medium for presenting the findings o...

Congratulations to the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) for the launching of their new Journal of Anthropological Films journal! It's wonderful for the field that JVE is no longer the only academic journal that publishes social science films (not papers about films, but the films themselves). The sprouting and proliferation of new peer reviewed journals is one of the key indicators of a discipline's or methodology's burgeoning health.

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NAFA is pleased to announce the launch of Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF).

JAF publishes original, empirically based contributions that present new insights to the study of human behaviour through audio-visual means. Watch and read the first issue at https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/index

JVE's spring 2016 issue has been published! Visit our website to watch the five peer-reviewed films (from five different countries) included in this issue.

Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) Journal of Video Ethnography, a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center, is a peer reviewed journal that aims to advance the social scientific use of video or film as a method for exploring human society, systems, and cultures and as a medium for presenting the findings of thos...

JVE's Editor in Chief, Greg Scott, recently completed a mini-documentary on Paul McCartney and his induction of Ringo Starr into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Class of 2015). Here it is:

Paul McCartney inducts Ringo Starr to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://www.PaulMcCartney.com --- On Saturday 18th April 2015 Paul McCartney inducted his friend Ringo Starr into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Here's a loo...

One of our favorite ethnographic documentary films of all time: *The Gleaners and I* by the inimitable and legendary Agnes Varda. Nobody does reflexivity in film the way Varda does it. It's a must-see .... (French w/ English subtitles)

Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse This is "Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse" by WDROTV on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Here's an excerpt from *Journal de France*, a gorgeous film by one of our favorite filmmakers, Raymond Depardon ...

“He told me he longed to make a film from the unseen footage he carefully stores in the basement—his first steps with a camera, his early TV reporting jobs, outtakes, and snatches of his memory ..."

Raymond Depardon: Journal de France Take to the coast with the acclaimed Gallic documentarian

Do you know the work of Jose Luis Guerin? If not, you might want to check it out.

"Guerín's films purposefully confound narrative and documentary traditions, discovering rich narrative threads woven into the tapestries of his real life subjects and unraveling mysteries without solutions that nevertheless leave the viewer deeply satisfied."

Here's an excerpt from his brilliant 2001 film *En Construccion* ...

En Construcción (2001) José Luis Guerín En un emblemático barrio popular de Barcelona, amenazado por un plan de reforma, se emprende la construcción de un bloque de viviendas. Queríamos conocer la ...

Here is an article about JVE in the latest edition of *Distinctions*, a DePaul University magazine:

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Do you know about Visual Ethnography (the journal)? If not, you might want to check it out!

Visual Ethnography VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY is a peer-review journal dedicated to researches on 1) the production and use of images and audio-visual media in the socio-cultural practices; 2) digital cultures; 3) contemporary art and anthropology; 4) anthropology of art; 5) vision and gaze; 6) senses and culture; 7) objects,…

Do you know about the open access online journal Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture??? If not, you should check it out! They're now in a position to accept video submissions for review and possible publication. We're very excited about this development, as we've long hoped for the emergence of many more outlets for peer reviewed video content.

InVisible Culture | An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in vis…

The most recent issue of JVE includes the wonderful film *Country Crush* by Molly Merryman.

Visit our site to get your totally FREE subscription to JVE and watch Molly's film and all of the other peer-reviewed and profoundly entertaining ethnographic documentaries we have published.

"Country Crush focuses on a little known competitive sport: combine harvester demolition derby. Filmed in the rural farming community of Columbiana County in Ohio, Country Crush reveals the central importance of local fairs to rural community, the impact from the loss of family farms, and the significance of male friendship and competition is small communities, all while focusing on a fun and unique sporting event."

Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) Journal of Video Ethnography, a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center, is a peer reviewed journal that aims to advance the social scientific use of video or film as a method for exploring human society, systems, and cultures and as a medium for presenting the findings of thos…

The submission period for Issue 3 (Sept 15 publication) has begun! We will accept submissions for peer review until May 1. See the JVE website for information on how to submit your film for review and possible publication.

Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) Journal of Video Ethnography, a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center, is a peer reviewed journal that aims to advance the social scientific use of video or film as a method for exploring human society, systems, and cultures and as a medium for presenting the findings of thos…

The most recent special issue of JVE features an exceptional film by John Bishop: "In the Wilderness of a Troubled Genre." This film considers the ethos, practicalities, practices, and ethics of making films about real people across cultures. It includes pioneers in the field like Robert Gardner, John Marshall, David MacDougall, and Richard Leacock; established filmmaker anthropologists such as Paul Henley, Sarah Elder, Rolf Husmann, Metje Postma, and Michael Yorke; as well as emerging filmmakers.

Get your FREE subscription to JVE and gain access to this and all other peer-reviewed films we publish.

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If you get a chance, please check out the short experimental film that Wes Shrum (Ethnografilm) and Greg Scott (JVE) made for the UNESCO 2015 Year of Light program. It premiered today in Paris!

Light Years 4 Dec 2014 Since the beginning of modern cinema, viewers and critics alike have been transfixed by light contrasted with darkness. This interplay of light and dark was typical…

Ethnographic Film Series at Illinois State University, January - April 2015

Ethnographic Film Series explores challenges, movements across the world - Illinois State... The Ethnographic Film Series delves explores politics, folktales, crimes and tolerance through film. All films will be shown on Mondays at 6 p.m. in Schroeder Hall, room 138.

As 2015 began, our page broke 200 likes. Thank you all for following us! Stay tuned- we have a new issue coming out in a few months and many exciting plans for 2015.

Three weeks ago we published our first Special Issue, featuring film selections from the first annual Ethnografilm Festival. If you haven't viewed the Special Issue yet, head to www.videoethno.com to check it out! Don't know what Ethnografilm is? Visit the Ethnografilm Festival site to read more about the festival behind the films.

Ethnografilm Festival | Profoundly Entertaining Submit before December 1st for reduced rates at Withoutabox! Filmmakers, note that Withoutabox (WAB) recently allowed free submissions of screeners. If you would rather use a Vimeo link, add it to your film Synopsis in WAB. Please do not send a DVD.

In 1970 John McDonald, then a student at the University of Southern California, made "Cotton Eyed Joe," a short ethnographic documentary film about the daily survival strategies employed by the homeless. It's definitely worth (re)watching!

Cotton Eyed Joe This is "Cotton Eyed Joe" by John McDonald on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

CALL FOR REVIEWERS!
JVE is looking to recruit peer reviewers who have experience in documentary filmmaking, social science, ethnographic research, and/or visual arts.

If you're interested in serving as a reviewer, contact Dr. Greg Scott at [email protected]

Please help us spread the word if you know of any other potential candidates. Thank you!

Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) Journal of Video Ethnography, a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center, is a peer reviewed journal that aims to advance the social scientific use of video or film as a method for exploring human society, systems, and cultures and as a medium for presenting the findings of thos…

Friends of JVE: what's your favorite ethnographic documentary film you've seen this year? Give us some movie recommendations in the comments below!

A very well-researched and nicely-written story of how Sony's VX1000, a handheld digital video camera first released in 1995, revolutionized documentary and narrative cinema.

Video's Gutenberg Moment How the VX1000 camera revolutionized news, documentaries, and p**n.

"More and more academics are using film to present and communicate their research world...for the greater narrative power film brings and means of reaching a wider audience."
Nice piece on the Ethnografilm Festival and JVE.

Peer review transformed to the big screen - World Social Science Blog …

Interesting essay by Jeffrey Ruoff on ethnographic documentary film, fiction film, and surrealism in the work of Luis Buñuel.

An Ethnographic Surrealist Film The Rhetoric of FictionLand Without BreadNarration in the Fiction FilmStage FrightThe Usual SuspectsNo LiesTriumph of the Will(back)

What's your favorite cinema for seeing ethnographic documentary films? Here in Chicago we're very fond of Facets Cinematheque. What is the name and location of your favorite ethnografilm-friendly cinema?

Useful and interesting review of the film "The Human Scale: Bringing Cities to Life."

Anthropology News I think most anthropologists already agree with the main premises of this film: that the best way to design cities or buildings is to ask people what they want and observe what they do, that people are sociable creatures, that cities designed for automobiles are not suitable for humans, that democra…

Friends of JVE: Tell us about your own ethnographic film/video work!

Brilliant and hilarious parody of ethnographic film.

How Black People See White Culture - Darkest Austria I have no legal claims for this video. A mockumentary about how black people see white culture "Darkest Austria" (1994) is a spoof film about the native trib...

To celebrate the publication of her book *Video Methods: Social Science Research in Motion* (Routledge 2014), visual sociologist Charlotte Bates has opened a wonderful new online space for the study and demonstration of video methods in social research. Check it out: http://videomethods.tumblr.com

Video Methods Social Science Research in Motion edited by Charlotte Bates (Routledge 2014)

"Even though indie filmmakers of today can make as many cuts as they want and then erase them just as fast, does this lead to better filmmaking?" Interesting piece on the switch to non-linear editing systems.

From Flatbed to Avid: Has the Switch from Physical to Digital Editing Changed Filmmaking for Good? I was in the last generation of filmmakers to cut their teeth on old Arriflex 16mm cameras and Steenbeck editing tables (do the math, but I'm old). Since the advent of non-linear editing hardware and software, it seems as though films have gotten -- faster, but is this really the case, or an optical…