Announcement:
The spring 2012 issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review, entitled “Women’s Camera Work: Asia,” has just been released. This issue includes over 200 photographs, representing past and present women photographers working in Thailand, Japan, India, China and Korea, along with scholarly writings, which expand our knowledge of the field.
Link: http://tapreview.org/
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Thursday, January 7, 2010
SPARROW: Sound & Pictive Archive for Research on Women
This project and website was recently announced in H-ASIA. While not necessarily related to Japan (it seems to focus on Indian women) it is still an interesting application of visual anthropology. Here is a partial description from its own homepage:
SPARROW is:
A trust set up in 1988 [Register Number E-11958] in Maharashtra to build a national archives for women with print, oral history and pictorial material.
A live archives reaching out to schools, colleges, women's groups and other organisations.
An active agent of conscientisation.
A forum for discussions.
An interactive space
A daring flight into unexplored areas of experience and expression.
SPARROW believes:
That recording, reviewing, recollecting and reflecting on women's history and life and communicating this information in various ways is an important activity in development.
That change is possible with knowledge and awareness -- of women's lives, history and struggles for self-respect and human dignity.
Check it out:
http://www.sparrowonline.org/index.htm
SPARROW is:
A trust set up in 1988 [Register Number E-11958] in Maharashtra to build a national archives for women with print, oral history and pictorial material.
A live archives reaching out to schools, colleges, women's groups and other organisations.
An active agent of conscientisation.
A forum for discussions.
An interactive space
A daring flight into unexplored areas of experience and expression.
SPARROW believes:
That recording, reviewing, recollecting and reflecting on women's history and life and communicating this information in various ways is an important activity in development.
That change is possible with knowledge and awareness -- of women's lives, history and struggles for self-respect and human dignity.
Check it out:
http://www.sparrowonline.org/index.htm
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Asian Women's Film Festival, Berlin, October 2009
From H-Asia:
The 1st Asian Women's Film Festival was successfully launched in October 2007 at the Cinema Arsenal, Berlin. More than 40 films representing diverse genres from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong were screened. International guests attended the festival which also encompassed Q&A sessions, a symposium "The Women's Survival Guide to Filmmaking in Asia", and networking activities. The festival is scheduled to be held once every two years.
The AWFF welcomes film and video works directed, written, shot, edited and produced by Asian women. We are looking for works which question and challenge rules of normalcy regarding gender and ethnicity. The 2009 program will be divided into five sections: *New Currents, Asian-Diaspora, Short Films, Experimental and Documentary*.
Does it all have to be about identity politics? While this issue does play a significant role in our program, it is really not intended to be an exclusive criterion for selection. Rather, the festival is conceived as a platform where categories, genres and subjects themselves can be proposed, opposed, declined and negotiated; different ways of re/presentation performed.
For more information:
http://www.asianwomensfilm.de/2009/
The 1st Asian Women's Film Festival was successfully launched in October 2007 at the Cinema Arsenal, Berlin. More than 40 films representing diverse genres from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong were screened. International guests attended the festival which also encompassed Q&A sessions, a symposium "The Women's Survival Guide to Filmmaking in Asia", and networking activities. The festival is scheduled to be held once every two years.
The AWFF welcomes film and video works directed, written, shot, edited and produced by Asian women. We are looking for works which question and challenge rules of normalcy regarding gender and ethnicity. The 2009 program will be divided into five sections: *New Currents, Asian-Diaspora, Short Films, Experimental and Documentary*.
Does it all have to be about identity politics? While this issue does play a significant role in our program, it is really not intended to be an exclusive criterion for selection. Rather, the festival is conceived as a platform where categories, genres and subjects themselves can be proposed, opposed, declined and negotiated; different ways of re/presentation performed.
For more information:
http://www.asianwomensfilm.de/2009/
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