Review Essay: The Films of Simone Rapisarda Casanova

Authors

  • Peter Dickinson School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2019-0022

Keywords:

Ethnographic film, experimental documentary, ethnofiction, visual anthropology, Jean Rouch, Simone Rapisarda Casanova

Abstract

This essay examines three feature-length works by Italian-Canadian experimental film maker Simone Rapisarda Casanova. I discuss how Rapisarda’s collaborative and process-driven methods draw from a tradition of “shared ethnographic” filmmaking advanced by Jean Rouch, but also how Rapisarda innovates this tradition through his aesthetic and technical choices.

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How to Cite

Dickinson, P. (2020). Review Essay: The Films of Simone Rapisarda Casanova. Anthropologica, 61(2), 354–358. https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2019-0022

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Film and Exhibit Reviews