Review Essay: The Films of Simone Rapisarda Casanova
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https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2019-0022Keywords:
Ethnographic film, experimental documentary, ethnofiction, visual anthropology, Jean Rouch, Simone Rapisarda CasanovaAbstract
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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