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Alan Marcus of the Film and Visual Culture programme at the University of Aberdeen encouraged me to join this list as he thought that the activities of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, at the University of Manchester would be of interest to MECCSA members. The Granada Centre was founded in 1987 and since then has developed a broad range of practise-based teaching and research activities. If you would like to find out more, please click http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/visualanthropology/. Here you can now access some 30 or so of our student films, plus find out about all our other activities. 

Most imminently, in late May-June, these other activities include our two practical summer short courses, each of two weeks duration. One is introductory and involves making three short films on classic anthropological topics (a technical process, an oral testimony and a social event), the other will be primarily focused on editing, and participants, supported by one-to-one tuition, will turn eight hours of rushes (theirs or ours) into a 15-20 minute film. For each course, fees are £975 for concessions and £1125 for standard registrations. Please see the link below.

You might also like to know about my new book on Jean Rouch, an anthropological film-maker first and also last, but at the same time one who had a major impact on the French New Wave, particularly Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. I attach some details below.  We shall be launching this book with a screening of a Rouch classic, Moi, un Noir, an 'ethnofiction' about urban migrants in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast, that won the Prix Louis-Delluc (the French equivalent of the Oscar) in 1959. This is one of the films that influenced the tyros of the New Wave, but it is rarely screened in the UK. Hosted by inSight Education, the Department of Anthropology at University College, London (UCL) and the Royal Anthropological Institute, the event will take place 6.30-9.30, Thursday 3 June at UCL. I will give a short talk beforehand about Rouch's impact on the New Wave. The precise theatre has yet to be determined, but watch this space!

I look forward to reading your own posts in due course.

best wishes, Paul Henley

Professor of Visual Anthropology