CITY PLAY
Filmmaker Paloma Yañez Serrano presents her research "City Play: Exploring temporality and space in Cairo’s play dynamics" with the documentary film City Play undertaken for the MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary for the Granada Center of Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester
A project that in words of Doctor Christian Shur and Doctor Michelle Obeid is "based on a highly experimental and participatory research design in which Serrano provided cameras and camera instructions to two groups of children. The cameras were used by the children as a way of documenting and reflecting upon their play. In addition the cameras, the practice of filming, as well as Serrano’s research project were actively included by the children as part of and as platforms for their play. In this way Serrano allowed her project to be appropriated, transformed, and coloured by the forms of play she was studying. Some of the most fascinating parts of the thesis describe how Serrano herself was included and had her research project reformulated through the intervention of the children she was studying with."
'City Play' Official Selection:
XXIV International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, October 2015
Qabila's 3rd Annual Short Film Festival, Cairo, October 2015
Ethnofest, Athens, November 2015 https://www.ethnofest.gr/film/city-play/
Family Film Project, Porto, December 2015
Astra Film Festival Sibiu, October 2016
Film Up Screenings, Home Cinema, Manchester, December 2016
FIFEQ, Montreal, March 2017
Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology, Moscow, May 2017
Culese din Balkani Anthropological Film Festival, Bucharest, November 2017
Exhibits
Ethnofest screening of 'City Play' (2015, 31') in 'Ne(s)ts' Exhibit, as part of '2018 International Museum Day', under the Greek ICOM committee, with the Industrial Gas Museum and the Innovathens, Athens, May 18th 2018.
Publications
Yáñez Serrano, P. & Llorens Rocamora, B. (2017). City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children. Visual
Anthropology thematic thread, Allegra lab . Published April 18.
Available at: < http://allegralaboratory.net/city-play-collaborative-filmmaking-with-children/>
Nosso Morro. (2016). Dir. Paloma Yáñez Serrano. Teaching Anthropology/RAI Journal.
Available at: < https://www.teachinganthropology.org/wp/multimedia/>
Yáñez Serrano, P. (2015). City Play, Independent cinema. Ciné Woman. WacPress.
Available at: < https://issuu.com/wacpress/docs/cin_wom_15-16a_cinema_art/94>
City Play. (2015). Dir. Paloma Yáñez Serrano. Teaching Anthropology/RAI Journal.
Available at: < https://www.teachinganthropology.org/wp/multimedia/> and < http://granadacentre.co.uk/project/city-play/> and < https://www.ethnofest.gr/film/city-play/>
XXIV International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, October 2015
Qabila's 3rd Annual Short Film Festival, Cairo, October 2015
Ethnofest, Athens, November 2015 https://www.ethnofest.gr/film/city-play/
Family Film Project, Porto, December 2015
Astra Film Festival Sibiu, October 2016
Film Up Screenings, Home Cinema, Manchester, December 2016
FIFEQ, Montreal, March 2017
Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology, Moscow, May 2017
Culese din Balkani Anthropological Film Festival, Bucharest, November 2017
Exhibits
Ethnofest screening of 'City Play' (2015, 31') in 'Ne(s)ts' Exhibit, as part of '2018 International Museum Day', under the Greek ICOM committee, with the Industrial Gas Museum and the Innovathens, Athens, May 18th 2018.
Publications
Yáñez Serrano, P. & Llorens Rocamora, B. (2017). City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children. Visual
Anthropology thematic thread, Allegra lab . Published April 18.
Available at: < http://allegralaboratory.net/city-play-collaborative-filmmaking-with-children/>
Nosso Morro. (2016). Dir. Paloma Yáñez Serrano. Teaching Anthropology/RAI Journal.
Available at: < https://www.teachinganthropology.org/wp/multimedia/>
Yáñez Serrano, P. (2015). City Play, Independent cinema. Ciné Woman. WacPress.
Available at: < https://issuu.com/wacpress/docs/cin_wom_15-16a_cinema_art/94>
City Play. (2015). Dir. Paloma Yáñez Serrano. Teaching Anthropology/RAI Journal.
Available at: < https://www.teachinganthropology.org/wp/multimedia/> and < http://granadacentre.co.uk/project/city-play/> and < https://www.ethnofest.gr/film/city-play/>
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