Sensory Ethnogr. Lab

The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard supports innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography that deploy original media practices.

[Cinema Guild @CinemaGuild]

"A mind-expanding inquiry on anthropology...and on cinema itself." -Manohla Dargis, @nytimes

@ernstkarel and @VKusumaryati's EXPEDITION CONTENT is now on @ovidtv. https://t.co/lTEy70mukV

[New York Film Festival @TheNYFF]

DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (dir. Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2022) | U.S. Premiere

A thrilling new work of nonfiction exploration which uses microscopic cameras and specially designed recording devices to survey the wondrous landscape of the human body. #NYFF60

[Cinema Guild Educational @CGeducational]

Assuredly subversive in their approach, @ernstkarel and @VKusumaryati nearly imageless, yet sensorially rich film is a bold attempt to shake cinema out of its formal rigidities. A decidely liberating experience even for the most seasoned moviegoers.

[Cinema Guild @CinemaGuild]

We can vouch for 2 of the docs @benkenigsberg recommends for @nytimesarts this week.

-New @TheAcademy member @LynneSachs1 FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO
-@sensethnlab's astounding LEVIATHAN

See them now if you haven't yet! https://t.co/uwUiyqDi7J

[Quinzaine des Cinéastes @Quinzaine]

🔴 LIVE 🔹 DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA🔹 w/ Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor and the cast #Quinzaine2022

https://t.co/KAISTEKEPN

[Medicine's Bizarre History @FaisalGhani_]

Illustrations from De humani corporis fabrica (Of the Structure of the Human Body) -1555 by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), 16th-cent. anatomist

Vesalius’s exposure of human architecture through meticulous drawings were Renaissance version of a modern CAT or MRI scan.

[DC Environmental Film Festival @dceff_org]

"Few films have explored the possibilities of a sonic cinema as methodically as EXPEDITION CONTENT" -@ScreenSlate

Co-presented by @ngadc. Don't miss this unique film & filmmaker discussion w/@ernstkarel & @VKusumaryati's - streaming FREE through Sunday! https://t.co/E8f0M9MLI4

[MAST Journal @mast_journal]

"How do the expedition’s sound archives speak to its
colonial and imperial contexts?"

Read @VKusumaryati & @ernstkarel's article: "Expedition Content and the Harvard
Peabody Expedition to Netherlands
New Guinea, 1961" in MAST's latest release:
https://t.co/SznAuDq9Ql

[DC Environmental Film Festival @dceff_org]

Looking for something unique at #DCEFF30? Check out our screening of EXPEDITION CONTENT w/@ngadc. The nearly imageless film documents an encounter between a 1961 expedition (among them Michael Rockefeller) & New Guinea's Hubula people. Stream it 3/18-27: https://t.co/07O4g13dmf

[OVID @OVIDtv]

"@Harvard @sensethnlab's Silva and Rawlings practice an immersive observational style that records the quotidian details of a subject until a kind of epiphanic insight occurs..." @pkeough1 @BostonGlobe

Legendary banjo player Lee Sexton in LINEFORK.

▶️https://t.co/0N3Qp8UNaM

[OVID @OVIDtv]

LINEFORK (2016) follows the daily rituals of Lee Sexton, retired coal miner and revered banjo legend. At age 88, he teaches his distinctive banjo style to a new generation, taking great care to preserve a vanishing cultural tradition.

New on OVID today!▶️https://t.co/0N3Qp8UNaM

[Charles Bramesco @intothecrevasse]

And we’re going to be looking into the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab very strongly. They’re making movies, it’s some really weird stuff. They call it Leviathan — I’ve been fishing. I’ve gone fishing, and I caught beautiful fish, no net. Manakamana. Mana. Ka. MANA

[Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia]

Blending and subverting various cinematic forms, 'Sweetgrass' and 'Leviathan' both see the innovative Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab working at the height of its powers. Read Bennett Glace's essay from our Best of the 2010s film series here:
https://t.co/6YQWSV7u92

[Campus Theatre @campustheatre]

BU FILM SERIES: The Bucknell Film Series at the Campus Theatre invites you to join them for a very special screening of EXPEDITION CONTENT, TONIGHT (2/1) starting at 7:00 PM. Admission is FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC!

[Acropolis Cinema @AcropolisCinema]

Opening *today* @musichall3: EXPEDITION CONTENT and SINGLE STREAM, two films from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab!

Immersive works for the ears and eyes, these films can only be experienced in a cinema. Shows at 2:30pm and 7:30pm daily. 🎟: https://t.co/tbEwpyokSR

[Acropolis Cinema @AcropolisCinema]

“An immersion into an exceptional site of temporal overlap…threatens to overwhelm the senses.” —@TheBrooklynRail

Don’t forget: the Sensory Ethnography Lab short SINGLE STREAM will precede each our screenings of EXPEDITION CONTENT—Jan 14-20 @musichall3! https://t.co/tbEwpyokSR

[Cinema Guild @CinemaGuild]

"We're not just word people, you know?" -@ernstkarel on the battle against "linguistic supremacy" in this wide-ranging interview with @misterminsoo.

Just 2 more days to catch EXPEDITION CONTENT at @AnthologyFilm. Opens in LA at @AcropolisCinema Fri!
https://t.co/ozre32Mwat

[In Review Online @InRO]

#ExpeditionContent is out now courtesy of @CinemaGuild, and it's a radical work of ethnography that "allows us to 'see' anew, where the violent dominance of visual information no longer reigns supreme." @ernstkarel @VKusumaryati

Words from Paul Attard. 👇
https://t.co/PTC8lXHEu7

[Acropolis Cinema @AcropolisCinema]

Just added to our run of EXPEDITION CONTENT, Jan 14-20 @musichall3:

SINGLE STREAM, a “mesmeric” (Film Comment), never-before-screened-in-Los Angeles short film co-directed by Pawel Wojtasik, Toby Lee, and Ernst Karel!

Info/tickets: https://t.co/tbEwpyokSR