Category: Africa

From Vues to Ethnofiction : French Ethnographic Filmmaking in Africa before Jean Rouch. Visual Anthropology 33 (1) : 32-80.

This is a much expanded and illustrated version of an article published in French in the Journal des africanistes in 2017

https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2020.1696126

Alfred Machin, de la jungle à l’écran. Paris: Dreamland.

Arquivos colonais e representações da alteridade nos documentários do Estado Novo. O caso das imagens en movimento da Cinemateca Digital. In Jorge Seabra, ed., Cinemas en português. Moçambique: Auto e Heteroperceções, pp. 101-116. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

Voyage en Angola de Marcel Borle : pratiques amateurs et cinéma ethnographique.  In Benoît Turquety and Valérie Vignaux, eds., L’ Amateur en cinéma : un autre paradigme. Histoire, esthétique, marges et institutions, pp. 96-107. Paris: AFRHC

A pdf version is available here

The People of the Aures Massif. The Geographical Journal 65 (1):  24-31.

Available here

‘Im Deutschen Sudan’. Film D1221 des IWF, Göttingen 1977. Publikationen zu Wissenschaftlichen Film, Sektion Ethnologie, Serie 8, no. 3. Göttingen: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film.

A pdf of this study guide is available here.

A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland: The Adventures, Observations & Experiences of a Cinematograph Actress in West African Forests whilst Collecting Films Depicting Native Life and when Posing as the White Woman in Anglo-African Cinematograph Dramas. With an Introduction by Major H. Schomburgk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & London: Seeley, Service & Co. This is available on-line here

This is an interesting, well-illustrated memoir about the expedition led by Hans Schomburgk while making Im Deutschen Sudan, as well as an number of ethnodramas in which Miss Gehrts was the star. In 1996, a French translation was published by the Université du Bénin which can be read on-line here