Tag: Film

Markku Lehmuskallio in Rovaniemi – Pre-screening meeting with the film maker

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, Spirituality2 Comments

for many of our readers Markku Lehmuskallio won’t need an introduction. He is a world acclaimed film maker, and a friend of our team. Some of you may remember their previous visit, when we hosted them with some reindeer meat. See here https://arcticanthropology.org/2012/08/31/anastasia-lapsui-and-markku-lehmusskallio-guests-of-the-team-in-rovaniemi/ This time Markku continues his loyalty to us in the North and …

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The Khanty Bear Feast revisited

On By Stephan DudeckIn All, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Spirituality1 Comment

I have visited the Western Siberian Khanty in the vicinity of the oil towns in the Surgut region for twenty years now. Never could I have imagined I would see a performance of the famous Khanty Bear Ceremony documented thirty years ago by the Estonian intellectual and film director Lennar Meri in his film ”The …

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Supporting Visual Anthropology, Tromsø

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Fennoscandia, teaching1 Comment

Dear readers, some of you may remember the film on Khanty fishing in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug, Siberia, Russia by an Estonian graduate, Janno Simm. That film "Autumn on Ob River" came out in 2004 as a masters work at the Tromso visual anthropology programme. Now it seems that this programme is under threat of being …

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Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmusskallio – guests of the team in Rovaniemi

On By arcticcentreIn All, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Spirituality, Theoretical Issues2 Comments

We all know and admire the films by Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui about the life and history of the Nenets people. On the 30th August 2012 they came to the Arcrtic Centre in Rovaniemi for a preview of their latest film “Eleven human images” (Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa). This film reflects the worldview of Markku …

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Gas and reindeer herders at the source of the heat for Europe

On By FstammleIn All, Extractive Industries, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North

I just watched a two part programme by the english language Tv channel of Russia, Russia Today. It has some very good footage and visual impression of the situation at the place where most of our European Gas comes from (which is also my number one field site since the mid 1990s). Lots has changed …

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