Mixing Documentary, Anthropology And Art Film

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab: “It takes ethnography seriously. It’s not as though you can do ethnography with a two-day, fly-by-night visit somewhere. But it also takes ‘sensory’ seriously. Most anthropological writing and most ethnographic film, with the exception of some truly great works, is so devoid of emotional or sensory experience.”