#ethnofiction
The World Documentary Repository: J is for Jean Rouch.
One of the founders of cinéma vérité, who blurred the line between fact and fiction through an ethnofiction mode, where narrative frames and improvisation are used to unlock deeper sociological truths, as seen in Petit à petit (1969).
July 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
#aiart #promptshare
Title: "Otjize Marks for the Unreturned"
Style: Ethnofiction documentary with pictorialist soft focus, saturated earth reds and ochres against bleached sky
Prompt in ALT
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Release of An Elsewhere Anthropologist on #substack tomorrow!

Learn of a bestiary of the #anthropocene from medieval unicorns to cell towers hidden as trees, & the blending of categories that make our world.

#anthropology #fiction #writingcommunity #speculativezoology #specfic #ethnofiction
An Elsewhere Anthropologist | Substack
An Elsewhere Anthropologist explores the borderlands between fiction and ethnography, unearthing hidden truths from literature, folklore, and the wild edges of human experience. From author and studen...
elsewhereanthropologist.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
[IMISCOE 2025 - Side Event] 🎥 Projections de deux films documentaires & d'une ethnofiction

📅 2-3-4 juillet 2025
📍 @campuscondorcet.bsky.social, Centre des colloques
🎟️Entrée libre

Infos : www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/2025/06/17/i...
IMISCOE 2025 : Projections des films "Prisoners of Fate", "Favoriten" et "Doux-Amer" — 2, 3, 4 juillet, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers - Institut Convergences Migrations
Dans le cadre de la 22e confé­rence annuelle de l’IMISCOE, que l’IC Migra­tions accueille du 1er au 4 juillet 2025 au Campus Condorcet à Auber­vil­liers, des évène­ments cultu­rels ...
www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr
June 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A figure emerges from the landscape—a half-shaman, half-trickster.

Echoing of Jean Rouch, on his surrealist anthropology – questioning what is ritual and what is performance. Turning the mundane into the mythical.

King of the Castle. 70x70cms hand-coloured photograph.

#ethnofiction #TheSavageMind
February 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
📅 2 juillet : « Doux Amer » (Bitter Sweet) de Nicola Mai – Une ethnofiction co-écrite avec 11 femmes chinoises migrantes ayant eu une expérience de travail sexuel à Paris. Le film est le fruit d’ateliers participatifs co-animés notamment par Hélène Le Bail, chercheuse affiliée à l’IC Migrations.
June 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Speculative Anthropologies | Society for Cultural Anthropology #futureofeverything #ethnofiction https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/speculative-anthropologies
Speculative Anthropologies
At the intersection of speculative fiction and anthropolo...
culanth.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:42 AM
🎥 Projections de films documentaires et d’une ethnofiction :

◾ « Bitter Sweet » de Nicola Mai – 2 juillet, auditorium 150 du Centre des colloques, de 18h45 à 20h30 (projection-débat)
June 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
(Biofine is working on a scale biodiesel replacement for heating fuel. It would be a fucking GAME CHANGER for people in very cold climates)

I build my brand on the kind of nostalgia Americans actually want (the memory of things that worked) and not the kind they're being fed now (ethnofiction)
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New Publication - Land Deep in Time: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction

csn-rec.ca/news/69884-n...
May 6, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

Muppet Magic: the Work of Jim Henson
Ethnofiction & Poetic Realism
Copyright and Culture
Chinese Action Cinema
Video Games as Visual Culture
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

Typography
Glassblowing
Painting
Packaging
Great Works of The Arts & Crafts Movement
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

Political philosophy
Women’s studies
Sociology of education
Psychoanalysis
Water polo
January 31, 2026 at 1:16 AM