Abstract

PONTE, Inês. Crafting a doll and a film: challenges in filming a doll-in-the-making. Etnográfica [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.449-462. ISSN 0873-6561.

This article looks into Making a Living in the Dry Season, a research film grounded in a long-term stay at a highland agro-pastoralist village in Namibe province, Angola. The film is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of a family examining through the practice of doll-making a twofold notion of labour, that is, the labour in crafting and the labour in making a living. I explore insights acquired by the process of making this film and its relation with the end result, discussing the challenges of using filmmaking as a research method, and as an outcome into a film. I look at the knowledge generated in filming, and its subsequent editing and re-editing, paying attention to the role of differing partnerships in the overall production process and in shaping the finished film.

Keywords : visual anthropology; filmmaking; materiality; ethnography; Angola.

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