Audiovisual Remix: Film Essay as Trace

Audiovisual Remix brings together a selection of film essays by anthropologists who turn to montage, archival reworking, and layered sound to grapple with histories that resist linear narration. Moving across sites marked by violence, rupture, and political transformation, the showcased works treat the audiovisual not simply as a medium of representation, but as a method of inquiry—one capable of tracing affect, memory, and absence where conventional ethnographic forms fall short.

The screening and the Q&A with directors explore how remix—that is, to juxtapose, splice, and reorder images, voices, and temporalities—can open critical spaces for rethinking how histories of power are assembled and contested. Fragments of testimony, found footage, and observational scenes are reconfigured to reveal the uneven textures of lived experience and the afterlives of violence and political change. In doing so, the films ask what it means for anthropology to think with and through images and sounds, and how the essay form can hold together uncertainty, contradiction, and political urgency.

Audiovisual Remix invites viewers into an ongoing process of listening, looking, and reassembling—foregrounding the ethical and imaginative possibilities of the film essay as a practice of engagement that is both historical and urgent.

Will include works by the participants and facilitators of the "Audiovisual Remix" TRACTS workshop (April 2025). The event is sponsored by the Anthropology Department at the University of St Andrews and the Centre for Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths. Q&A facilitated by Dr Aimée Joyce and Dr Lee Douglas. Directors will be present for the Q&A.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Adam House Cinema, The University of Edinburgh, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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