EthnoKino presents: Roads/Routes
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EthnoKino is an ethnographic film program curated by the collective of anthropology students at the University of Bern. More than just “documenting the real” visual anthropology makes full – and sometimes experimental – use of the potential of film in the quest to frame and experience manifestations of life from different cultural and political vantage points.
Roads produce possibilities. When they are impaired by fences and gates, the basic human right of following one's route is denied (Between Two Crossings). Roads can take on many forms: as railways they become infrastructural networks that enable social and technological transformation (The Iron Ministry). Yet, unavoidably, roads are the result of uprooting, of the remodelling of landscapes through human labour (Earth) – sometimes to the point that they become a symbol of human folly, a monumental reminder that roads can be a tool of conquest and invasion (Suspension). In the end, roads also mean the pathways one can get on, in order to reclaim the homeland that has been taken (Rituals of Resistance). We dedicate this season to the iron and concrete, and to those who walk the roads but end among the displaced.
Roads produce possibilities. When they are impaired by fences and gates, the basic human right of following one's route is denied (Between Two Crossings). Roads can take on many forms: as railways they become infrastructural networks that enable social and technological transformation (The Iron Ministry). Yet, unavoidably, roads are the result of uprooting, of the remodelling of landscapes through human labour (Earth) – sometimes to the point that they become a symbol of human folly, a monumental reminder that roads can be a tool of conquest and invasion (Suspension). In the end, roads also mean the pathways one can get on, in order to reclaim the homeland that has been taken (Rituals of Resistance). We dedicate this season to the iron and concrete, and to those who walk the roads but end among the displaced.