| Film
series continues at USU
January 26, 2005 | LOGAN — The
Utah State University Museum of Anthropology and Cache
MicroCinema present On Cannibalism by artist
and filmmaker Fatimah Tobing Rony at 4:30 p.m Feb. 3
in Old Main Room 115.
Rony will present her work and explore the relationship
between visual art and anthropology, focusing on her
video, On Cannibalism.
Rony is a filmmaker, writer and associate professor
of film and media studies at UC Irvine, Calif. She received
her doctorate from Yale University and a master’s
of fine arts in film (directing/production) from UCLA.
Her book The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic
Spectacle (Duke University Press) won the 1998
Katherine Kovacs Prize from the Society of Cinema Studies
for Outstanding Book on Film and Television. Her video
On Cannibalism has been shown domestically
and internationally in several festivals and art museums,
including the Museum of Modern Art.
In On Cannibalism Rony explores "the
West’s insatiable appetite for native bodies in
museums, world’s fairs and in early cinema."
To make her point, she has intertwined personal narrative
about race and identity in the United States with layered
footage, artifacts and video effects.
The presentation will be followed by a small reception
in Old Main Room 243
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