Filming the future's pasts: Future-making amidst ruination

Description

The Kenyan Rift Valley has been a destination for internal migrants in search for labour in the tourism sector, fisheries, as well the international cut-flower and horticultural companies for some decades now. In the course of changing industries, job-seekers and their descendants have had to adjust and adapt their skills almost continuously.

However, in processes of ruination, as for example the decreased tourism industry at Lake Baringo, or a shut-down flower farm in Naivasha, a large community suddenly finds itself in the situation of needing to relearn specific skills in order to make a living otherwise. In this presentation, I will revisit methods and approaches I have employed in order to find a way of accompanying these processes audio-visually. Furthermore, I will discuss a collaboration with a professional cameraperson in which we have sought formats and styles which render visible the context of collapsing industries, while at the same time focusing on individual stories.

Period	24.07.2020
Event title	16th EASA Biennial Conference - EASA 2000: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe
Event type	Conference
Conference number	16
Organisers	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, University of Lisbon
Location	Lisbon, PortugalShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International