Filmmaking For Fieldwork

If you are near Amsterdam 15-17 April, please attend the official launch of CameraWise: The Amsterdam Centre for Visual Anthropology. The event is free to enter and a full programme is available online https://visualanthropology.nl/film-festival

CameraWise will celebrate the opening of the FMG Media Lab at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) with seven fully funded spaces on the Filmmaking for Fieldwork (F4F) Summer School (Monday afternoons 8 June - 6 July) for researchers who work in the faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) at UvA. F4F’s Andy Lawrence will be present throughout the CameraWise event and for full details and to apply see https://visualanthropology.nl/courses

On Friday 17 April, 4-6pm we are launching our latest publication Empirical Art: filmmaking for fieldwork in practice (published by Manchester University Press in 2026 as part of the Granada Centre’s Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography book series). Volume editors and contributors will be present to answer questions posed by anthropologist Jeanette Pols, followed by a wrap party for CameraWise with food and drinks. See the CameraWise film festival flyer for details https://visualanthropology.nl/film-festival

Film Festival - CameraWise The CameraWise film festival takes place from 15-17 April 2026 and will feature a selection of ethnographic films and celebrate the FMG Film Lab launch