Na czym polega „etnograficzność” filmu? Czyli o pewnym projekcie filmowej historii mówionej
What Is an Ethnographic Aspect of Film? Or About a Certain Oral History Film Project

Summary/Abstract: What is an ethnographic film today? The answer to this question is presented on the example of an oral history project conducted by the author and her research team in Cieszyn Silesia on both sides of the Polish-Czech state border, which consisted in collecting filmed narrative biographical interviews with elderly Silesian women. The film made of this material and the report on the work on it, as well as the discussion of traditional ethnographic films about the region constitute the context of considerations on the ethnographic film and an attempt to define this genre: it is primarily a (more or less) artistic documentation of a meeting with another human being, revealing his/her original voice, drawing attention to the cultural context of this meeting, based on thorough knowledge of the area, referring to important theoretical issues, reflecting the presence of researchers/filmmakers. The performative and subversive aspects are of great importance.

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