10^th RAI INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
27 JUNE - 2 JULY 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

INCORPORATING A MAJOR CONFERENCE:
BEYOND TEXT: SYNAESTHETIC & SENSORY
PRACTICES IN ANTHROPOLOGY

CENTRE FOR SCREEN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES

GRANADA CENTRE FOR
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 1987 - 2007

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Previous Festivals

The RAI Festival is an itinerant event, moving from one university host to another on what is now a biennial basis. Previous hosts have included the Universities of London, Manchester, Kent, Durham and Oxford.

9th Festival - University of Oxford, September 2005.
See the legacy website at www.nomadit.co.uk/raifilmfest/

8th Festival - University of Durham, July 2003
See Anthropology Today, vol.19 (4), p.32 for a list of prize-winners

7th Festival - School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, December 2000
See Anthropology Today, vol.17 (2), pp.24-25 for a report by Sarah Pink

6th Festival – Goldsmiths College, University of London, September 1998.
See Anthropology Today, vol. 15 (1), pp.19-20 for a report by Carlos Flores on one of the sessions.

5th Festival - University of Kent, November 1996.
See Anthropology Today, vol.13 (1), pp.19-21, for a report by Suzette Heald.

4th Festival – University of Kent, November 1994.
See Anthropology Today, vol.11 (1), pp.23-24, for a report by Jack Goody.

3rd Festival – Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, September 1992.
See Anthropology Today, vol. 8(6), pp.23-24 for a report by Michael Eaton, and, in the same edition, pp.5-16 for ‘Defiant Images: the Kayapo appropriation of video’. This is the text of the Forman Lecture given by Terence Turner during the Festival. See also ‘In the time of the Ancestors’ by Paul Henley, a memoir about this and the 1990 Festival.

2nd Festival - Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, September 1990.
See Anthropology Today, vol.7 (2), pp.16-19 for reports by Gilbert Lewis and Don Kulick, and Anthropology Today, vol.7 (1), pp.3-10 for ‘Some films on death and their ethnographic merits’, the text of the Forman Lecture given by Peter Loizos during the Festival.

See also ‘In the time of the Ancestors’ by Paul Henley, a memoir about this and the 1992 Festival.

1st Festival - School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, September 1985.
See Anthropology Today, vol 1(6) pp. 22-26 for reports by Koen van Brabant, Rakhi Roy & Jayasinjhi Jhala. See also pp.2-4 of the same edition for the text of the Opening Speech delivered by Sir Denis Forman, then Chairman of Granada Television.