DER Documentary

Sensory Ethnography Lab Series

by filmmakers from Harvard University's Sensory Ethnography Lab

Pricing information and conditions

DER is pleased to be distributing works from Harvard University's acclaimed new Sensory Ethnography Lab. SEL supports original non-fiction media practices that explore the fabric of human existence through innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography.  The film, video, and other works created in SEL are typically at an angle to the prevailing conventions of documentary and ethnographic film, and attend to the many dimensions of cross-cultural social experience and subjectivity that are inexpressible with words alone.  Experimenting in the interstices of art and anthropology, the works included in DER's SEL series represent an important new addition and expansion to the field of modern visual anthropology.

SEL is directed by anthropologist and artist, Professor Lucien Castaing-Taylor, and managed by anthropologist, phonographer, and musician Dr. Ernst Karel.

More information can be found on the Sensory Ethnography Lab's website: sel.fas.harvard.edu.

Films in the Sensory Ethnography Lab Series
Demolition (Chaiqian) by JP Sniadecki (28 min, 2007)
Kāle and Kāle by Stephanie Spray (50 min, 2007)
Monsoon-Reflections by Stephanie Spray (22 min, 2007)
On Broadway by Aryo Danusiri (62 min, 2011)
Songhua by JP Sniadecki (28 min, 2007)
Still Life by Diana Allan (25 min, 2007)