Abstract
Call Me Back (Sjöberg, 2021) is an ethnographic research film. It has been screened at the following international film festivals, and presented within an academic context as a method to conduct ethnographic research on the fieldwork interlocutors’ understanding of the future:
• Freiburger Filmforum, Germany, May 2023
• Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen organised by Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bremen, Germany 20 January 2022
• Ethnofest in Athens, Greece 23 November 2021
• German Anthropological Association (GAA) Annual Meeting Germany, 29 September 2021
Visual Anthropologist Professor Sarah Pink at Monash University (Australia) has also written a book chapter on the film ‘Call Me Back’ after its completion in ‘Doing Visual Ethnography’ (Sarah Pink, 2021)
16 July 2014, 18 year old James enters a phone booth in Shipley, North England, to start a dialogue with his future self, posing pressing questions about the future of his life and world. One year later, 19 year old James walks into the same phone booth responding to his past self, revealing changed outlooks and perspectives. During the year, a shopping centre is being built in the background of the phone booth, putting the change of time and immediate environment of James' home, on display. The film explores how projective improvisation in ethnographic film could contribute to the anthropological understanding of how the participants of the fieldwork and filmmaking relate to the future, especially with regards to scientific predictions about environmental and climate change.
• Freiburger Filmforum, Germany, May 2023
• Ethnografische Filmtage Bremen organised by Institut für Ethnologie und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Bremen, Germany 20 January 2022
• Ethnofest in Athens, Greece 23 November 2021
• German Anthropological Association (GAA) Annual Meeting Germany, 29 September 2021
Visual Anthropologist Professor Sarah Pink at Monash University (Australia) has also written a book chapter on the film ‘Call Me Back’ after its completion in ‘Doing Visual Ethnography’ (Sarah Pink, 2021)
16 July 2014, 18 year old James enters a phone booth in Shipley, North England, to start a dialogue with his future self, posing pressing questions about the future of his life and world. One year later, 19 year old James walks into the same phone booth responding to his past self, revealing changed outlooks and perspectives. During the year, a shopping centre is being built in the background of the phone booth, putting the change of time and immediate environment of James' home, on display. The film explores how projective improvisation in ethnographic film could contribute to the anthropological understanding of how the participants of the fieldwork and filmmaking relate to the future, especially with regards to scientific predictions about environmental and climate change.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Manchester, UK |
| Publisher | First Public Screening at Talking Uncertainty, Emergent Futures CoLab |
| Edition | 1 |
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Sept 2021 |