Ethnofiction

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Ethnofiction

Ethnofiction is a term that is used to provide a new contemporary sound to an older terminology (neologism ) particularly dealing with docufiction (a term coined from the combination of the words documentary and fiction film . In visual anthropology , ethnofiction refers to ethnography or the genre of writings which gives an elucidating study or point of view regarding human societies . Predominantly , the results of the holistic research method are presented by ethnography and can be used in ethnofiction . In addition to this

, ethnofiction also consists of both formal and historical connections . A lot of cultural anthropologists and ethnologists are using ethnofiction in their works and consider it as the essence of discipline

Jean Rouch , the most renowned ethnologists , specifically considered as the father of ethnofiction ' was able to understand and discover that in making events which are registered by the camera . Consequently , the camera in this scenario or scene becomes a participant . Due to practice research and documentaries are lavished with the idea of using cameras This is in accordance to Rouch 's aim of furthering his goals , objectives and introduction of the actor as a tool in the film or in Rouch 's research . According to Brian Quist , through Jean Rouch a new genre (of filmmaking ) was born

Jean Rouch is an innovative French director who definitely fathered the movement called cinema-verite . Jean Rouch 's style of filmmaking is a spontaneous one that blurred between or consists of educational ethnographic and fiction film . Rouch filmed in many West African countries where he was able to train and support actors , cameramen technicians and directors . One of his apprentices was Safi Faye . The African filmmakers that Jean Rouch promoted did not in the end become avant-garde cinema-verite directors , largely because they could not afford to take ten or twenty hours of rushes to produce a 45-minute feature , but he may have had an effect in other ways . When he set out to produce history he adopted a version of ethnographic realism . In 1975 he filmed a story situated in the late 19th century , Babatou , les trios conseils , with a crew of technicians from Niger and on the basis of a script written by the historian Boubou Hama

Following his work habits , he developed only minimally the dialogue which the actors fleshed out by improvisation on location . The team travelled around to find a suitable location . The problem was to find places that had not changed in a hundred years , without corrugated metal roofs or plastic containers . Without further safeguards this solution is illusory , because the sun-baked clay houses of the savannah rarely survive one hundred years and what appears old now may be an environment radically transformed during the colonial period . Jean Rouch 's search still reveals more concern for historical authenticity , compared to the shortcuts that Kabore takes , but is inspired by the same supposition that in Africa the actual looks like the historical once you remove from it what is ostensibly European origin...