Film Series Continues at Utah State University

The Utah State University Museum of Anthropology and Cache MicroCinema present On Cannibalism by artist and filmmaker Fatimah Tobing Rony at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in Old Main room 115. Rony will present her work and explore the relationship between visual art and anthropology, focusing on her video, On Cannibalism.

 

Rony is a filmmaker, writer and associate professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine, Calif. She received her doctorate from Yale University and a master’s of fine arts in film (directing/production) from UCLA. Her book The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle (Duke University Press) won the 1998 Katherine Kovacs Prize from the Society of Cinema Studies for Outstanding Book on Film and Television. Her video On Cannibalism has been shown domestically and internationally in several festivals and art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art.

 

In On Cannibalism Rony explores “the West’s insatiable appetite for native bodies in museums, world’s fairs and in early cinema.” To make her point, she has intertwined personal narrative about race and identity in the United States with layered footage, artifacts and video effects.

 

The presentation will be followed by a small reception in Old Main room 243.