PAST CAMRA PROJECTS
Resources for Education and Action for Community Health in Ambler (REACH Ambler)
Camra is a partner on the REACH Ambler project which explores the history, environmental health, and community identity of Ambler, Pennsylvania, through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF). Through methods connected to oral history, public history, and science studies, the REACH Ambler project team has collected and contextualized diverse viewpoints and information from Ambler residents and institutions. See website for all films! Project Members: Matthew Tarditi and Jabari Zuberi |
Manufacturing Ambler from Matthew Tarditi on Vimeo. |
The Public Classroom @ Penn Museum
This documentary film focuses on the Morton skull collection, notorious for its institutionalization of “scientifically” justified racism. The documentary is part of a larger project by the University of Pennsylvania to make questions of race and science accessible to a general public, with material that could be easily digestible by students from late middle school onwards. Visit website here! Co-Directors: Arjun Shankar, Melissa Skolnick, Andrew Hudson, Ore Badaki. |
LISTENING TO THE WALLS: a visual ethnography of three religious spaces in one place
(2016) A short film (13min 12sec) which explores the place of Wat Preah Buddha Rangsey in South Philadelphia. Methodologically this film focuses on material culture and religion and seeks to situate the built places and constructed spaces, (architecture, windows, textiles, sculpture, and painting) as a central protagonist within the focus of religious studies. The film follows the production of particular religious spaces through the construction, rehabbing, and repurposing of buildings. Once an Orthodox Jewish Synagogue, a Lutheran Christian Church, and a paper box factory, currently the structures have been reconstructed into a beautiful Khmer (Cambodian) Theravada Buddhist Temple complex in the urban setting of South Philadelphia. |
TARAROKO (Butterfly)
Radio program about sonic and musical practices from the Northwestern Amazon region broadcasted between January and May by Yurupari Estereo 104.3 FM, a grassroots radio station located in Mitú, Uaupes-Colombia, 2016. Description: Twelve podcasts in Tukanoan and Spanish languages. Director: Juan Castrillon. Project collaborator: Enrique Llanos Miariki. Language: Spanish, Tukanoan. |
#LoveWITHAccountability
Created by award-winning filmmaker/cultural worker, incest and rape survivor Aishah Shahidah Simmons, #LoveWITHAccountability is a new multi-media campaign for child sexual abuse and incest survivors of African descent to speak out in solidarity and to share their testimonies and solutions for creating accountability for the violence done to them within their families. Funded by the Just Beginnings Collaborative and supported by the Penn School of Social Policy & Practice, #LoveWITHAccountability addresses the profound harm that comes – especially for people of color – when the only option for addressing child sexual abuse is punishment and incarceration. Website: http://www.lovewithaccountability.com/ |
REHAVi (Timekeepers)
In a neighborhood in Istanbul an abandoned watch awaits on a stairwell. An elder passing by finds it and takes it home with the idea of repairing it and returning it to the same spot for someone else's luck. A watchmaker finds a city inside the watch in which other clocks and their owners tell stories about how time is inscribed through arts. When the old man picks it up the watch returns to its original place and continues the journey by its own. Description: Fiction film, 30-minutes, 2016 Director: Juan Castrillon Project collaborators: Feride Hatiboğlu, Maria Giraldo Language: English, Turkish |
Anthropological Airwaves Podcast
Anthropological Airwaves is a podcast that explores the craft of anthropology in all of its forms. Building on the journal’s commitment to four-field, multimodal research, the podcast hosts conversations about anthropological projects—from fieldwork and publishing to the discipline’s role in public debates. By demystifying the craft of anthropology, the podcast broaches a series of fundamental questions about past, present, and future disciplinary practice, and charts new paths for anthropological engagement. Executive Producer: Arjun Shankar Producer and Editor: Kyle Olson Producer and Editor: Nooshin Sadeghsamimi |
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Cry Out Loud
Cry Out Loud is a collaboratively produced feature length film that explores the lives of several men and women from the diverse African community who reside in Khirki Extension, Delhi. The film, a project conceived by visual anthropologist Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, puts cameras in the hands of a crew of young men from Somalia who, over the course of a year, worked on all aspects of production and post-production. Together, Dattatreyan and the crew narrate through film the stories of everyday life of Cameroonian, Nigerian, Ugandan, Ivorian and Somali men and women of Khirki that put into perspective the violent eruptions that occur during filming that targets them as undesirable outsiders and that have since catapulted Khirki into the media spotlight |
Impolite Conversations
It has often been said that one shouldn’t talk about religion or politics, in certain settings, for fear of alienation or offense. But what happens when not only do you talk about religion and politics; but you add sex, money and race to the discussion? You get an honest, informative and unflinching conversation that can serve as part wake-up call, and part call-to-action. This is what you can expect to find the new book IMPOLITE CONVERSATIONS: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money and Religion by Cora Daniels and John L. Jackson Jr. This project is a web series that follows Daniels and Jackson in their collaboration on the book. |
Episode 2: Cora's Idea? from John Jackson on Vimeo. |
The Ward
CAMRA and the Ward Project have agreed on a two-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded collaboration, “Interpreting the Color Line: Mapping, Drawing and Story-telling across Three Centuries."
Quba – Teach for Allah: American Citizenship and Islamic Education in West Philadelphia A Film-Making and Film-Teaching Project
What is the relationship between religious education and secular citizenship? Through visual ethnography—conducted by local community members and graduate researchers from the University of Pennsylvania—this project examines the multiple forms of citizenship incorporated into the educational mission of the Quba Institute, a historic Islamic school in West Philadelphia.
What is the relationship between religious education and secular citizenship? Through visual ethnography—conducted by local community members and graduate researchers from the University of Pennsylvania—this project examines the multiple forms of citizenship incorporated into the educational mission of the Quba Institute, a historic Islamic school in West Philadelphia.