A partial bibliography of paper presentations and film screenings by students in the year-long Visual
Anthropology course (2001 to 2007), taught by Peter Biella and
colleagues, at the
San Francisco State University Department
of Anthropology
Unless otherwise indicated, each student's
home department
is Anthropology
Bertolini, Elsa (MA 2004, Human Sexuality) and
Stephanie
Miller (BA 2004, Cinema)
2004 Prom Night (color, 30 minutes).
Awards
2005
Horizons
Foundation, Completion Fund, $4,000.
Festival
screenings.
2005a Vancouver
Queer Film and Video Festival.
August 12.
2005b Bernal
Heights Outdoor Cinema. September
10.
2005c Hot
Springs Documentary Film Festival. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.
Oct.
22.
2005
Reeling:
The 24th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival. November 5.
2006
Long
Island G & L Film Fest.
Huntington, NY. November
12.
Brassey, Dom (MA 2006, Communications), Joe
Golling (BA
2006, Cinema)
2006
(Re)Sisters Rising: Helping
Girls Stay Out of the System.
Presentation at the session on Applied Visual Anthropology:
Theory
Practice and Collaboration,
Annual Meetings
of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, March 28.
Deutsch, Megan (BA 2007)
Marc-Eddy Loriston (BA 2007, Cinema)
2007 B-Gyrl
Manifesto (color, 15 min.). Film
Screening:
4th SFSU Annual Human Rights Summit, San Francisco State University. May 2.
Garland, Laura (BA
2006)
2006
The
Urban Midwifery Video Project.
Presentation at the session on Applied Visual Anthropology:
Theory,
Practice and Collaboration. Annual Meetings of the Society for
Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, March 28.
Gawryn, Kerry (MA
2006, Social
Science), Donna Leo (BA 2006), Brooke Lords (BA 2006, Cinema), Sarah
Spradling
(BA 2006, Cinema), Patrick O'Hearn (BA 2006, Cinema) and Victor Murillo
(BA
2006, Cinema)
2006
Exposing
Homelessness (color 22 min.)
Distributed by
Documentary Educational Resources. Watertown, MA. http://www.der.org/films/exposing-homelessness.html
2006a Screened:
Red Vic Movie House, San Francisco, Aug. 19.
2006b Exposing
Homelessness. Paper presented at
the Visual Research Conference, American Anthropological Association,
San Jose,
CA, Nov. 15.
2006c Exposing
Homelessness. Recipient, Jean
Rouch Award,
American Anthropological Association Film, Video and Multimedia
Festival. San Jose, CA. Nov. 17.
Gill, Harjant (BA
2005) and
Jesse Cortez (BA 2005, Cinema)
2004
Some
Reasons for Living (color, 16 min.). Distributed by Tilotama
Productions,
Washington, DC. http://www.tilotamaproductions.com/films.html#TWO
Conference and
Educational
Screenings
2005a 5th
Annual IASSCS Conference on Sexual Rights and Moral Panics, San
Francisco State
University, CA.
2005b Regional
Symposium on Sexuality & Borders, Bowling Green State University,
OH.
2005c 12th
Annual Conference on Lavender Languages & Linguistics, American
University,
Washington, DC.
Film Festivals
2003a SF
Cinematheque.
2003b Valley
Film Festival, North Hollywood.
2004a Home:
Chicago Trans/Gender Queer Film Festival.
2004b 12th
Cine Accion Latino Film Festival, San Fransisco.
2004c ImageOut
Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
2004d LesGaiCineMad
Madrid International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
2004e OUTrageous
Santa Barbara Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
2004d 14th
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia.
2004e Seattle
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
2004f 28th
Frameline SF Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
2005a Out
At Movie Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, North County, NY.
2005b HOT
TOPIC! Trannyfest Film Festival, San Fransisco.
Gonzalez,
Marc-Tizoc (MA
2002, Social Science) and Seth Robert Babb (BA 2002, Cinema)
2001a Explicating
Graffiti. Paper presented at the
17th Annual Visual Research Conference of the American Anthropological
Association. Washington, DC.
November 26.
2001b Up &
Over: San Francisco 2000. Paper presented at the Visual Culture
Conference: A Future for the Anthropology of Visual Communication. Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC. November 29.
Lindberg, Tess (BA
2002, Cinema)
2002
Friendly
Ghosts. Paper
presented at the 18th Annual Visual
Research Conference of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, November 19.
Selby, Lynn
(Extended Learning,
2002)
2001
Critical
Consciousness as a Goal of Applied Ethnographic Film. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Visual
Research
Conference of the American Anthropological Association.
Washington, DC. November 26.
Suniewick, Ethan
(MA 2007,
Human Sexuality), Ann McNair (BA 2008) and Derek Brockett (BA 2007,
Cinema)
2007
TRANSforming
Health Care: Promoting Transgender Cultural Competency in Medical
Settings.
Film screening: 4th SFSU Annual
Human Rights Summit, San Francisco State University.
May 2.
Wolowic,
Jennifer (BA 2006), Lyra Frederick (BA 2006) and Bret Suding (BA 2006,
Cinema)
2006a Coaching
Club: Life Skills, Basketball, and Video.
Presentation at the session on Applied Visual Anthropology:
Theory
Practice and Collaboration,
Annual Meetings
of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, March 28.
2006b Visual
Research Conference, American Anthropological Association, Nov. 15.
2007b Malcolm
X Academy. Best
Student Film, American Anthropological Association
Film, Video and Multimedia Festival. Washington, DC.
Screened Dec. 1.
2007a
Visualizing Childhood: Methodological
Approaches and Challenges. Paper
presented at Royal Anthropological Film Institute Annual Meetings.
Manchester,
England. June 29.