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PETER BIELLA Curriculum Vita November, 2018 |
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Department of Anthropology |
Telephone: 415-405-0536 |
San Francisco State University |
Email: biella@sfsu.edu |
1600 Holloway Ave. |
Anthropology Faculty page: |
:San Francisco, CA
94132 USA |
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Personal homepage: http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/ |
EDUCATION
1984 |
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology,
Temple University. |
1979 |
M.A. Culture and
Communication, Temple University |
1975 |
M.A. Film Production,
San Francisco State University |
1972 |
B.A. Film Production,
San Francisco State University |
GEOGRAPHIC EXPERTISE
East Africa, Central America,
North America |
THEORETICAL FOCI
Visual Anthropology, Film and
interactive media, Maasai ethnography, Anthropology of AIDS, Student
Homelessness and Food Insecurity, Autoethnography, Fieldwork methodology |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pres-1998 |
Director, SFSU -Program in Visual
Anthropology |
2013-08 |
Director, SFSU-Tanzania Maasai
Migrants Field School |
2013-10 |
Professor, Dept. of Anthropology,
San Francisco State University |
2005-03 |
President, Society for Visual
Anthropology, American Anthropological Association |
2002-81 |
Executive Director, Contemporary
Historians, A 501(c)3 Corporation |
1998-96 |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Audio/Video/Film, Hofstra University |
1996-94 |
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of
Anthropology, University of Southern California |
1998-84 |
President, Documentary Film Co.,
Philadelphia |
HONORS, AWARDS AND
GRANTS
2016 |
First Place (Changa Revisited),
Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania. |
2013b |
First Place (The Chairman and the
Lions), ETNOFilm Festival, Rovinj, Croatia. |
2013a |
Jury Prize (The Chairman and the
Lions) Zanzibar International Film Festival |
2009i |
SFSU Faculty International
Development Grant - Tanzania Maasai Migrants Field School |
2009g |
Pixar Corporation / Walt Disney
Motion Pictures, $10,000 grant in support of the Tanzania field school |
2009g |
First Place, Photo Contest 2008,
American Anthropological Association (Mama Toreto) |
2009f |
Finalist, Photo Contest 2008, American
Anthropological Association (Toreto's Courtyard) |
2009e |
Award of Distinction. IV Moscow
International Festival on Visual Anthropology |
2009d |
Award of
Distinction. Days of Ethnographic
Film Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia |
2009c |
SFSU Faculty Travel Award |
2009b |
Elected Fellow, the Society
for Applied Anthropology |
2009a |
Sabbatical leave for fieldwork
among Tanzania Maasai |
2007b |
Best Short Film (Textiles in
Ayacucho). American Anthropological Film, Video and Multimedia Festival |
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2007a |
Jay Young Award, Department of
Anthropology, SFSU |
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2006d |
Editor, Special Issue on
Europe, Visual Anthropology Review |
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2006c |
Interviewee, Wadsworth Educational
Anthropology Series |
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2006b |
Outside Evaluator, Honors Program,
Dept. of Anthropology, Swarthmore College |
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2006a |
SFSU Community Scholarship Faculty
Award (with Greta Snider) |
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2008-02 |
Organizer, Film, Video and
Multimedia Festival Jury, American Anthropological Association |
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2005-3b |
President, Society for Visual
Anthropology. Board member since 1999 (platform) |
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2005-3a |
Editor, Visual Anthropology
Review |
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2000c |
SFSU Provost-sponsored
grant. Visual Anthropology/Digital Cinema Lab $40,000 |
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2000b |
SFSU Meth-Tech Grant. $80,000 for
Visual Anthropology classes' equipment |
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2000a |
Research, Scholarship and Creative
Activity Grant. San Francisco State University writing summer stipend |
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1998 |
Award, American Anthropological
Association Film Festival. Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight on CD-ROM |
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1993-01 |
Apple Computer
Corporation $5,000 grant for development of interactive media in
anthropology |
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1990 |
First Prize in Public
Health, and Festival's Most Creative Entry (for AIDS in the
Barrio) John Muir Medical Film Festival, Walnut Creek, CA |
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1989-08 |
Film production grants totaling
$100,000 for AIDS in the Barrio, from Philadelphia Foundation,
Phoebe W. Hass, Paul Robeson Fund, Bread and Roses Fund, and Philadelphia
Department of Health |
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1988 |
Film production grant of $26,000
from New York Council on the Arts for God's Mother is the Morning Star |
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1979-75 |
University Fellowship, Temple
University's highest graduate support award |
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RESEARCH AND FIELDWORK
PROJECTS
2013-07 |
Director of SFSU-Tanzania Maasai
Migrants Field School |
2009b |
Romania, for two films about the
village of Magura |
2009a |
Ethnographic consultant, Pixar
Corp., on the feature film, John Carter of Mars |
2008-07 |
Tanzania, for two books and
multimedia companions |
2006 |
Ayacucho, Peru, for educational
films |
2005 |
Northern British Columbia, for
applied educational multimedia |
1997 |
Southern Mexico, for educational
film |
1995 |
Patterson, NJ, for ethnographic
film |
1992 |
Morazán Department, El Salvador,
for PBS documentary |
1991 |
Gros Morne, Haiti, for educational
film |
1990 |
Auburn, NY, for ethnographic
film |
1989-07 |
Philadelphia, PA, for applied film
ethnography |
1985c |
San Jose, Costa Rica, for
ethnographic film |
1985b |
Stan Creek, Belize, for
educational film |
1985a |
Luxor, Egypt, for ethnographic
film |
1980 |
East Central Tanzania, for Ph.D.
research |
INVITED PAPERS AND
PRESENTATIONS
2017b |
Trigger Films and Focus Groups.
Presentation at "Visual Matters: The role of anthropology in producing
and analyzing visual material". Meetings, American Anthropological
Association, Dec. 2. |
2017a |
Guest lecturer, National
Autonomous University of Mexico, Department of Sociology. March 14-18. |
2016b |
Coming of Age in Films of Memory.
American Anthropological Association, Nov.17. |
2016a |
Visual Triggers, Maasai
Vulnerabilities. Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver. March 30. |
2013b |
Three-day workshop in Ethnographic
Hypermedia. ETNOFilm Festival, Rovinj, Croatia. April 23-5. |
2013a |
Master Class in Applied Visual
Anthropology. ETNOFilm Festival, Rovinj, Croatia. April 27. |
2012 |
Participant, Visual Anthropology
on the Pacific Rim. Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. |
2011 |
Ethnographic Guile (with Daniel
Chein). Visual Research Conference, American Anthropological Association.
Montreal, Quebec. November. |
2010e |
Maasai Migrants Trigger
Films: From Field School Production to Post-Screening Discussion (with
Leonard Kamerling). The Visual Research Conference. Meetings of
the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2010e.pdf |
2009e |
The Idea of a Field School.
Session chair and presenter. Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, Philadelphia, PA. Dec. 3. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2009e.pdf |
2009d |
Collaboration in Visual
Anthropology. Session chair and presenter. Ethnomusicology
Symposium, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 24. |
2009c |
Migrant Maasai. Meetings of
the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM. March 21. |
2008b |
Maasai Migrants: A Case Study in
Applied Visual Anthropology. Visual Research Conference, American
Anthropological Association, Nov. 18. Abstract available at http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2008b.pdf |
2008a |
An African Case Study in Applied
Visual Anthropology. International Conference on Audio-Visual
Anthropology, Moscow, October 8. |
2006a |
A DV and a Place to Screen: The
Lever of Applied Visual Anthropology. Meetings of the Society for Applied
Anthropology, Vancouver, British Colombia. March 29. |
2005c |
Guest Speaker, EASA Workshop: The
Frontiers of Visual Anthropology. Oxford University. (program) |
2004b
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New Directions in Digital Visual
Anthropology. Workshop presented, with Kate Hennessy, at the Meetings
of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta GA. November 30. |
2002b |
Guest Speaker, The University of
the Western Cape, South Africa. Sponsored by Dr. Steve Robins, Department of
Anthropology. March 26. |
2002a |
Guest Speaker, University of Cape
Town, South Africa. Sponsored by Dr. Susan Levine, Department of Social
Anthropology. March 20-28. |
2001c |
Keynote Speaker. Intimacy and
Scholarship: Interactive Media in Anthropology. University of Gottengen. Annual Meetings of the German Ethnological
Society (Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Volkerkunde)
Oct. 10. |
2001b |
Keynote Speaker. Visual
Anthropology: A Critical Perspective. Ashby Dialogues. University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, March 30. |
2001a |
The
Legacy of John Collier, Jr. Presented at the Max Plank Institute, Göttengen, Germany, for the Origins of Visual
Anthropology Conference, June 26. |
2000c |
Visual Anthropology in the Plague
Year. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, San Francisco, Nov. 17. |
2000b |
Tierney Interactive.
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Visual Research Conference, San
Francisco, Nov. 15. |
1999b |
Micro, Macro and Emotion in Visual
Anthropology. Presented at the 15th Annual Visual Research Conference,
Chicago, Nov. 16. |
1999a |
Guest Lecture. Yanomamo
Interactive. Presented at the Faculty Colloquium of the UCLA Department of
Anthropology, April. |
1998 |
Poster Session: Digital Visual
Anthropology. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 3. |
1997 |
Presenter. Workshop in Digital
Visual Anthropology. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington. |
1992b |
Invited paper. Visual Anthropology
Verbatim: Honoring John Collier, Jr. Presented at the Annual Meetings
of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 18. |
1992a |
Teaching Anthropology on Computer.
Presented at the Visual Research Conference, Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 17. |
1991b |
Maasai Interactive: A Prototype
for Computer Courseware in Visual Anthropology. Visual Research Conference,
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. |
1991a |
Presenter. Workshop in Applied
Visual Anthropology. Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology,
Charleston, SC. |
1990 |
AIDS in the Barrio: Eso No Me Pasa
a Mi. Paper presented at the Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, New Orleans |
1988 |
Filming AIDS in the Barrio: A
Study in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ. |
1985 |
A Visual Anthropologist's Survival
Guide. Presented at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Washington, Nov. 21. |
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
/ FILMS IN PROGRESS
Forthc. Forthc. Forthc. Forthc. Forthc. |
Trigger Films and Focus Groups. Anthropology and Humanism. The First Decade of Ethnographic
Hypermedia. To appear in Handbook of Ethnographic
Film and Video. Phillip Vannini,
ed. London and New York: Routledge. Nothing Never Happens. Film, 16 min. Short exploration of how a
director’s and translator’s biographies led to a chain of false translations and
misunderstanding of events. Kibaya Conversations. Film, 60 min. Diachronic exploration of how
a Maasai focus group, which discussed several of my Maasai films as ‘trigger’
stimuli, enacted health interventions. Schizotopy. Writing With Light - A
collaboration between Cultural Anthropology and Visual Anthropology Review.
Dec. 4, 2016. |
MS MS |
Maasai Interactive. Ethnography
and interactive DVD courseware (with 530 photographs, 3.5 hours of transcribed,
translated and subtitled audio in Swahili and Maa, and 1000 pages of text). Collaboration in Conflict:
The Maasai Migrants Film Project. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2010c.pdf |
MS |
Words from the
Heart. Autoethnography / biography and interactive DVD. |
TEXT PUBLICATIONS
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2013 |
Interview with Film director and
Anthropologist Peter Biella. Zarez [Croatia] 15:136-145. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2013.pdf |
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2012 |
Visual Anthropology. In How to Get
Published: A Guide for Anthropological Professionals. Pp.
112-123. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. |
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2011c |
Lost in Eternity (with Iván
Drufovka). In Interventions:
Magura Past and Present. Steve Mills, ed. Pp. 75-90. Bucharest:
Renaissance Press. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2011c.pdf |
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2011b |
Coherent Labyrinths. Visual
Anthropology Review 21(1):1-20. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2011b.pdf |
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2011a |
Charging Rhino (film
review of David E. Simpson's Milking the Rhino). Current Anthropology
52(2):304-6. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2011a.pdf |
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2009b |
Visual Anthropology in a Time of
War. In Viewpoints:
Visual Anthropologists at Work. Mary Strong and Laena Wilder, eds.
Austin: University of Texas Press. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2009b.pdf |
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2009a |
Elementary Forms of the Digital
Media. In Viewpoints:
Visual Anthropologists at Work. Mary Strong and Laena Wilder, eds.
Austin: University of Texas Press. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2009a.pdf |
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2008c |
A DV and a Place to Screen: The
Lever of Applied Visual Anthropology. In Audiovisual
Anthropology: Theory and Practice. Pp. 160-171. Moscow: Lomonosov
Moscow State University. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2008c |
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2007c |
The Legacy of John Collier, Jr.
[reprint of Biella 2002c] In The
Origins of Visual Anthropology; Beate Engelbrecht, ed. Bern and Berlin: Peter
Lang Verlag. |
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2007b |
Coherent
Labyrinths. DIVA Occasional e-texts in Visual Anthropology
(online) 1:(1). Preview at: http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/perry/coherent.html |
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2007a |
Editor's Introduction
to Visual Anthropology of Europe. Visual Anthropology
Review 23(1). http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2007a.pdf |
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2005b |
AnthroSource Financial Crisis
[here including a Commentary by Sandy Berlin and Stacy Lathrop and
Biella's critique of it.] Anthropology News 46(9):62-4. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2005b.html |
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2005a |
Honorable Mention
Award: Breaking the Silence [film review]. American
Anthropologist 1-7(2)242-244. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2005a.pdf (scroll
to the bottom of page 242) |
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2004c |
Essential
Messages: The Design of Culture-Specific HIV-AIDS Media (with Kate
Hennessy and Peter Orth). Visual Anthropology Review 19 (1-2):56-102. http://bss.sfsu.edu/biella/varcd/fsetp.html |
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2004b |
Editor's Introduction. Visual
Anthropology Review 19(1-2):1. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2004b.pdf |
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2003a |
Meet the Scientist: Culture
specific AIDS education. In William A. Haviland, Anthropology,10th ed.,
CD-ROM component. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. |
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2002f |
The Ax Fight on CD-ROM.
In Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film. Douglas Lewis, ed. Chur and
London: Harwood Academic Publishers; pp. 239-262. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/axfight/updates/biellaintroduction.html |
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2002e |
John Collier, Jr., Visionary
Education. Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed.http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2002c.pdf |
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2002d |
Book Review: Experimental
Ethnography by Catherine Russell. American Ethnologist
29(3):743-744. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2002d.pdf |
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2002c |
The Legacy of John Collier, Jr.
Visual Anthropology Review 17(2):1-11. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2002c.pdf |
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2002b |
AAA Statement on Ethnographic Visual
Media (with Jeff Himpele, et al.). American Anthropologist
104(1):303-6. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2002b.pdf |
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2002a |
Japanese American Internment
Curriculum (with Ivan Drufovka) 200-screen compendium of educational
materials relating to the Internment. http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/ |
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2001b |
Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual
Anthropology, 375 cross-referenced sites. http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/index.html |
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2001a |
Prison House of Light. Visual
Anthropology 14:65-75. |
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2000b |
Visual Anthropology in the Plague
Year. Anthropology News 41(9):3. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2000b.pdf |
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2000a |
Public email on The Ax
Fight scandal. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella2000a.html |
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1999 |
Santeria Web. An anthropological
analysis of documents related to the 1993 Supreme Court decision (508 US
520), pp. 1-150. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/biella/santeria/dec1.html |
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1998b |
The Ax Fight on CD-ROM. Visual
Anthropology 11:145-174. |
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1998a |
Poster detailing interactivity of
Yanomamo Interactive. http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/images/Poster.jpg |
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1997b |
Mama Kone's Possession: Scene from
an Interactive Ethnography. Visual Anthropology Review
12(2):59-95. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella1997b.pdf |
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1997a |
Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight
(CD-ROM). With Napoleon A. Chagnon and Gary Seaman. Fort Worth: Harcourt
Brace; pp. 1-29. Sample screens and texts available at: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/axfight/ . |
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1996 |
Interactive Media in Anthropology:
Seed and Earth: Promise of Rain. American Anthropologist
98(3):595-616. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella1996.pdf. |
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1995c |
Academic Hypermedia: A Reply and
Update. Visual Anthropology 7(4):240-8. |
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1995b |
Contributing Editor, nine columns
per year, Anthropology Newsletter |
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1995a |
Codifications
of Reality: Linear and Nonlinear. A reply to Marcus Banks. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella1995a.pdf.
Bank's original essay, Interactive Media, A Skeptical View: http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/banks1994.htm. |
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1993b |
The Design of Ethnographic
Hypermedia. In Anthropological Film and Video in the 1990s. Jack
R. Rollwagen, ed. Brockport, NY: The Institute; pp. 293-341. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella1993b.pdf. |
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1993a |
Beyond Ethnographic Film:
Hypermedia and Scholarship. In Anthropological Film and Video in the
1990s. Jack R. Rollwagen, ed. Brockport, NY: The Institute; pp.
131-176. |
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1991b |
Hard Computers, Soft Sciences and
the Humanities. Bits & PCs: The Newsletter of Temple University Computer
Services, Sept. pp. 3, 19. |
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1991a |
Criteria for Style and Content in
Ethnographic Film. Commission on Visual Anthropology Review, pp. 37-41. |
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1989 |
Trouble Shooting: Overcoming
Problems of Collaboration with Filmmakers. New York Folklore 15(3-4):47-67. |
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1988 |
Against Reductionism and Idealist
Self-Reflexivity: The Ilparakuyo Maasai Film Project. In Anthropological
Filmmaking: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production of Film and Video
for General Public Audiences. Jack R. Rollwagen, ed. Chur and London: Harwood
Academic Publishers; pp. 47-72. |
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1984 |
Theory and Practice in
Ethnographic Film: Implications of the Ilparakuyo Maasai Film Project. Ph.D.
dissertation, Temple University; pp. 1-305. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/biella1984.pdf |
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1981 |
Maasai Solutions: East African
Dispute Settlement. Photographs by Richard Cross. Philadelphia: Contemporary
Historians (limited edition); pp. x-54. |
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1979 |
The Logic of Irony: An Analysis
of Mary Hartman! Temple University Working Papers in Culture and
Communication 3(1):1-175. |
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FILM, VIDEO, MULTIMEDIA
PUBLICATIONS
2016 Changa Revisited (60 min.) Co-directed
with Leonard Kamerling; edited with Daniel Chein.
Watertown,
MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
2013 The Chairman and the Lions (46
min.). Director (produced by Frank Kaipai Ikoyo, Juma Mriga,
Kelly
Askew, Howard Stein). Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources. http://www.der.org/films/chairman-and-the-lions.html
2012. Maasai Migrants Series (116 min.).
Producer (with Leonard Kamerling, Simon Meigaro, Kellen
Prandini, Michael
Crammond and Shamia Sandles). Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational
Resources. http://www.der.org/films/maasai-migrants-series.html
2011 |
Undala Conversations (26 min.,
with R. Thomas Ropsin and Allison Jablonko). Watertown, MA: Documentary
Educational Resources. http://www.der.org/films/undala.html |
2010-08 |
Strange and Sacred Noise (56
min.). Camera operator (directed by Leonard Kamerling).
NEA/PBS feature documentary about a symphony performed in Danali National
Park. |
2009b |
Magura: The Transformation of a
Romanian Landscape (24 min.). Producer (with Iván
Drufovka; directed by Douglass Bailey). Funded by the
European Union. |
2009a |
Eternity was Born in the
Village. (46 min.) Director (with Iván Drufovka; produced by
Douglass Bailey). Funded by the European Union. |
2008e |
Introduction to the Maasai
Migrants Film Project. Description of and fundraiser for Tanzanian
field school in applied visual anthropology. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/introduction/introduction.mov. |
2008d |
Maasai Speak Out on AIDS and
HIV. Produced in collaboration with LIVES: Livelihood Initiative
Support, a Maasai-directed NGO in Tanzania. Distributed by Documentary
Educational Resources Watertown, MA. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/Mobile_Maasai.wmv |
2008c |
Maasai Migrants. Produced in
collaboration with Emburis-Engai, a Maasai-directed NGO in
Tanzania. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown,
MA. |
2008a |
Four Stories. (17 min.)
Health professional immigrants in the United States assisted in becoming
certified and finding work by isco
Welcome Back Initiative. |
2006 |
Artes en Ayacucho/Arts in Ayacucho
(28 min.). Three videos highlighting textile, ceramics and embroidery
production in the Peruvian Andes. http://online.sfsu.edu/biella/textiles/textiles.mov |
2005 |
Dane Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and
Songs: Dreamers and the Land. Project
visual anthropologist and youth video production mentor.
Web project for language repatriation, British Columbia. Amber Ridington and
Kate Hennessy - producers, project coordinators, exhibit curators and
community consultants. |
1997 |
Hofstra / Chiapas.
Producer/director/cinematographer for a video concerning Hofstra University's
month study-tour to southern Mexico. Linda Longmire, producer. |
1996 |
California Koreans Project.
Producer, camera operator for a multimedia work on path-breaking
Korean-Americans in Southern California. Displayed in the Korean-American
Museum, Los Angeles, Soo-Young Chin, curator. Producer/director, Joseph Kim. |
1995 |
Paterson, New Jersey: Immigrants,
Workers and the Transformation of American Capitalism (52 minutes).
Director/cinematographer. A comparative study of Paterson's contemporary
Peruvian and 1930s' European immigrants. Produced by Jack R. Rollwagen. |
1994 |
Photo exhibit of sixty images for
the exhibit celebrating the opening of the film God's Mother is the
Morning Star. Auburn, NY: Schweinfurth Art Center. |
1993 |
Tete-a-Tete. (seven 15-minute
segments). Directed Betacam studio productions of French
language conversations, Stockton State College, NJ. |
1992 |
El
Salvador: Portraits in a Revolution (56 min.); hosted by Bill Moyers. An El
Salvadoran village, repatriated from Honduras, takes the name of an
assassinated Jesuit priest. Producer, camera operator; with Laura Jackson,
executive producer. Multiple PBS airings in 1992-94. |
1991b |
Haitian Partnership (22 min.).
Educational needs of a Haitian village. Distributed by the Episcopal Diocese
of Maryland. |
1991a |
God's Mother is the Morning Star:
The Life and Art of Joseph Mender (29 min.) Portrait of a 91-year old
Lithuanian immigrant, Karen Lux. Multiple PBS airings, 1991-1992. |
1990 |
For Those Who Sail to Heaven (42
min.). Religious syncretism in an Egyptian Saint's Festival; with Elizabeth
Wickett, exec. producer. Distr. First Run/Icarus Films. |
1989 |
AIDS in the Barrio: Eso no me pasa
a mi (30 min.). Bilingual Puerto Rican AIDS education 'trigger film;' with
Ivan Drufovka. Distributed by Cinema Guild, NY. |
1987b |
I'm Not Prejudiced, But ... Korean
Groceries in Black Neighborhoods (29 min.). Cultural and economic components
of racism; with Hong Joon Kim. Distr. Ethnovision, Philadelphia. |
1987a |
Ka Tei: Voces de la tierra (22
min.). Cultural consequences of illegal deforestation for a Costa Rican Cabecar
Indian community; with Ivan Drufovka. |
1975 |
Priscilla, My Daughter (35
min.). Relationship between two lesbians and the mother of one. |
1972 |
Is This a Free School? (18
min.). Failed aspirations of an alternative school in San Francisco. |
FILM AND VIDEO
SCREENINGS
2019c Moscow Anthropological Film Festival,
‘Mediating Camera.” Moscow. May 24.
2019b Riga Pasaules
Film Festival. Riga, Latvia. April 25.
2019a Days of Ethnographic Film. Ljublgana, Slovenia. March 6.
2018b Athens Ethnographic Film Festival. Athens. November
21.
2018a MAAILMAFILM: Tartu World Film
Festival. Tartu, Estonia. March 21
2017b Society for Visual Anthropology, Film and
Media Festival. Washington, DC. November
29.
2017a RAI
International Film Festival. Bristol, England. March 30.
2016d Jean
Rouch International Film Festival. Paris. Nov. 13.
2016c Astra
International Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania. Oct. 22.
2016b NAFA
Ethnographic Film Festival. Bergen Norway, Sept. 23.
2016a RAI
International Film Festival - WEST. Los Angeles. March 5.
2014i |
SIEFF - Sardinia International
Ethnographic Film Festival. Nuoro, Italy. |
2014h |
Nepal International Indigenous
Film Festival - NIIFF. Kathmandu, Nepal. |
2014g |
NAFA - Festival of the Nordic
Anthropological Film Association. Isafjordur, Iceland. |
2014f |
Göttingen International
Ethnographic Film Festival. Göttingen, Germany. |
2014e |
ETHNOCINECA - Ethnographic and
Documentary Filmfest. Vienna, Austria. |
2014d |
Ethnografilm Festival. Paris,
France. |
2014c |
11th Annual World Film Festival.
Tartu, Estonia. |
2014b |
International Ethnographic Film
Festival of Québec. Cartier, Quebec City. |
2014a |
Days of Ethnographic Film.
Ljubljiana, Slovenia. |
2013c |
ZIFF - Zanzibar International Film
Festival. Stone Town, Zanzibar. |
2013b |
SIEF Congress. Tartu, Estonia. |
2013a |
ETNOFilm Festival of
Ethnographic/Anthropological Film . Rovinj, Croatia. |
2012e |
Festival of Visual Anthropology
ASPEKTY. Turon, Poland. |
2012d |
Jean Rouch International Film
Festival. Paris, France. |
2012c |
Society for Visual Anthropology
Film and Multimedia Festival. San Francisco. |
2012b |
Heart of Slavonia, 9th
International Film Festival. Djakovo, Croatia, |
2012a |
RAI Conference and
Film Festival, London. |
2010a |
American Anthropological
Association Film, Video and Multimedia Festival, New Orleans. |
2009b |
American
Anthropological Association Film, Video and Multimedia Festival,
Philadelphia. |
2009a |
FIDE: Festival Internacional de Documental
Etnográfico.
Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Rio Piedras. |
2008c |
IV Moscow
International Festival on Visual Anthropology, Russian Institute for Cultural Research and Moscow
State Lomonosov University |
2008b |
Days of Ethnographic
Film Festival. Ljubljana, Slovenia |
2008a |
Representing Cultures. Ethnographic Film Workshop, University of Seville |
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2007c |
Human Rights in the Aspect of
Interculturalism. Torun, Poland |
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2007b |
American Anthropological
Association Film, Video and Multimedia Festival, Washington, DC |
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2007a |
Royal Anthropological Film
Festival of Ethnographic Films, Oxford |
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2002 |
Milwaukee Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Film/Video Festival |
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2000 |
The Guggenheim Museum, Fever in
the Archive series New York |
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1993 |
Primetime Broadcasts, US
major-market cities |
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1992 |
Primetime Broadcasts, East Coast
cities |
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1991b |
Primetime Broadcasts, East Coast
cities |
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1991a |
Berlin Film Festival, film
screening |
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1989 |
Indigenous American Film Festival,
Caracas, Venezuela |
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1988 |
American Film and Video Festival,
Honorable Mention, New York |
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1977 |
Margaret Mead Film Festival, New
York |
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