TOCOCU Festival of Ethnographic and Documentary Film
Lisbon, Portugal | 9-12 Septembre 2010

About the Festival
Organised by Nadège Chabloz (Centre d’études africaines, EHESS) and Corinne Cauvin Verner (Centre d’histoire sociale de l’islam méditerranéen, EHESS), as part of Tourism and Seductions of Difference: International Conference of the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network (TOCOCU).

Tourism generates forms of contact few cinematographers have seriously engaged with. The vast majority of reportages and documentaries dealing with tourism denounce its presumed neocolonial logic of social destruction, caricature tourists as idiosyncratic ignorants or claim tourism as a factor for economic development. Making fun of the naivety of tourists trapped in exoticizing decors and stage settings, many such films claim a moral superiority of the anthropological perspective and (travel) experience. Others, rarer, perpetuate an established tradition of constructing the tourist as a hero of modern time immersed in exotic and potentially dangerous foreign societies, doing charitable work and trying to make the world a better place.

This film festival brought together new and less new visual documents (films, video installations, etc.) that deal with tourism in less stereotyped ways, provoking debate and reflections on the seductive power of certain practices and destinations in tourism.

Film Jury
Simone Abram, Corinne Cauvin Verner, Nadège Chabloz, Saskia Cousin, David Picard, Noël B. Salazar

Winner
The Winner of the festival is:
Being a Tourist at home, 38 min., 2009, by Jaroslava Bagdasarova
DVD Pal, Russian (English subtitles)
Famu (Film and TV school), Prague, Czech Republic/MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.




For further information, please contact Nadège Chabloz [Nadege.Chabloz at ehess.fr].