Un film sur la relation entre l'anthropologue Rina Sherman et une famille Omuhimba avec qui elle vécut durant sept ans, filmant et photographiant les aspects de leur quotidien et leurs rituels.

A film about the relationship between anthropologist, Rina Sherman and an Omuhimba family with whom she lived for seven years, filming and photographing aspects of their everyday and ritual lives. Halfway through her tenure in the field, Rina Sherman presented a multi-media exhibition, entitled The Ovahimba Years: Work in Progress in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. A group of young people from the community of Etanga travelled to Windhoek to participate in the exhibition.
The film explores the evolution of this relationship that lead to the exhibition, shows the group of young people discovering the presentation of their cultural heritage at the exhibition, holding performances as part of the programme presented, and shows the resulting discussions and consequences of the exhibition, once everyone is back in Ovahimba country. When Visitors Come is a film about an anthropologist in situ, and evokes several notions central to fieldwork, such as the nature of the bond between the observer and the observed, the observed observer, participant-anthropology and emotion as possible vector or hindrance in fieldwork.

30 mn, video, 2006.

Production : Art Cinématographique Artisanal | Low Tech Film Art.

Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards

Rencontres, Paris-Berlin, 2007
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