Zachary Stuart, Director, was trained as a documentary filmmaker at Harvard’s program in Visual and Environmental Studies. His first film This is Just This uses experimental sound and 16mm film to explore a first-person experience of North India. He produced and directed a documentary short on an ex-prisoner storytelling project Public Voices. He has worked on a number of interdisciplinary video and film projects including dancer Hana Van der Kolk’s memorial dance piece For Them, cinematography for the film Occupation and Faith Soloway’s Rock Operas Jesus Has Two Mommies and Miss Folk America. He has traveled to Israel to document an ecumenical Palestinian Pilgrimage which included interviews with Yasser Arafat.
In 1915, Bronislaw Malinowski set out to document the ‘exotic’ practices of a small group of islanders off the coast of Papua New Guinea. With extensive data on sex, magic and spirits of the dead, his work would set the stage for anthropologists for decades to come and bring him fame as one of the founding fathers of anthropology. Four…