Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/husmann-rolf-c884all.aspx Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:09:32 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/the-professional-foreigner-p537.aspx Product537 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:58:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/the-professional-foreigner-p537.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/professional-foreigner.jpg" alt="The Professional Foreigner" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/the-professional-foreigner-p537.aspx">The Professional Foreigner</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/the-professional-foreigner-p537.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div>Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci are shown and discussed: the film takes us from Asen's youth in Istanbul to his career in Canada where he became famous for making the Netsilik Eskimo Series, to filming in Afghanistan and then turning to two other activities of his: as a networker for the Commission on Visual Anthropology (CVA) and as a teacher of Summer Schools in Siberia and Bulgaria.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>His film work among the Bulgarian Pomak and his still ongoing work in Sikkim (India) conclude the film which is not only the portrait of a famous expert in Visual <g class="gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="10" data-gr-id="10">Ethnography,</g> but also more generally touches upon vital issues of ethnographic filmmaking.</div><div><br /></div><div><hr><b><br /></b></div><div><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS</b></div><div>Mediating Camera - V Moscow International Festival and Scholarly Conference of Visual Anthropology, 2010</div><div>Dialektus Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2010&nbsp;</div><div>International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec (FIFEQ), Canada, 2010<div>International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/husmann-rolf-c884all.aspx">Husmann, Rolf</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>