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When Visitors Come
Filmmaker Name:
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Rina Sherman
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Film Length:
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30 min
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Film Year:
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2006
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Duration:
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21-45 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Series:
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Ovahimba Years series
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Africa
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Subject:
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Methods and Practices
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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, 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 traveled 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.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS Rencontres, Paris-Berlin, 2007 Rina Sherman Retrospective, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2011 When Visitors Come
Directed by
Rina Sherman
Writing Credits
Rina Sherman
Produced by
Rina Sherman
Film Editing by
Rina Sherman
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