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Moving into New Facilities!

Update: November 23, 2020. After early two years of discussions, planning, applications, and then construction, the new purpose-built digital production space for The Ethnographic Film Unit @ UBC is now a reality. Due to the ongoing pandemic we won’t be able to physically use the new space for some time. However, things are moving forward and furniture is soon to be moving back into the rebuilt space. While the new lab was primarily envisioned as production facilities for the Film Unit, other members of the department will be able to…read more

Welcome to the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC blog

The ethnographic film unit at ubc has formally been in existence since 2005 and informally since 2001! We had our start in research-based videography and have long since morphed into a full-time digital video production unit. For nine years we hosted an annual international festival of anthropological film at times co-hosted with MOA and at times co-hosted with the University Neighbours Association. Every few years we teach a course in ethnographic film production, ANTH 478.