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Book Review

Moderbacher, Christine. 2022. Craft and labour: Chambers, Thomas; Networks, labour and migration among Indian Muslim artisans. London: UCL Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 28(4): 1371–1372. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13831.

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Moderbacher, Christine. 2022. Lawrence, Andy: Filmmaking for Fieldwork: A Practical Handbook. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Visual Anthropology 35(3): 312–313. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2022.2094190.

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Christine Moderbacher

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Activities

18 November 2023
Screening and Discussion of INLAND
Christine Moderbacher and Danae Leitenberg (MPI Halle) are organising a screening of the film evening INLAND at Puschkino Halle for the conference "Losing one’s Place in the World: Rethinking Alienation as a Diagnostic for our Time" (MPI Halle).

October 2023
Warum bleiben?
Together with Matthäus Rest (MPI Leipzig), Christine Moderbacher made the Audio-guide/Podcast about the life of Agnes Primocic, as part of the project Orte des Gedenkens: Unterwegs mit Agnes Primocic, curated by Kathi Hofer.

8 September 2023
Filming the Enemy? Political Antagonism in Documentary Film
Together with Michael Karrer, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Christine Moderbacher co-hosts the panel at Visible Evidence.

7 June 2023
“Und wenn sie etwas sagen, was wir nicht hören wollen? Zerstören wir dann unsere Kamera?” Unbehagliche Beziehungen im Dokumentarfilm.
Christine Moderbacher gives a lecture at the „Medienwissenschaftliche Kolloquium“, Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.

31 May 2023
Visuelle Anthropologie und dokumentarische Perspektiven auf das politisch Andere
Christine Moderbacher gives a lecture at the DMK-BA-Seminar „Mediensoziologie“, Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.

12 & 13 May 2023
Filming the “enemy”? Political antagonism in (ethnographic) documentary film
Workshop organized by Christine Moderbacher (together with Michael Karrer) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Deutschland.

14 April 2023
The political opponent in my lens
Christine Moderbacher gives a lecture Pratiques audiovisuelles pour la recharge en sciences sociales at Lints - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en etudes culturelles, Maison Interuniversitaire des sciences de l’ Homme d’Alsace.

23 March 2023
Curation and Organisation of the film discussion Postmigrant perspectives in film - the Homes we carry und Semra Ertan
Film discussion within the context of the Bildungswochen gegen Rassismus in Halle, Deutschland.

16 - 19 March 2023
Nonfiktionale - Festival des dokumentarischen Films
Christine Moderbacher is part of the international jury at Nonfiktionale Filmfestival Bad Aibling, Germany.

March 2023
Book Publication: Markus Wurzer - Der lange Atem kolonialer Bilder. Visuelle Praktiken von (Ex-)Soldaten und ihren Familien in Südtirol/Alto Adige 1935-2015
Visual History. Bilder und Bildpraxen in der Geschichte 9, Göttingen: Wallstein 2023.

28 February 2023
„Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“
The short film „The world is blue at its edges“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF), UK.
The programme includes work by Mara Mattuschka, Valie Export, Maria Lassnig, Iris Blauensteiner and Christina Moderbacher, Katrina Daschner and Linda Christanell. Curated by Claudia Pilsl.

7 February 2023
„Future of Social- and Cultural Anthropology - possible paths“
Christine Moderbacher gives a lecture at the Seminar „Anthropology of the Future“ at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle, Germany.

19 January 2023
“Colonialism, Family Memory and Gender”
Markus Wurzer gives a lecture at the Kulturhistorischer Salon of the Department of Cultural and Gender History of the Institute of History, University of Graz, Austria.

14 January 2023
"Über das Scheitern von künstlerischer Forschung mit der Kamera in der anthropologischen Praxis"
Christine Moderbacher gives a lectre at the Symposium "Raum für Experimente. Beispielsweise Design und Anthropologie" an der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany

11 January 2023
Christine Moderbacher is co-moderating the screening & discussion of "Eine deutsche Partei" at the Montageforum, film University Babelsberg, Germany

8 December 22
The documentary film "Red Earth White Snow" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the anthropology class „Anthropology and Image“ at the ISCTE University of Lisbon.

1 & 2 December 2022
„Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“
 The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Dutch Ethnographic Days of Film, Amsterdam, NL

26 November 2022 (+Online throughout Greece 28 November - 4 December 2022)
„Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at Ethnofest - International Ethnographic Filmfestival in Athens, Greece

17 & 18 September 2022
„Political Ecologies of the Ancestral Present“
Christine Moderbacher participates in the workshop „Political Ecologies of the Ancestral Present“ in Carisolo, Italy

15 September 2022
“Crafting Essays on Life: Reflections on multimodal approaches and renditions of anthropological research”
Presentation by Christine Moderbacher within the context of the Online Seminar Series: Visual Essays/ Anthrovision Special Issue

20 July - 27 July 2022
Faito Doc Curation
Christine Moderbacher is part of the Faito Doc programming team for the 2022 edition. Faito, Italy

2 June - 2 July 2022 
„Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“  
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the group exposition "Drinnen-draussen" at KUNST:WERK, St.Pölten, Austria

20 & 21 May 2022
Christine Moderbacher participates in a the workshop "Business as usual?
Anthropology and the study of “unusual” subjects" - University of Vienna, Austria

28 July 2022
"What if the say things we don't like"? Visual reflections on uneasy relationships in the field"
Christine Moderbacher co-hosts the panel (together with Michael Karrer, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and Marcelo de Jesus) at the EASA Belfast - Transformation, Hope and the Commons.

23 March 2022
Curation and moderation of the film discussion Filmische Blicke auf Rechte und NS-Täter*innenschaft
Film discussion within the context of the Bildungswochen gegen Rassismus in Halle

6 July 2021
From the Making of Craft to Making of One’s Life: Stories from carpentry apprentices in Brussels.
Online presentation by Christine Moderbacher at the Workshop: The Social Life of Skills
School of Geography, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, 5th - 7th of July

24 March 2021
The political opponent in our lens - reflections on filmmaking and anthropology
Online Presentation by Christine Moderbacher at the Empirical art: Filmmaking for fieldwork in practice at the RAI conference and film festival

21 March 2021
Curation and moderation of the film discussion "Hinsehen. Zuhören. Einmischen? Filmische Blicke auf den Rechtspopulismus" in the frame of the Bildungswochen gegen Rassismus in Halle

17 December 2020
Christine Moderbacher is talking about the installation piece Moving Ants on a Painted Tree
Presentation at Online series "Art and Anthropology talk" organised by ANTART - The Anthropologies of the Arts network (EASA), online

Selected Expositions and Film Screenings

2022

01 December & 2 December 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Dutch Ethnographic Days of Film, Amsterdam, NL

02 June - 02 July 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the group exposition "Drinnen-draussen" at KUNST:WERK St.Pölten, AT

28 May 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Austria

13 May 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, Austria

02 - 09 May 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at Femina - International Women`s Film Festival, Brasil

22 April - 15 May 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the group exposition of nominated works of the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International at Basis e.V., Frankfurt, Germany

07 & 09 April 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film in Graz, Austria

02 April 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Vilnius International Film Festival Kino pavasaris, Forum Cinemas, Lituania

28 January to 5 February 2022
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the Clermont Ferrand – Short Film Market Pick, France

2021

09 December 2021
The short film „Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau“ by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the „This Human World - International Human Rights Filmfestival, Vienna

27 October 2021
Men at work
The documentary "Men at Work" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the MA seminar "Methods and ethics of anthropological research" at the Unit for Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, CH

15 April 2021
Men at work
The documentary "Men at Work" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the seminar "Anthropology of Infrastructure" at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, AT

Männer in Orange
The documentary "Männer in Orange" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the seminar "Anthropology of Infrastructure" at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, AT

19 - 28 March 2021
"The political opponent in our lens - reflections on filmmaking and anthropology"
Presentation and screening of work in progress by Christine Moderbacher
Conference: RAI Film Festival 2021

11 February 2021
Men at work
The documentary "Men at Work" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the seminar "Roads: Mobility, Movement, Migration" at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK

14 January 2021
Red Earth White Snow
The documentary "Red Earth White Snow" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at the seminar Ethnographischer Film und/als Theorie at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2020

December 2020
Red Earth White Snow
The documentary "Red Earth White Snow" by Christine Moderbacher is shown at a seminar at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University, Halle

3 - 8 August 2020
Moving Ants on a Painted Tree
Video screening by Christine Moderbacher at Faito Doc Festival, Faito, IT

21 July - 24 July
Moving Ants on a Painted Tree
The video installation piece Moving Ants on a Painted Tree co-created by Christine Moderbacher is shown at Field/Works. Kaleidoscopic Activities between Anthropology and Art. ANTART - Lisboa (Online)
Conference: EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe

2019
'Container' at the Group exposition 'Spuren', KUNST:WERK St.Pölten, AT

Video: 'Bewegungen von Ameisen auf einem bemalten Baum' at Transborders, Zollamt Bad Radkersburg, AT

Video 'Bewegungen von Ameisen auf einem bemalten Baum' at ORF Landesstudio Steiermark, Graz, AT

Exposition and Performance-Reading 'Container', Viertelfestival Lower Austria, Berg, AT

2018
Channel #1. Crossing to a Place we Love.
Audio-Video Installation at Porgy and Bess (together with Anna Steiden), Vienna, AT

2017
Crafting Lives Interplay 1.
Visual Essay, Group Exposition ‘The Unfinishing Of Things’, Knowing From The Inside (KFI), University of Aberdeen, UK

2015/2016
What is left of Mohamed’s Letters?
Video Installation, Group Exposition: ‘La Divina Commedia’, Niederösterreichischer Künstlerverein, St.Pölten, AT

Group Exposition ‘Right Here, Right Now’
at Newave-gallery, Aberdeen, UK

2015
Lettre à Mohamed.
Video Installation, Group Exposition: ‘Kulturpreisträger Niederösterreich 2015’, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, AT

2012
Co-curator of Emergencia MX.
Interactive exposition about Mexico’s drug war. Pianofabriek & Sireas, Brussels, BE

2011
Co-curator of TUNISIE, la Révolution et après. A Revolutionary Discourse Through Pictures, Film, Music, Theatre, Dance & Debate. Pianofabriek, Brussels, BE