Siberia Through Siberian Eyes
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.12.1
name: label: Creator
content: Badger, Mark
place: label: Place
content: Asia, Central
label: Place
content: Siberia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Mark Badger in 1993.
creator: label: Creator
content: Badger, Mark
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Videocassettes (VHS) (51 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1993.12
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes (vhs)
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited video documents participation of 13 students from various Siberian locales in an ethnographic film seminar given by anthropologist Asen Balikci, from University of Montreal, and filmmaker Mark Badger, from Alaska, in the Siberian town of Kazim. The Khanty inhabitants of this town are attempting to re-establish their ethnic identity which was suppressed during the Soviet policy of centralization. This and issues involved in filming the student's own ethnic groups and their representation to a larger audience are discussed. Examples of the students' filmming projects are included.

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