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Anne Chahine

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On 08.November 2022 I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Anthropology Department at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. The summary can be found in English and Kalaallisut down below. For a copy of the thesis frame or the articles, please contact me directly: mail@annechahine In search of decolonial ways: […]

Publication Research

PhD Thesis Defence “In search of decolonial ways: Multimodal and …

Published November 8, 2022

While preparing my PhD thesis defence in November this year, I was again and again faced with the conundrum of how to properly say thanks and pay respect to the people that have, in one way or the other, accompanied me on this PhD journey. As this is simply not […]

Film Research Visual Essays

Pre-Defence Intervention: Giving Thanks

Published November 7, 2022

I am happy to share that my article Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices was just published in the journal Qualitative Research. I am still working on making this open access, so, please contact me if you are interested in a copy. I would like to […]

Publication Research

Journal Article: Future memory work—unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research …

Published September 29, 2022

Here you can find the press release about last weeks writing workshop in Áltá/Alta, Sápmi/Norway at the Alta campus of the Arctic University of Norway, or download a PDF version here. I am very excited to be part of this initiative as part of my new role as research associate […]

Research

Writing Workshop at UiT: Decolonising EU research programs

Published September 13, 2022

After 3,5 exciting years, the POEM project (Participatory Memory Practices) came to an end, and all the PhD fellows (me being one of them) got to present an element of their work as part of the POEM closing conference Futures of Participatory Memory Work. I chose to stick with one […]

Research

Future Memory Work – Presentation at POEM Closing Conference

Published March 19, 2022

The Digital Archive of Forgotten Memories (DAFM) was originally initiated by my lovely POEM colleague Inge Zwart and me, to propose a new format to communicate central themes of the POEM research project. The DAFM is envisioned as a participatory space to talk about the process of forgetting, where we would ask […]

Publication Research

POEM Toolbox Contribution: The Digital Archive of Forgotten Memories

Published March 8, 2022

I am delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the editorial board of the journal entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, following an invitation by its amazing editors Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis. I look forward to contributing to this experimental, open-access journal, focused on multimodal ethnographic theory and practice.

Publication Research

Joining the ‘entanglements’ Editorial Board

Published November 2, 2021

I am happy to announce that we received the Best Poster/Demo Award at the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies 2021 (Seattle and Online) for the presentation Pluriversal Design: A Virtual Decolonising Exhibition. As part of this collaboration, Laura Lennert Jensen, Vivi Vold and myself developed the exhibition space […]

Exhibition Fellowships and Awards Research

Best Poster/Demo Award C&T2021

Published July 21, 2021

The exhibition was developed by Laura Lennert Jensen, Anne Chahine and Vivi Vold, as part of the virtual reality collaboration Pluriversal Design (Pluriversal Design 2021)[2]. The collaboration brought together projects based in Namibia, Mexico, Australia, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Ecuador, Borneo, and Ghana, to investigate how to bring decolonial discourses into […]

Exhibition Research

Decolonial Movements in Greenland

Published July 21, 2021

I am excited to have my short documentary “Memory Is Not About the Past”, developed as part of my MA dissertation at the Free University Berlin in 2016, published at JAF in their current issue. The Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) publishes original, empirically-based contributions that present new insights to […]

Film Publication Research

Journal Article: “Memory Is Not About the Past”

Published April 23, 2021

Me and my fellow editors at NAFA Network, the quarterly newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association, are proud to announce that we are finally online. Starting with this edition, all future newsletters and their content will be published at nafanetwork.org – our new home. My personal favorite: The VA […]

Publication

NAFA (Nordic Anthropological Film Association) Network goes online

Published April 15, 2021

Chapter contribution to the book “What’s Missing?: Collecting and Exhibiting Europe” in collaboration with my lovely POEM colleagues Susanne Boersma, Franziska Mucha, and Inge Zwart. The concept of the book was developed by the Museum of European Cultures Berlin and our chapter “The Archive of Forgotten Memories – A Participatory […]

Publication Research

Book chapter: “The Archive of Forgotten Memories – A Participatory …

Published February 1, 2021

One of my photos taken during fieldwork in Nuuk, Greenland in 2019 has been chosen to be featured in the 2021 calendar of the American Anthropological Association.

Photography

Photo Competition 2021 AAA Calendar

Published December 22, 2020

With the support of the American Society of Visual Anthropology/Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, I was able to execute a temporary photo exhibition at the Greenland National Museum in Nuuk that translates this online collection into a temporary real-life setting. The exhibition was launched on 25 October 2019 and was open […]

Exhibition Photography Research

Temporary Exhibition at the Greenland National Museum in Nuuk

Published January 24, 2020

During my course Introduction to Visual Forms of Inquiry at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, I was fortunate to welcome interdisciplinary researcher, writer, filmmaker, and artist (and dear friend) Melody Howse (University of Leipzig) for an online lecture on Sensory and Visual Ethnography in Practice. Melody introduced and reflected on her […]

Research Teaching

Welcoming Melody Howse in Nuuk

Published November 17, 2019

The Future Memory Collection is part of my Ph.D. dissertation Future memory making: Co-creating (post-)colonial imaginations with Greenlandic youth in Greenland and Denmark and connected to the Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network ‘POEM’ (Participatory Memory Practices). The study is scheduled to be executed over a total time span of three […]

Exhibition Research

The Future Memory Collection – An Online Archive and Virtual …

Published August 29, 2019

My proposal “The Future Memory Collection: An Online Archive and Real-Life Exhibition Space” has been recommended for funding by the Society for Visual Anthropology review committee and received the SVA Robert Lemelson Fellowship 2019-2020. I am grateful for the SVA’s interest in my work and support. As part of the […]

Exhibition Fellowships and Awards

SVA/Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellow 2019-2020

Published May 1, 2019

Anthropology News was looking for critical anthropological perspectives on and around love and invited me to write a short piece about my short documentary Looking for Mr. Right Now from 2015. The article was published as part of the thematic series on “Love” in the Jan/Feb 2019 print and online […]

Film Publication Research

Photo Essay about the Sensory Experience of Online Dating

Published January 30, 2019

As a filmmaker, I really enjoyed screening my short documentaries at the NAFA (Nordic Anthropological Film Associaton) International Ethnographic Film Festival. Here I was given the chance to not only engage with a diverse film selection but also get to know a warm and welcoming crowd of people. Starting this […]

Publication

Joining the NAFA Network Editorial Board

Published December 23, 2018

I am excited to start my Ph.D. in the Anthropology Department at Aarhus University in Denmark. I will be working on the project “Future memory making: Co-creating (post-)colonial imaginations with youth from Greenland and Denmark” under the supervision of Professor Ton Otto. The fellowship is part of the innovative European […]

Research

PhD Project – Participatory Memory Practices

Published October 1, 2018

In fall 2018, I start an exciting fellowship at the H2020 project POEM – Concepts, strategies, and media infrastructures for envisioning socially inclusive potential futures of European Societies through culture. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant […]

Fellowships and Awards Research

Research Fellow at POEM – H2020 Project – Marie Skłodowska-Curie …

Published October 1, 2018

Article about an inspiring platform called The Creative Memory – a web-based project that “aims to archive all the intellectual and artistic expressions” of the Syrian revolution. I want to sincerely thank Sana Yazigi, founder of  The Creative Memory for agreeing to this interview and sharing her insights and stories […]

Publication

The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution

Published August 9, 2017

Videoarticle about my shortfilm Power of the Past. A history of an East German family (3min45s | 2015 | Germany), published by the online platform zeitgeschichte-online. Link to article The collaborative platform „zeitgeschichte-online“, a project by the Centre for Contemporary History (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, ZZF) and the Berlin State Library […]

Film Publication

Zeitgeschichte Online [Contemporary History Portal]

Published April 8, 2017

Annual visit of the former open cast mining pit Cottbus-Nord in the south of the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany. The area is part of a renaturation process and will be flooded starting 2018, turning the former mining pit with its 1,900 hectare into the largest lake in the Lusatia […]

Visual Essays

Der Cottbuser Ostsee – Beautiful Lake Coming Soon

Published March 5, 2017

Publication of my short documentary “Looking for Mr. Right Now” in the second volume of the Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology with the title: Augmented Lives: Experiences in Mobility, Big Data, and Robotics. This peer-peer reviewed open-access journal continues to presents new research, written works, and short films that explore […]

Film Publication

Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology

Published January 11, 2017

The video installation Memory is Not About the Past aims to understand how former East Germany is remembered today in accordance with the general national historic discourse. The installation focuses on members of the Third Generation East, meaning individuals born in the GDR between 1975 and 1985, who experienced the […]

Exhibition Research

Graduate Exhibition – MA Visual and Media Anthropology

Published November 1, 2016

Winner of the German Musical Theater Award 2016 in the categorie Stage Design “Der Tunnel“. Stage Design and Video: Marc Jungreithmeier. Video: Marc Jungreitmeier & Anne Chahine (née Sehlz). Awarded by the German Musical Academy.

Fellowships and Awards Video Stage Design

German Musical Theater Award 2016

Published October 11, 2016

Geschichten von Menschen aus der ehemaligen DDR. Für die Welt. Stories from the people of former East Germany. For the world. Follow us on Facebook Im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit beschäftige ich mich mit dem Thema ‘Wendekinder’. Der Generation also, die einen Teil ihrer Kindheit noch in der ehemaligen DDR verbracht […]

Research

Ost-Geschichten [Stories from the East]

Published September 18, 2016

Article on the exhibition Lee Miller – Photographs at the Martin Gropius Bau Berlin for the online platform Visual History which is part of the Centre for Contemprary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. Link to Article

Publication

Visual History – Article on “Lee Miller Photographs”

Published May 2, 2016

Article on the exhibition Der Dritte Blick – Fotografische Positionen einer Umbruchsgeneration (The third angle – photographic standpoints of a generation in transition) at the city gallery Kiel for the online platform Visual History which is part of the Centre for Contemprary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. Link to article

Publication

Visual History – Article on “Der Dritte Blick (The Third …

Published April 11, 2016

Documenting the Uefa Champions League 2015/16 from another angle. All photos were originally taken via Instagram.

Photography

#It’s all about soccer. #Not.

Published March 2, 2016

My short documentary Looking for Mr. Right Now has been awarded Best Short Documentary January 2016 by the Around Films International Film Festival.

Fellowships and Awards Film

Best Short Documentary

Published January 27, 2016

In December 2015, I was awarded a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Germany’s largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation. With their support, I was able to successfully finish my MA studies at the Free University of Berlin, focusing on Visual and Media Anthropology.

Fellowships and Awards

Receipt of a Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Published January 1, 2016
Photography

NY City Encounters

Published December 16, 2015

The short documentary “Looking for Mr. Right Now”  is an attempt to understand the current phenomenon of virtual dating in form of mobile dating-apps such as Tinder. Communication through digital means has become part of people’s everyday life, may it be at the work place or while talking to friends […]

Film

Looking for Mr. Right Now

Published December 15, 2015

The Funkhaus Nalepastrasse was built from 1953 to 1956 by Bauhaus architect Franz Ehrlich. Originally, the Funkhaus was East Germany’s central radio station; it holds the largest studio complex in the world. The numerous recording spaces range from the 1000m2 concert hall, which can host a symphony orchestra, all the […]

Photography

Funkhaus Berlin

Published December 15, 2015

In her twenties Anne Chahine had the chance to travel the world depending on where freelance work in the event industry would take her. The most loyal companion during that time was her camera, which helped her remember those trips as something more than sheer work. “Roaming the Cities” is […]

Photography Publication

Roaming the Cities

Published December 15, 2015

Project Module Space and Place Lecturer Mike Terry and Christian Reichel Master of Arts Visual and Media Anthropology Freie Universität Berlin Inspired by Dr. Andrew Irving’s New York Stories – The Lives of Other Citizens Dr. Andrew Irving is Programme Director at the Granada Centre of Visual Anthropology at the […]

Research

Walking

Published November 15, 2015

Video mapping and content development for the musical production ‘Der Tunnel’ in collaboration with stage designer Marc Jungreithmeier. Premiere in October 2015 at the Stadttheater Fürth.

Video Stage Design

Der Tunnel

Published October 15, 2015

‘Dahlem Beauty’ is a short film realized by Anne Chanine, Ana Catalá and Luisa Orduño which portrays a conversation with the stage designer Dominic Huber and his installation ‘Enchantment / Beauty Parlour’ in Berlin’s Ethnological Museum and developed for ‘Probebühne 6’ by Humboldt Lab Dahlem. ‘Enchantment / Beauty Parlour’ is […]

Film

Dahlem Beauty

Published October 15, 2015

Part of the Poetic Framing Workshop @ Freie Universität Berlin Lecturer: Kristian Peters Music: F.T.G. (Jamendo.com) Lyrics inspired by “La Forza del Passato” by Pasolini Mastering by Khalil Chahine © Anne Chahine Mai 2015

Film

Power of the Past

Published May 15, 2015

Transcultural Filmworkshop Freie Universität Berlin Master of Arts | Visual and Media Anthropology Berlin, April 2015 Camera and Sound: Anne Chahine, Ji-Liang Lin Edit: Anne Chahine Project Supervisor: Eva Knopf, Mark Dölling, Grzegorz Muskala Music: Plugs | Rock’n Roll Zombie | Jamendo.com

Visual Essays

Kurt

Published May 15, 2015

My short documentary Beirut in two Words has been nominated for the Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award 2015: Young talents – Big cinema! With the ESSA, ethnocineca gives due attention to the multifaceted inspiration of young documentary filmmaking. The award not only presents an international platform for young filmmakers of documentary filmmaking, […]

Fellowships and Awards Film

Nomination ESSA – Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award

Published May 8, 2015

The new piece by the Cologne choreographer Silke Zimmermann is a co-operation with author and director André Zimmermann, dancer and video designer António Cabrita and media and stage designer Anne Chahine. Within the frame of TEMPS D`IMAGES invites to a preview. . “LAUF (in a courseof a lifetime)“ describes the […]

Video Stage Design

LAUF – In the Course of a Life Time

Published January 15, 2015

Catching different areas in Brandenburg from above.

Visual Essays

Aerial

Published December 15, 2014

Stop Watching! is a versatile, frivolous, political incorrect and beyond all measure playful and venturesome dance and image experience, dealing with people’s growing habit to stop experiencing life by oneself, trying out new things or running a risk every now and then.

Video Stage Design

Stop Watching!

Published December 15, 2014

The short documentary Beirut in two words has been nominated for the ‘Köln Design Preis 2014’. The exhibition of the nominated projects took place in the MAKK Cologne.

Exhibition Fellowships and Awards Film Research

Nomination Kölner Design Preis 2014

Published June 14, 2014

The University of Applied Science Cologne has honored my final project Beirut in Two Words: Development and Production of a Documentary Film as Best Undergraduate Thesis in 2013/14.

Fellowships and Awards Film

Best Undergraduate Thesis

Published February 27, 2014

The short documentary Beirut in two words aims to give one of the most diverse cities of the Middle East a voice of its own.Nine members of Beirut‘s music and art scene share their thoughts on living and working in a city where at times beauty and suspense go hand […]

Film Research

Beirut in two Words

Published January 15, 2014

Eine Projektarbeit im Rahmen des Mediendesignstudiums an der Rheinischen Fachhochschule Köln Wintersemester 2011/12 Fach AV-Produktion Dozent Carsten Jezewski Produktionsteam: Alexander Baatout | Anne Chahine | Jette Britzwein | Justyna Kempka | Stephanie Böhme Band 5vor12: Sven Caßebaum | Tobias Meißner | Michael Lösch | Edin Colic Schauspieler: Stephanie Voit | […]

Visual Essays

5vor12 Song ‘Fotos’

Published August 15, 2013

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