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