{"id":3021,"date":"2024-11-11T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2024-11-11T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:53:20","slug":"december-5th-and-6th-kathryn-rameys-screening-masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/2024\/11\/11\/december-5th-and-6th-kathryn-rameys-screening-masterclass\/","title":{"rendered":"December 5th and 6th &#8211; Kathryn Ramey&#8217;s Screening &amp; Masterclass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Filmmaker and anthropologist&nbsp;Kathryn Ramey will visit CAMS for a screening of her latest documentary, \u201cEL SIGNO VAC\u00cdO\u201d, on Thursday, December 5th, followed by a masterclass on Experimental Filmmaking at the JHU-MICA Film Center on Friday 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;EL SIGNO VAC\u00cdO&#8221; (The Empty Sign) is a feature-length anthropological journey through the United States\u2019 occupation of Puerto Rico. Mixing over a <strong>hundred years of found footage<\/strong> \u2013 tourism, agricultural and propaganda films \u2013 with contemporary portraits of local artists and activists and Puerto Rican punk rock\/noise music, the film reveals how carefully crafted American fictions of \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201cdebt\u201d obscure a <strong>capitalist and military domination<\/strong> that is ongoing. Moving between old and new; Spanish and English; between paradise and environmental destruction, &#8220;EL SIGNO VAC\u00cdO&#8221; becomes a \u201cre-educational\u201d film challenging the viewer to re-think about <strong>modern colonization<\/strong>, its mechanism and responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EL SIGNO VAC\u00cdO (the empty sign), 2023 - trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/334323263?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Trailer for &#8220;EL SIGNO VAC\u00cdO&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;EL SIGNO VAC\u00cdO&#8221; won the Agantro Award for Anthropological Excellence at the MICE 19th International Ethnographic Film Festival, Galicia, Spain. The jury, composed by Iria V\u00e1zquez Silva, V\u00edctor Villar Caama\u00f1o, and I\u00f1igo S\u00e1nchez-Fuarros, members of the Galician Anthropology Association, highlighted the \u201cexcellent composition and editing job\u201d, and the director \u201ccreated a real style guide for field work in ethnographic description\u201d with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:36% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/RAMEY_12_directors_photo_sm-1-896x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Kathryn Ramey\" class=\"wp-image-3024 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/RAMEY_12_directors_photo_sm-1-896x1024-1.jpeg 896w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/RAMEY_12_directors_photo_sm-1-896x1024-1-263x300.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/RAMEY_12_directors_photo_sm-1-896x1024-1-768x878.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid including hand-processing, optical printing, and various direct animation techniques. Most recently she has been focused on creating an anti-colonial film practice with collaborators in Puerto Rico and researching environmentally friendly photochemical processes utilizing indigenous flora. She is deeply committed to sharing her knowledge of alternative analogue technologies through workshops and publications and is the author of the book Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (focal press 2016). Her work has been international screened and awarded and she is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellow and Creative Capital awardee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-693x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ramey Poster\" class=\"wp-image-3042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-1387x2048.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/11\/Ramey-Poster_page-0001-3-scaled.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Ramey&#8217;s films challenge the viewer to re-think about modern colonization, its mechanism and responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/cams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}