Pierre Verger Award; Curatorship; Ethnographic Film.
Pierre Verger Award; Curatorship; Ethnographic Film.
This research examines the Pierre Verger Prize's curatorial practices regarding Ethnographic Films and how these gestures dialogue with anthropological issues, considering the cultural, social and political influences involved. Furthermore, the research sought to explore how curation can act as a field of mediation between different epistemes, ontologies and cosmologies, and how it can contribute to a more complex and multifaceted understanding of the human experience. By placing the award as a starting point, this research aims to go beyond its immediate borders, investigating the broad role of curation and its theoretical and practical implications. The study aims not only to describe existing practices, but also to challenge and problematize traditional approaches to curating, proposing new ways of thinking and practicing curating in the field of anthropology. In this sense, I analyze how issues of race, gender and territory appear in the films selected to compete for the PPV; I investigate the differences and similarities between the 2024 commission and the previous ones; and I examine the curators' criteria for choosing films