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Title The professional foreigner : Asen Balikci and visual ethnography / written and directed by Rolf Husmann ; produced by Manfred Kruger and Rolf Husmann
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009

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Description 1 online resource (63 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Summary Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci are shown and discussed the film takes us from Asen's youth in Istanbul to his career in Canada where he became famous for making the Netsilik Eskimo Series, to filming in Afghanistan and then turning to two other activities of his as a networker for the Commission on Visual Anthropology (CVA) and as a teacher of Summer Schools in Siberia and Bulgaria. His film work among the Bulgarian Pomak and his still ongoing work in Sikkim (India) conclude the film which is not only the portrait of a famous expert in Visual Ethnography, but also more generally touches upon vital issues of ethnographic filmmaking
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014)
Event Recorded in Sikkim, India, Istanbul Turkey and Canada in 2009
Notes This edition in English
Subject Balikci, Asen, 1929-2019 -- Biography
SUBJECT Balikci, Asen, 1929-2019 fast
Subject Anthropologists -- Biography
Visual anthropology -- Canada
Visual anthropology -- Afghanistan
Visual anthropology -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Visual anthropology -- Bulgaria
Visual anthropology -- Himalaya Mountains Region
Netsilik Inuit
Pomaks.
Bhotia (Tibetan people)
Ethnographic films.
Netsilik Inuit.
Anthropologists
Bhotia (Tibetan people)
Ethnographic films
Netsilik Inuit
Pomaks
Visual anthropology
Afghanistan
Bulgaria
Canada
Himalaya Mountains Region
Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Genre/Form documentary film.
Biographies
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Balikci, Asen, 1929-2019, interviewee (expression)
Krüger, Manfred, film producer.
Husmann, Rolf, film director, interviewer (expression), film producer, screenwriter.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), publisher.