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I am an anthropologist, filmmaker, and curator who explores the politics and poetics of everyday life. The questions animating my work include: How do people create a world for themselves after violent conflicts and environmental destruction? What stories do they tell?
M.C. (Martha) Dietrich PhD. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Exploring Diversity. Area of expertise: Visual Anthropology and Empirical Art, Social and environmental justice, Post-conflict memory, Indigenous rights and media. Visiting address.
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Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2024 forthcoming) “Becoming community. Filmmakers crafting futures in an Andean town.” In: ‘Telling the future: Future-making and speculative fiction in ethnographic film and creative practice’ by Anna-Lisa Ramella, Johannes Sjöberg, Igor Karim and Steffen Köhn (eds). Anthrovision. Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2023) “Our Cine...
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2020) “Horror in the Andes: Ayacuchean Cinema In-the-making.” Journal of Anthropological Films, 4 (02). → VIEW HERE Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2018) “Between Memories. A collaborative journey into the experience of memory in post-war Peru.” Journal of Anthropological Films, Vol. 2 (2), e1559. → VIEW HERE Dietrich, Martha-Ce...
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2022) “Creatividad y perseverancia en un context precario. El cine ayacuchano: entre la realidad y la vision artistica” In: Cine peruano de inicios del siglo XXI by Cynthia Vich and Sarah Barrow (eds.). Universidad de Lima Press, pp. 105-124.pp. 85-102. → READ HERE Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2020) “Creative Precarity. Filmm...
Dietrich Ortega, Martha-Cecilia. (2010) Indigene Repräsentation im neuen venezolanischen Fernsehen. Saarbrücken: VDM. → READ HERE
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2019) Confinement, Surveillance and Resistance. Anthroblog. University of Bern. 15. January. → READ HERE Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2015) “When Truth Goes to Court: the shifting role of testimonies in post-conflict Peru.” Open Security Projects. 29 April. → READ HERE Dietrich, Martha and Penny Harvey (2014) “Activist Object...
Production and Curation for the photographic exhibition “From muted places: Objects of resistance” commissioned by Soho in OttakringArt Festival, Vienna. June 2020. → READ HERE
Jun 5, 2024 · Martha-Cecilia Dietrich| Peru and UK| 2015| 34 min| Spanish/Quechua with English Subtitles The film Between Memories explores the complex legacies of twenty years of violence and war in Peru through the ways people choose to remember it.
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia (2023 forthcoming) “Narrating truth & doing justice: Imagining (alternative) futures in contemporary Andean Cinema.” In: ‘Telling the future: Future-making and speculative fiction in ethnographic film and creative practice’ by Anna-Lisa Ramella, Johannes Sjöberg, Igor Karim and Steffen Köhn (eds).
martha-cecilia dietrich, University of Amsterdam: 146 Followers, 29 Following, 27 Research papers. Research interests: Peace and Conflict Studies, Visual…
Taught course. Indigenous Media: Self-representation, identity politics and cultural activism. Practical courses. Filmmaking for Fieldwork - online essentials. anthropologist, filmmaker, curator.
