Festival’s context

Resting on Visual Anthropology; our festival space will platform work that disrupts the status quo, critiques “objective” truth, and reshapes how we experience and interpret the world.

Anthropology is the study of people; how we live and who we are. Engaging critically with hierarchical and often violent pre-existing systems of ‘factual’ representation and knowledge production, this festival is an invitation to both those who have a connection to this discipline and those who don't, to explore the kind of filmmaking and art that emphasises context and exploration as a way to decolonise and imagine an otherwise.

For us, Visual Anthropology is an anthropology of the sensory and a sensual exploration of the anthropological - a road less travelled than that of systematic, purely empiricist and textual methods; one which can nurture nuance and subjectivity.

Running this festival is for us an inherently political thing.

We reject the increasingly normalised imperialist, racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and ableist discourses and oppose the rhetoric of the growing far-right. By building this platform, we want to connect people who share our values and bring about real-life social change.

We are determined to prioritise work submitted by those who have not yet established themselves as artists - to reflect our grassroots ethos.

We want KONTEKST to serve as a piece of infrastructure that that can be used to amplify important messages from those who do not yet have established audiences. Our festival will be programmed to be a multi-sided conversation in-between the artists and the audience. Providing feedbacks will be an integral part of the event.