Pavel Borecký

Author: administrator

  • NAIFF

  • Containall

  • Frank Bold

  • Safarni

  • Sphere Festival

  • CPH:DOX

  • ethnocineca

  • Asymmetries

  • Czech Academy of Sciences

  • CTU

  • Wandel Lab

  • FF UK

  • FAMU

  • Environmental Studies of the Contemporary Middle East

  • Czech Countrymen

    A rich collective monograph that looks into a daily life of Czech compatriots 2009, CULS Prague “My first blood. Serious ethnographic fieldwork turned into a wild journey across the Balkans and a history of living ‘Czechness’.” Countrymen: Seeking for Czech Footprints in Eastern Europe What is the current situation of the Czech expatriate communities in…

  • Healing Rainforests

    work in progress

  • Anthropology of Resite

    A blog article on four warnings and thirteen principles for livable cities 2013, Respekt Blog “Back in the day, reSITE was a Prague trendsetter in urban development. Much has changed, yet many challenges persist.” Abstract The world-renowned experts in city-making came to Prague. Czech architects, designers, social scientists, developers, civic activists and politicians listened to…

  • Better Antropofest

    A blog article offers a public reflection of the Czech film festival 2014, Respekt Blog “I still feel apologetical for the tone I chose, but the points, tested by time, proved to be of critical significance.” Abstract The jubilee fifth year of the “international film festival with an anthropological theme” has ended. A lot can…

  • Dark Mountain Manifesto

    work in progress

  • Notes from Bristol

    A blog article on the importance of collaboratively created film festivals 2017, Respekt Blog “Sharing thoughts on my second visit to the influential British ethnographic film festival.” Abstract Opening the website of The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI), you quickly find out what this institution boasts about: its antiquity. In other…

  • In the Devil’s Garden

    work in progress

  • Beyond the Breakdown

    work in progress

  • A Proposition to Collaborate

    A multi-authored article to inspire experimentation with geopoetic forms of storytelling 2023, HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory “We plan to change Visual Anthropology and employ it in the fight for socio-environmental justice. It starts on ‘home turf’ with film practitioners and the academic community.” Publication Context This collective multimedia article is based on the “Disappearing…

  • Dear Antropofest

    A sharp commentary of the current state of Visual Anthropology in the Czech Republic 2021, Biograf Journal “After eleven years, the Czech festival of anthropology-inclined films is about to be terminated. I step in to support its mission.” Abstract The text is a reflection of the Czech anthropological film festival Antropofest, its role in the…

  • Sensory Ethnography

    A twin-article to the first academic reception of Sensory Ethnography Lab films in the Czech language 2019, Biograf Journal “Into the messy worlds. A love letter to the films that inspire my own approaches to cinematography and anthropology.” Abstract In the last decade, the audiovisual projects of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University received…

  • A Letter to Kosovo’s Water Warriors

    A Letter to Kosovo’s Water Warriors

    A blog article offers a public reflection of the Czech film festival 2021, Kosovo 2.0 “Material infrastructures are used for the reproduction of power.” Abstract work in progress

  • Renewal of Czech-German Border Landscape

    A trilingual book on changing the destiny of wounded landscape 2015, Plzeň 2015, o.p.s. “As a participation specialist, I witnessed how land art can generate focused energy and create a transition momentum.” Renewal of Czech-German Border Landscape Wiederbelebung der deutsch-tschechischen Grenzlandschaft  Obnova krajiny česko-německého pohraničí The trilingual book documents the international landscape architecture competition, which…

  • Tuning Solaris

    A peer-reviewed piece on the emerging theory of sensory ethnography and post-humanist cinema 2016, Visual Ethnography Journal “Solaris. Its light burns right through my eyes. A companion text to the film that does not mean anything but itself.” Abstract Building upon the audiovisual project on a Tallinn shopping mall, the article outlines the conceptual resources…

  • How Forests Think

    A book review on representational forms that go beyond language My Review’s Abstract Expanding the scholarship inspired by ontological and multispecies turn and contributing to the Anthropocene debate, “How Forests Think” epitomizes the urge for post-humanist responsibility and the need for new ecological reconfiguration. Table of Contents Original Abstract (2013) Can forests think? Do dogs…

  • Street Corner Society

    A book review on gaining influence and power in American Italian slum My Review’s Abstract The main aim of the author is to “ward off a chaotic nature” of Boston’s North End through the in-depth study of social groups and local institutions with decisive influence over individual social mobility. Table of Contents Original Abstract (1943)…