to talk about censorship, publish about it, study its.details and effects,
unravel facts and organise conferences.
That is preclsely what the U C T
Conference on Censorship in South Africa has tried to do.
NOTE
1.

"Je permet que tu parles, mais j 'exige que tu te taises".
Hugo:

Napoleon le Petit (1852).

Victor

Conference on Censorship will be published in

Papers delivered at the
book form by David Phillip.
Druker who organised the proceedings.
Vyver, John Dugard, Nadine Gordimer, Barend van Niekerk, James Ferman,
Andre Brink, Sipho Sepamala, Mirium Tlali and many others.

The editors will be Jan F Beekman and Kalman G
Authors will include Johan D van der

Ethnographic Film Festival

tha~ the

film studies

School of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand
The first Ethnographic Film Festival to be held in South Africa will be held
at the above university. from 2ist-26th July, 1980.
Visual anthropo~ogy and
ethnographic film are becoming two of the most rapidly growing grow1ng
academic disciplines in the United States, and it is appropriate
School of Dramatic Art - the only University department in South Afr1ca
offering major courses in film studies - should host the festival.
South Africa is uniquely suited to be a centre for ethnographic
since it has a rich variety of preliterate cultures which must be recorded
filmically before they disappear.
Furthermore, there are many other con-
temporary cultures and sub-cultures which should be documented
visually.
Lastly, there is a wealth of visual material
in the form of photographs
and old films which must still be catalogued'and analysed.
All of this is
doubly important when one realizes that South Africa has one of the oldest
film histories - the Anglo-Boer War was the first war to be reported on
film and
African Mirror was the longest running newsreel in the world.
Speakers will include:
Jay.Ruby, Profes~or of Visual Anthropology at Temple University,
He 1S also the D1rector of the Centre for Ethnographic Film making at Sante
Fe, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian
Cent~e for South:rn ~olklore.
Professor Ruby is the editor of the Journal
o~ V,sual Commun1cat1ons and the author of many articles on Ethnography and
V1sual AnthropOlogy.
Gei Zantsinqer, independent film maker and Associate Professor at the
University ?f PennsYlvania, Temple University and Rhodes University.
laberated w1th Andrew Tracey on six films on the Art of the Mbira.
Peter Becker~ author.of Path of Blood and many other works on the History of
the Zulu ~at1on.
South Afr1can television.
Fion~ Barbo~r, Curator of the MacGregor Museum in Kimberley which houses the
Dugg1n-Cron1n collection of photographs.
Other speakers will include John van Zyl and Keyan Tomaselli.

Wr1ter and presenter of The Tribal Identity series for

Institute and the

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Philadelphia.

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