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Student: Darya Gnatchenko

Supervisor: Shota Gamisoniya

Educational Programme: Contemporary Art (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2024

The aim of the project was to analyze the history of ethnodocumentary and to search for problematic aspects of this genre in order to identify colonial film traditions and to understand how to deal with them. The aim of the study was to investigate why different frame sizes are used in ethnodocumentaries and to analyze comparatively films from the 20th and 21st century. The research revealed what political charges were carried by the general, medium and close-up and how they have changed their meaning today.

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