Visual Anthropology Center /VAC/

We want to contribute to the global consciousness of humanity by creating socially engaged ethnographic films, photographs, and other forms of audio-visual art. Visual Anthropology Center - VAC
In our age ever so overwhelming with visual data we find it crucially important for documentarists and social scientists to cooperate with visual artists, film and theater-makers in order for their work to be not only relevant but visually enticing as well. Documents can be art as pieces of art can be documents – yet visual anthropology in the digital age is one of the most underdeveloped social sciences and there’s barely any institutions or organizations that give it the key importance it should have. The BVAC is a creative hub and a database that aims to fill the aforementioned gap. Last years successful School of Visual Anthropology which was held in Belgrade, Serbia made us realize that we can and have to expand: the fact that there is no institution for VA on the Balkans may not be so surprising as the whole region has yet to develop such societies but Europe and the Globe don’t stand much better either. The hub that we imagined is unique: motion picture and photography, any kind of visual art shouldn’t just be a tool in the hand of the scientist; visual anthropology and film are to have a symbiotic relationship, documentaries and feature film can have an anthropologic approach and anthropology and social science in general can have an artistic approach – it is our belief that the much desired social change depends on such approach. We believe that the development of a global consciousness of humanity can only develop if there are international organizations that set the enforcing of such consciousness as their goal. The BVAC intends to be the first step on a long road that leads to a global network of similar hubs aiming to be a powerhouse of socially sensitive artistic and scientific work.