Biography
Roger Horn is an award-winning filmmaker who utilises Super 8mm, digital, found home movies, and YouTube videos in his ethnographic and experimental video works. Roger holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town where his written thesis, Memories, material culture, and methodology: Employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women was accompanied by several films. Additionally, he has lectured in visual anthropology, documentary production, film studies, and cinematography drawing upon his 20+ years of production experience and research across multiple disciplines for inspiration.
Influenced by theory and methodology from visual anthropology, documentary, and experimental film traditions, his experimental and unconventional ethnographic films have screened at multiple high profile film festivals including the 65th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and multiple screenings at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. In additional to his concentration on migration, Roger has spent over a decade researching and filming among transgender vineyard workers in the wine lands outside of Cape Town, South Africa culminating is multiple films. The first of these films, The Sisterhood (2010), was short-listed for the Basil Wright Prize at the 13th Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film in 2013 and was nominated and awarded at several additional film festivals worldwide.
Roger recently relocated from South Africa to Germany where he continues to research and document African migration.
Featured Panel Presentation (2019) | Observation vs. Immersion: Trends in Contemporary Visual Anthropology
