We are pleased to have as our guests David and Judith MacDougall, two of the most gifted and celebrated ethnographic filmmakers in the world. The MacDougalls's best-known films are those they made among the Jie and Turkana, pastoral peoples of Uganda and Kenya. David MacDougall is a Regents Lecturer in the Department of Visual Anthropology, UC Berkeley. Preceded by short: Under the Men's Tree (David and Judith MacDougall, 1968/1974). At Jie cattle camps in northeastern Uganda men gather under a special tree to work, talk, and sleep. The conversation on this particular afternoon is a kind of reverse ethnography concerning the European's most noticeable possession, the car, and the relative worth of cars and men. (15 mins, In Jie with English subtitles, B&W, 16mm, From EMC) Photo Wallahs is "a catalog of professional photography as it is practiced in Mussoorie, a north Indian tourist town in the foothills of the Himalayas....Mussoorie's photo studios...are littered with lifesize cut-outs of gods, movie stars, and national leaders....One (photo wallah) specializes in portraits of marriageable women (we watch him position a subject beside her TV, lend another his watch). Others cater to the tourist trade....Because this is India, land of 800 annual features, the typical portrait is a frozen movie....Because Photo Wallahs is a MacDougall production...nothing is explained-although, as always, there's considerable discussion and theorizing among the subjects ('photography is a way of awakening inner feelings...'). Detached and elegant, Photo Wallahs can be read as ethno-autocritique, experienced as a meditation on mechanical reproduction, or enjoyed as an eccentric travelog of the world's most photogenic subcontinent." -J. Hoberman, Village Voice