Scott MacDonald signs copies of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn following the screening

Over the past fifty years, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has nurtured two genres of documentary: personal documentary and ethnographic film. Several of the pioneers of ethnographic film-Lorna and John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch-made crucial contributions to the genre in Cambridge; and in more recent years the Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2002, has become an important studio for the production of films that provide sensory experiences of people-in-place. Tonight's program features three of the SEL's veterans, plus a recent film by Alfred Guzzetti, whose filmmaking and teaching has invigorated the Cambridge scene for more than forty years.