Golovnev, I. A. LEONID KAPITSA’S CINEETNOGRAPHY (“ON THE COAST AND ISLANDS OF BARENTS SEA” FILM) // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 6 (183). P. 100–106. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.378


Ethnology, anthropology and ethnography

LEONID KAPITSA’S CINEETNOGRAPHY (“ON THE COAST AND ISLANDS OF BARENTS SEA” FILM)

Golovnev
I. A. 		Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
ethnographic cinema
visual anthropology
Leonid Kapitsa
Nenets		 Summary: Visually-anthropological experiments in Russia have more than a century of history, reflected, in particular, in the corpus of Soviet ethnographic films of the 1920s–1930s. This article, based on textual and visual materials, is intended to introduce into the scientific circulation information about the ethnofilm “On the coast and islands of the Barents Sea” (1929) of one of the pioneers of ethnographic cinema, professional researcher L. L. Kapitsa as a multi-layered visual anthropological document. Analyzing archival data and published testimonies of contemporaries, the author of the article traces the evolution of L. L. Kapitsa in connection with parallel processes in the state national-cultural policy and ethnographic science. Due to the specifics of silent cinema, the final film “On the coast and islands of the Barents Sea” is a kind of cinema-text consisting of approximately the same number of motion pictures and text captions interspersed in the narration. That is why the method of analyzing a film as a visual-text work was its research transcript – presentation in the form of a film text. Based on the consideration of the film in the socio-historical context, the article draws conclusions about the phenomenon of ethnographic film as an effective form of research knowledge, which allows fixing the cultures of what is being filmed and shooting, and broadcast in time not only actual events, but also their so important for anthropological study emotional context; as well as the potential of cinema as an informative historical source.



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