FILMING LAB
ANTROPOLOGÍA DEL CINE
FILMING LAB
FILMING LAB

Marian Del Moral

 

Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, Department of Social Anthropology and member of the Research Institute for Women's and Gender Studies (WGI), both at the University of Granada (Spain).

I am an anthropologist who studies the world of cinema and generates images within the field of research, always with a gendered, feminist and decolonial perspective. I have always had the intuition that filmmaking has a lot to do with anthropology, and that anthropology has a lot to offer in terms of artistic storytelling. So here I am, determined to build bridges and collaborations between two fields that should never have been considered separate. 

When I started my PhD in 2004, I ventured into the emerging sub-discipline of media anthropology. From then until 2016, I conducted practice-based research in various film productions and through various artistic and social creation projects with art schools, photography programmes and NGOs. This has taken me from working with filmmaker Iciar Bollain to conducting fieldwork and producing films and documentaries in Nepal (2010-12), Morocco (2016), South Africa (2014) and Japan (2017). 

I have also collaborated with film festivals such as the Tarifa African Film Festival (FCAT) in Cádiz, the Cines del Sur Festival and theInternational Festival of Young Filmmakers (FIJR), both in Granada.

In 2008, together with Professor Soledad Vieitez, I founded the research group AFRICAInEs - Research and Applied Studies on Development (SEJ-491). My interest was in understanding Afrocentricity and self-representation practices through the images of Afro-descendant populations in Spain, a line of research that I developed until 2024.

My current research explores the construction of cinematic narratives and stories through ethnographic processes and methodological hybridizations, on the one side, and the study of gender in Spanish cinema from an anthropological perspective, on the other. I am interested in unpacking and understanding the ethnographic practices in the filmmaking of directors such as Iciar Bollain, Carla Simón, Eva Valiño, Eva Leira, Yolanda Serrano, Meritxell Colell, Rocío Mesa, Laia Colet, Ana Pfaff, among many others.

I am the founder of the Gender Media Lab (UGR), an interdisciplinary space whose main aim and concern is to bring together research and professionalization by applying gender equity to audiovisual and film production. Since 2021, I have also been directing the Filming Lab, a film laboratory that promotes and encourages exchanges between filmmakers, researchers and citizens. 

Throughout 2024, as a film anthropologist at the University of Granada, I was part of the working group for the Goya Awards, which were held in the city on 8 February 2025.

FILMING LAB

Marian Del Moral

 

Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher, Department of Social Anthropology and member of the Research Institute for Women's and Gender Studies (WGI), both at the University of Granada (Spain).

I am an anthropologist who studies the world of cinema and generates images within the field of research, always with a gendered, feminist and decolonial perspective. I have always had the intuition that filmmaking has a lot to do with anthropology, and that anthropology has a lot to offer in terms of artistic storytelling. So here I am, determined to build bridges and collaborations between two fields that should never have been considered separate. 

When I started my PhD in 2004, I ventured into the emerging sub-discipline of media anthropology. From then until 2016, I conducted practice-based research in various film productions and through various artistic and social creation projects with art schools, photography programmes and NGOs. This has taken me from working with filmmaker Iciar Bollain to conducting fieldwork and producing films and documentaries in Nepal (2010-12), Morocco (2016), South Africa (2014) and Japan (2017). 

I have also collaborated with film festivals such as the Tarifa African Film Festival (FCAT) in Cádiz, the Cines del Sur Festival and theInternational Festival of Young Filmmakers (FIJR), both in Granada.

In 2008, together with Professor Soledad Vieitez, I founded the research group AFRICAInEs - Research and Applied Studies on Development (SEJ-491). My interest was in understanding Afrocentricity and self-representation practices through the images of Afro-descendant populations in Spain, a line of research that I developed until 2024.

My current research explores the construction of cinematic narratives and stories through ethnographic processes and methodological hybridizations, on the one side, and the study of gender in Spanish cinema from an anthropological perspective, on the other. I am interested in unpacking and understanding the ethnographic practices in the filmmaking of directors such as Iciar Bollain, Carla Simón, Eva Valiño, Eva Leira, Yolanda Serrano, Meritxell Colell, Rocío Mesa, Laia Colet, Ana Pfaff, among many others.

I am the founder of the Gender Media Lab (UGR), an interdisciplinary space whose main aim and concern is to bring together research and professionalization by applying gender equity to audiovisual and film production. Since 2021, I have also been directing the Filming Lab, a film laboratory that promotes and encourages exchanges between filmmakers, researchers and citizens. 

Throughout 2024, as a film anthropologist at the University of Granada, I was part of the working group for the Goya Awards, which were held in the city on 8 February 2025.