Deep in the French聽Pyrenees, Bieler School of Environment graduate, Anna Henry is delving into the blurred lines between reality and fiction, with a docufiction film likely on the horizon. The ambitious project aims to study the multicultural聽dynamics of a French village, thanks to the Moyse-Travelling Scholarship.
The scholarship has taken Henry to the University of聽Amsterdam, where they are pursuing a Social Science Research Masters. While projects are still evolving, the idea of an ethnographic docufiction film is a strong contender.
The festival鈥檚 theatrical聽performances, located in Coustouges, France gradually becomes part of the daily lives of the village鈥檚 90 residents, Henry explains. 鈥淚t is聽interesting to see over the weeks that people gradually embody theatrical聽performances.鈥�
Studying at the BSE has taught them to pay close attention to the realities of both people and surrounding environments.聽
聽鈥淔rom my environment courses, I learned and now believe that there is a real focus and relationship, both with humans and nonhumans, that really stuck with me for many years,鈥� Henry said.聽
鈥淚鈥檓 still working with this idea of how we can give back to the people we鈥檙e working with and to the land and nonhumans we鈥檙e cohabitating with.鈥�
Henry鈥檚 work amplifies聽lessons learned at 看片视频.聽
鈥淵ou can draw so many parallels between how we think of fiction and reality and how we think of us and the environment. If we think that the environment is everything but the humans, we can also think fiction is everything but reality.鈥澛�