AnthroLab by  El Takeiba for Art and Culture, in collaboration with EMB – Ethnographic Media Space Bern, Switzerland conducted  The first workshop for Ethnographic filmmaking in Egypt : From Family Archives to Visual Storytelling .

With Prof. Michaela Schäuble participants examined how personal images and intimate memories—filmed within families and/or among friends—can reveal wider social, cultural, and historical transformations.They  engaged with questions of memory, representation, and authorship, learning how private visual records become valuable anthropological documents.

Through screenings, discussions, and hands-on exercises, the workshop addressed how family archives can be read, preserved, re-edited, and re-contextualized to create new visual narratives that bridge personal experience and collective history.

By the end of workshop they were able to make short films/ visual or conceptual projects of 5-10 minute .

Trainer Short Bio:

Prof. Michaela Schäuble is a writer, director, and ethnographic filmmaker, and Professor of Visual Anthropology and Media at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is the Founding Co-Director of Ethnographic Media Space Bern (EMB).

Her practice explores memory, family and institutional archives, and post-conflict contexts, focusing on how personal materials can be transformed into visual narratives.

Her work includes award-winning ethnographic and experimental films and archival-based visual projects.