Taylor’s film works, all co-directed with Ilisa Barbash, include Made in U.S.A. (1990), a film about sweatshops and child labor in the Los Angeles garment industry, and In and Out of Africa (1992), a video about authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the transnational African art market. In and Out of Africa has been the subject of symposia at the Smithsonian Institution and the British Museum, London, and received awards from the Chicago International Film Festival, the American Film Festival, the National Educational Film Festival, the Big Muddy Film Festival, the Gottingen International Film Festival, as well as from the American Anthropological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Global Africa Award. Taylor and Barbash are currently in post-production on Big Timber, a feature-length film about the culture of sheepherders in Montana.
Taylor’s publications include Visualizing Theory (ed., 1994), Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (with Ilisa Barbash, 1997), and Transcultural Cinema & Other Essays by David MacDougall (ed., 1998). He was also the founding editor (1991-1994) of Visual Anthropology Review, a journal of the American Anthropological Association. Taylor joined the Film Study Center and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard in 2002, and the Anthropology Department in 2005.
Other participants
Liesbeth Bik, Bryony Bond, Mary Bouquet, David Chapman, Anna Grimshaw, Ade Hunter, Rosalind Nashashibi, Daniel Peltz, Amanda Ravetz, Paul Rooney, Erika Tan, Jos van der Pol, Soumhya Venkatesan, Chris Wright and Lesley Young
Go to Lucien Taylor’s object presented on Day One
