narius.kairys[at]vda.lt
Film and Media researcher
Research interests: film history, visual anthropology, film philosophy, representations of otherness in the moving-images, ethnographic turn in the contemporary art
Research projects
2022 – 2024 Ethnographic films of Mantas Kvedaravičius: from documentaries to sensory ethnography, a postdoctoral internship at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Doctoral Dissertation
Between ethnography and fiction: the films of Šarūnas Bartas and Aleksey Fedorchenko, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2022.
Book chapters
Kairys Narius, The Look at the Other: The Case of FEW OF US, Fokuse: moterys Lietuvos kine, eds. Lina Kaminskaitė, Natalija Arlauskaitė, Vilnius: Lapas, 2021, p. 272–297.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Narius Kairys, Anthropologist with a Movie Camera: Between the Moving Image and the Text, Logos, 109, 2021, p. 195–201, https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2021.91
Narius Kairys, ‘I went there to live’: A case-study of Šarūnas Bartas’s Tofalaria and Few of Us, Visual Studies, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2046498
Conference Papers
Narius Kairys, “I Went There to Live”: An Anthropological Way of Seeing, International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference, Saratoga Springs, USA, 2019.05.20 – 22.
Narius Kairys, From Ethnography to Fiction: The Case Studies of Tofalaria (1986) and Few of Us (1996), V Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019.09.19 – 20.
Narius Kairys, Fiction Film – the Future of Ethnographic Film?, Old Discipline, New Trajectories. Theories, methods and practices in anthropology, The Society of Anthropological Sciences and the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2022.06.16 – 18.
