GloDiv Film Documentary
GlobaldiverCities
A research project at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
by Dörte Ulka Engelkes
Length: 22 min.
Producer: MPI MMG 2015
Camera: Doerte Ulka Engelkes
Sound: Anna Seegers-Krueckeberg
Editing: Abbas Yousefpour
Location: Germany, Singapore, South Africa, USA
Synopsis: This film gives insight into the large, interdisciplinary, international and comparative research project ‘GlobaldiverCities’ conducted by Steven Vertovec between 2011 and 2015.
The GlobaldiverCities Film Trilogy
One of the unique modes of analysis and special outputs of the GLOBALDIVERCITIES project are a series of full-length ethnographic films made by Dörte U. Engelkes, filmmaker and anthropologist, and Anna Seegers-Krückeberg, doctoral student in social and cultural anthropology, both assisted by Abbas Yousefpour, editor. With material filmed in collaboration with the project teams and advisors in each of the three cities, these films will draw together and present in an influential and comparative way evidence and analyses of diversification and public space encounters in global urban contexts.
Do you like to see the full version of the GlobaldiverCities Trilogy?
Please contact:
Dörte U. Engelkes engelkes(at)mmg.mpg.de
Anna Seegers-Krueckeberg seegers(at)mmg.mpg.de
A Different Kind of Diversity
Astoria, New York City
by Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Length: 53 min
Producer: MPI MMG
Camera: Dörte U. Engelkes
Sound: Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Editing: Abbas Yousefpour
Location: New York/USA
Synopsis: Astoria (New York City) is known as one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the USA. Longstanding residents share their neighborhood with migrants from earlier migration waves and with newly arriving migrants from all over the world. This mix of people encounters each other on a daily base in public space. The documentary captures the atmosphere of this neighborhood and the feeling of living with diversity.
Everybody is from Anywhere
Hillbrow, Johannesburg
by Dörte U. Engelkes
Length: 59 min
Producer: MPI MMG
Camera: Dörte U. Engelkes
Sound: Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Editing: Abbas Yousefpour
Location: Johannesburg/South Africa
Synopsis: This film features a neighborhood of Johannesburg in South Africa. Hillbrow’s population changed after the Apartheid era from an almost exclusively white suburb to a dominantly black area. White South Africans and migrants from rural South Africa meet people from all over Africa who recently arrived to look for a better life. The documentary portrays different protagonists, their way of living and how they get along with friends and strangers in the streets and places of Hillbrow.
Mix, lah
Jurong West, Singapore
by Dörte U. Engelkes
Length: ca. 60 min
Producer: MPI MMG
Camera: Dörte U. Engelkes
Sound: Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Editing: Abbas Yousefpour
Location: Jurong West, Singapore
Synopsis: This film features the residential area of Jurong West at the edge of Singapore where many people from all over Asia live and meet. The focus is on living with diversity in public spaces: a small path between huge high rises, a food hawker as the central meeting point of the neighborhood and places around the homes of the protagonists. Mrs. Heng and her husband come every Sunday to the path to join a small flea market. Raj is spending the whole day roaming around the food hawker where he meets many friends and strangers. Ramdass who arrived in Singapore some years ago and chose to live in a neighboring dormitory for male working migrants and Ofelia who spends most of her time with her friends from the Philippines.