Series Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Student Film
Director Janina Kriszio
Country/Production UK
Release 2008
Length 29 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Germany / Europe
Ethnic Group German
Collection GCVA, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
University School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
Order No RAI-200.3092
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Reading traditionally played an important role for German (self-)identification. In 2000 an international survey revealed that German pupils are lacking basic reading skills, giving rise to nation wide shock. Taking this national identity crisis as a starting point this films starts to explore the reading from an anthropological perspective. It ends up giving a tacit portrait of 3 characters observed through a pair of reading glasses.
