The Moso Media Project grew out of a collaboration between Onci Archei and Ruheng Duoji, the directors of the Moso Folk Museum in Luoshui Village (Yunnan, China) and Tami Blumenfield, a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department of the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). It grew out of our shared interests in filmmaking in regions where Moso live. Together, we examined filmmaking practices and media creation in the Moso tourist zones around Lugu Lake.

The Moso Media Project has three components:

1. The Moso Film Festival: a showcase and discussion forum of films created about Moso people.

2. Participatory Media Production: a series of workshops on digital photography and video production and editing, and collaboration on documentary film projects.

3. Ethnographies of Moso Media: an examination of interactions between Moso and outside mediators.

Through this project, we look at how Moso people shape their own images and respond to their role in the cultural spotlight.

To see what inspired the Moso Media Project, look at these scenes from a Lige cafe, in 2004.  

About the collaborators:

Archei and Duoji continue to film and edit digital videos created through the project.

Tami is writing her doctoral dissertation about the Moso Media Project, "Scenes From Yongning: Media Creation in China's Na Villages."

Media coverage of the Moso Media Project:

CinemaTalk Conversation with Tami Blumenfield on the dGenerate Films website