This talk explores Dr. Camilla Morelli's work on ethnographic animation, which are films that blend people’s lived experiences with fictional storytelling and imaginative scenarios.

Camilla has co-produced these animations with children and young people around the world, from urban Bristol to the Amazon rainforest, to explore how they imagine the future amidst radical challenges they face in the present, and to amplify young voices that remain unheard.

Camilla is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at The University of Bristol. She has been conducting ethnographic research with forest-dwelling children and young people for over 15 years, exploring how their imagination and desires for the futures drive large-scale processes of socioeconomic change and shape the future of their societies and natural environments. Her book, Children of the Rainforest, is published by Rutgers University Press and was awarded the ACYIG – American Anthropological Association 2024 Book Prize.

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