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Nathaniel Hansen
This user was born in Oregon.
MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Film .
EC This user attends or attended Emerson College.
BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Studies .
AA This user has an Associate of Arts degree in Theater .
BYU-H
This user attends or attended
BYU Hawaiʻi.
ANTH
This user's favourite subject is Anthropology.
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One of this user's favourite subjects is Humanities.
This user enjoys film.
This user loves documentaries.
This user has an iPod.
This user runs Mac OS X.
This user uses WordPress.
This user lives in Nevada.
This user plays the guitar.
band This user plays in a band.
This user is of Danish ancestry.

Welcome to my userpage. If you want to leave me a message, please do so on my talk page. I've been an avid reader and sometime editor of wiki entries for the last couple of years. Having lived in Hawaii for a number of years, hearing the Hawaiian word wiki used within the context of user edited information made complete sense.

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[edit] Bio

I'm originally from Portland, Oregon, but have lived in various places in the US and abroad. I received a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies and an Associate of Arts in Theater from BYU Hawaii in 2001. After moving to Boston, I completed a Master of Arts in Documentary Film and Media Art from Emerson College. I love filmmaking, picture taking, song writing, and reading. I direct documentaries as I have time and as projects are presented to me. Currently I am the CCO for Granite Data Management and owner of a video production company in Las Vegas.

My academic interests are within the fields and subfields of Socio-cultural anthropology and include specific research interests in (i) visual anthropology and experimental ethnography, (ii) the Pacific Rim and East Asia, and (iii) cultural representation through artistic and expressive mediums (ie performance, art, film, folk arts). I have a keen interest in directing documentary and ethnographic films, as well as in exploring the boundaries of ethnography via these media.

[edit] Film/Video

Primarily I stick to shooting documentary/ethnographic films, but I would not be averse to shooting narrative fiction. Currently, I am preparing my first feature length documentary Into A Heart Of Darkness for distribution and the festival circuit.

  • Produced, directed, and edited Documentary film Into a Heart of Darkness
    January 2003-July 2004 - Recipient of Cecil and Helen Rose Ethics in Communications Award
  • Director of Photography for Sandra Luzzi’s (Code of Ethics) Independent film Nativity
    May 2003
  • Principal Director of Photography and Assistant Editor for short film unBound
    November 2002
  • Principal Director of Photography and Editor for documentary Abby’s House
    November 2002
  • Cameraman for documentary The Birthing of Iosepa by Daniel Skaff
    Fall 2001
  • Honorarium Grant from Metropolitan Museum in New York for ethnographic video shot of Kanak performances in New Caledonia Fall 2001

[edit] Writing

I've been writing professionally for several years, and have included links to articles that are still available online. While a graduate student in Boston, I was hired by Robin Liss, at (the then small) Camcorderinfo.com to write reviews on a variety of camcorders. While there I became the managing editor and helped establish a style guide and glossary.

For those articles that I am proud of but have not published, I've created an Unpublished section as well and listed it first as it's shorter. Most of these are papers written for various research projects in grad school and as an undergraduate.

[edit] Unpublished

  • Perspectives: Homelessness and the Media
    By exploring the emics and etics of the homeless population, the essay examines some of the potential ethical issues that arise from myth understandings as perpetuated by the media. To that end, the essay explores the way the current homelessness issue, as portrayed in the media, suffers from: 1) discrepancy in definition; 2) stereotyping and myth understanding; 3) miseducation.
    Media Ethics Essay: April 2003
  • Chris Carter, the media, and authorship: a close encounter with The X-Files
    By applying Raymond Williams’ cultural process model, in addition to the Auteur theory, this essay examines the media’s role in assigning authorship to an individual.
    Television Studies Essay: April 2003
  • Culture as ‘Clip Art’: Aotearoa’s New Media Maoritanga
    A semiotic analysis of Maori iconography and symbolism as displayed in the new media context of web sites in New Zealand.
    MA Summer Directed Study Thesis: September 2002
  • Social Drama and Performance: The Case of Kanaky
    After conducting ethnographic research in New Caledonia for 6 weeks, I analyzed the important role cultural dance performance plays in the redefining of a cohesive identity among tribally and linguistically diversified post colonial indigenous people.
    BA Final Research Thesis: December 2001

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