Rina Sherman

Rina Sherman is a filmmaker, and photographer. She studied visual anthropography with Jean Rouch, under whose supervision she completed a doctorate with distinction at the Sorbonne in 1989.
A recipient of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs prize and the Lavoisier bursary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she undertook a seven-year fieldwork study of Ovahimba and other Otjiherero speaking communities in Namibia and Angola.
From the body of filmed and photographic images and sound recordings that she constituted during that time, she has produced films, books, multimedia exhibitions and photographic collections.
Her archival collection resides with the National Library of France, who dedicated an exhibition, “The Ovahimba Years / Rina Sherman” to the collection in 2015.

Rina Sherman’s films cover a range of interests, from her collection of cine-portraits,"Voices, Meetings with Remarkable People", including among others, Jacques Blamont, Michel Zink, Bernard Esambert, Andres Serrano, J. P. Donleavy, Rhoda Scott, Alain Gheerbrant, François Roustang, to her collection, "Witnesses of our Times", with works in progress about Jean Rouch, Claude Mollard, Michou, Delfeil de Ton, Jean Widmer… to her work on dance in Africa, her e...

Ph. D. Université de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 - Paris X - Ecole de Nanterre, supervised by Jean Rouch,

Les années Ovahimba / Rina Sherman
Multimedia Exhibition at the National Library of France François Mitterrand, 2015
http://www.bnf.fr/en/cultural_events/anx_exhibitions/f.ovahimba_sherman_eng.html