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Films
13 Films
Year of production
“2006”
x
films with a digital version
8
short films
5
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Central America
2
Central Europe
1
Middle and Near East
1
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South Asia
3
Southern Africa
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Botswana
1
Ethiopia
1
Hungary
1
India
2
Mexico
1
Nepal
1
Portugal
1
Puerto Rico
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Animals
1
Children / Young people
1
Family / Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
2
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
1
Labour
3
Migration
3
Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Popular Culture
1
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
2
Socioeconomic conditions
2
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Trade
1
Urban
1
Directors
Bruun, Dan
1
Cubero, Carlo A.
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Hörmann, André
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kharel, Dipesh
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Tari, János
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Øien, Cecilie
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
4
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
8
Country of production
Germany
1
Hungary
1
India
2
Japan
1
Norway
1
United Kingdom
7
United States
1
Year of production
2006
13
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Film list
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
2006
85
‘
Directed by
Ben Hopkins
.
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives
Middle and Near East
Film / Photography / Mass media
Animals
Migration
Calcutta Calling
2006
16
‘
Directed by
André Hörmann
.
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western
South Asia
Labour
The Devil’s Mills. Roundabouts don’t Build Houses any more
2006
56
‘
Directed by
János Tari
.
The everyday life of migrant fun fair operators is the filter through which we view the social and economic factors of the 20th and early 21st century that define the life and work of this social
Central Europe
Labour
Social Change
Trade
Festivals / Carnival
Fragments from the Past
2006
27
‘
Directed by
Vedide Kaymak
Hakan Demiralay
.
In the days before DVD and satellite television, the cinema was important to London’s Turkish speaking population as a place to meet and as a link with home. Eight individuals recount their
British-Irish Isles
Popular Culture
Migration
Film / Photography / Mass media
Growing Pains
2006
41
‘
Directed by
Cecilie Øien
.
Júlia is a young Angolan woman who lives in a poor neighborhood of Lisbon, together with her daughter Magui. The story of how she arrived in Portugal and what happen to her afterwards is dramatic,
Western Mediterranean
Family / Kinship
Intergenerational relations
Migration
A Life with Slate
2006
59
‘
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
.
Alampu is a beautiful and exceedingly remote village in Nepal. The majority of the settlers there are Thami people, one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. More than 90 percent of them have been
South Asia
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Mangrove Music
2006
49
‘
Directed by
Carlo A. Cubero
.
The Caribbean island of Culebra is located between Spanish speaking Puerto Rico and English speaking Virgin Islands. Musicians from the island are inspired from a variety of regional, national and
Central America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Mirror Mirror
2006
58
‘
Directed by
Zemirah Moffat
.
Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities – a
British-Irish Isles
LGBTQI*
Sex / Sexuality
Gender Role and Identity
Q2P
2006
55
‘
Directed by
Paromita Vohra
.
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Socioeconomic conditions
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
‘
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Shade Seekers and The Mixer
2006
60
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Set in Moremi village within Botswana’s awesome Tswapong hills, the film makes village elders self-consciously reflexive. The elders, including a controversial healer, view and discuss an earlier
Southern Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Informant-researcher relationship
Temporary Sanity: The Skerrit Boy Story
2006
32
‘
Directed by
Dan Bruun
.
This film deals with the culture of Jamaican dancehall music as it exists in New York. It follows one young dancehall participant who makes his living performing and promoting dancehall music.
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Alternative culture
Tiempo de Vals
2006
22
‘
Directed by
Rebecca Savage
.
The ‘Quinceañera’ celebration is a lived illusion. A daydream shared by the whole community of Tetlanohcan, a rapidly urbanising agricultural town in Tlaxcala, Central Mexico. The dream is
Central America
Festivals / Carnival
Social Change