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Films
16 Films
Year of production
“2011”
x
Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
9
Region
British-Irish Isles
3
Central Europe
2
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
South America
1
South Asia
2
South-East Europe
2
West Africa
1
Western Europe
3
Western Mediterranean
3
Country
Belgium
1
Colombia
1
India
2
Italy
2
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Poland
1
Romania
1
Sierra Leone
1
Spain
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
3
not set
1
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
2
Collective / Community identity
1
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Festivals / Carnival
6
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Folklore
4
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Reflexivity
4
Ritual
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Conflict
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Urban
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Balikci, Anna
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
MacDougall, David
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Mora, Yves
1
Otto, Ton
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Trentini, Michele
5
Werbner, Richard
3
Series
Carnival King of Europe
5
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
3
not set
6
Country of production
Australia
1
Belgium
1
Denmark
1
India
1
Italy
6
United Kingdom
6
Year of production
2011
16
x
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Awareness
2011
67
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Krishnamurti, ‘Awareness’ explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teenagers,
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Carnival King of Europe. Release 2.0
2011
38
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
Giovanni Kezich
.
Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked
Western Europe
South-East Europe
Central Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
Counterpoint Botswana
2011
45
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Seeing ‘Holy Hustler’, the 2009 film made in Botswana, local viewers respond and discuss it with the filmmaker Richard Werbner in 2011. ‘Counterpoint Botswana’ captures the reception by home
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
Counterpoint One
2011
37
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The first in the Forum Follies series, ‘Counterpoint One’ pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film ‘Holy Hustlers’ (2009), from a rough to a final
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
Counterpoint Two
2011
45
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The second in the ‘Forum Follies’ series, ‘Counterpoint Two’ pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film ‘Encountering Eloyi’ (2008), from a rough to a
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
The Double Walk of the Joaldunak
2011
10
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
Joaldunak are “those who resound”, the great bell ringers heralding the Carnival parade between the twin villages of Ituren and Zubieta in the Basque-speaking Spanish Naffaroa. This film is
Western Mediterranean
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
Koza Szymborska. The Day of the Goat in Szymborze
2011
14
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
The Koza or Goat is animal that gives the masquerade its name throughout Eastern Europe, from Romania to Moldavia and the Ukraine, and all the way to northern Poland where we filmed it. This film
Central Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
Letters from Palestine
2011
35
‘
Directed by
Ludovica Fales
.
What if in your great-grandfather’s letters there is a mystery your family doesn’t want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never
Western Mediterranean
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
History
One day in Agnita
2011
10
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
Every four years, the new recruits in Carano are presented to the community in the midst of a complex carnival ritual called Banderàl. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 –
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
Other Europe
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. Khaled,
Western Mediterranean
Migration
Urban
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Ritual Journeys
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Dawa Lepcha
Anna Balikci
.
The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for
South Asia
Ritual
Shamans and Shamanism
Health / Health care / Healing
Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire
2011
53
‘
Directed by
Yves Mora
.
Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi- ‘les Forges de la Providence’- was saved from demolition being brought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together
Western Europe
Alternative culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Saliendo Adelante
2011
28
‘
Directed by
Ben Cheetham
.
Growing up on the streets of Bogotá, where drugs and violence dominate, it seemed as though José might never escape this cycle. It is the job of Orlando and those at the Institution for the
South America
Children / Young people
Socioeconomic conditions
Development projects
Shooting Freetown
2011
29
‘
Directed by
Kieran Hanson
.
A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,
West Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Reflexivity
The Silvesters of Urnäsch
2011
13
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
A celebration of mountain wilderness is all too evident in the costumes of the Silvesters of Urnäsch in Outer Appenzell, particularly in their “Pretty/Ugly” version. This film is part of
Western Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Unity through Culture
2011
69
‘
Directed by
Christian Suhr
Ton Otto
.
Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organizes the
Melanesia
Festivals / Carnival
Social Conflict
Collective / Community identity