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Films
3 Films
Country
“Sierra Leone”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
West Africa
3
Country
Nigeria
1
Sierra Leone
3
x
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Everyday Life
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
1
Rural
1
Social Organisation
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Basu, Paul
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
MacDonald, Bruce
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
1990
1
2011
1
2018
1
Film list
Faces Voices
2018
18
‘
Directed by
Paul Basu
Christopher Thomas Allen
.
The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort
West Africa
British-Irish Isles
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
The Mende
1990
52
‘
Directed by
Bruce MacDonald
.
This is a portrait of Kpuawala, Sierra Leone, a village of some 260 Mende people living in a clearing in the forest in houses of mud brick and tin. Like any village portrait it gossips, happy
West Africa
Everyday Life
Social Organisation
Rural
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
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