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Films
11 Films
Country
“United States”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
films with a digital version
6
short films
6
films available on demand
2
Region
Caribbean Islands
1
East Africa
1
North America
11
Western Europe
1
Country
Anguilla
1
Kenya
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
11
x
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Animals
1
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Family / Kinship
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Labour
1
Memory
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
3
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Rural
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
1
Trade
2
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Baily, John
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Hatland, Line
1
Howes, Arthur
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
4
National Film and Television School
2
Sudan Trilogy
1
not set
4
Country of production
United Kingdom
11
x
United States
3
Year of production
1984
1
1985
1
1995
1
1999
1
2001
1
2002
1
2008
1
2010
1
2015
2
2016
1
Film list
Benjamin and His Brother
1999
87
‘
Directed by
Arthur Howes
.
Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys", who have spent more years in refugee camps than in their home communities.
North America
East Africa
Refugees / Displaced populations
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Children / Young people
Family / Kinship
Business as Usual
2002
27
‘
Directed by
Lucy Pardee
.
Everyone knows about Ground Zero in New York, but have you bought into the memory? Big Mike, Tyrone and the other street vendors will sell you part of the disaster whilst offering you their views on
North America
Trade
Memory
Disasters
A Donation to the Museum
2015
25
‘
Directed by
Teri F. Brewer
.
Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they
North America
Western Europe
Archaeology
Archival material / Museum displays
Dreamcatcher
2015
98
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
A film set in Chicago about an inspirational woman who has defied her past and now rescues girls and young women from a life on the streets.
North America
Gender Role and Identity
Labour
Sex / Sexuality
Sacred Harp Singers
1984
85
‘
Directed by
Mark Brice
.
A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practised in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama, and is
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Rural
A Saint from New York
1995
30
‘
Directed by
Line Hatland
.
Dorothy Day, ex-communist, anarchist, single mother and co-founder of the widespread ‘Catholic Worker’ movement — died in New York in 1980. Soon after the Claretian Fathers started a campaign
North America
Alternative culture
Religion / Belief / Faith
The Shrimpers
2008
30
‘
Directed by
Austin Paterek
.
For the past 10 years the shrimping industry in United States has been on a steady decline. Estimates show that only 15 percent of the original fleet is still in operation, due to overseas
North America
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Trade
Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California
2001
58
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Ethnomusicologist John Baily visits Fremont, California, the new home of the large community of exiled Afghans. He is joined by Kabuli master-musician, Ustad Asif Mahmoud, who plans to open a small
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge transmission
Refugees / Displaced populations
Treasured Moments
2016
33
‘
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Tuktu
1985
47
‘
Directed by
Graham Johnston
.
Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded almost 30 years ago on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development mark life now in this
North America
Animals
Social Change
Vaud and the Villains
2010
30
‘
Directed by
Lukas Belkind
.
Three members of an 18-piece, 1930s style, American folk big band explore their personal relationships with Los Angeles, performing, the music they love, and the band that binds them all together.
North America
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology