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Films
4 Films
Country of production
“United States”
x
Year of production
“1989”
x
films with a digital version
3
short films
1
Region
Micronesia
1
South America
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Federated States of Micronesia
1
Indonesia
1
Keywords
Development projects
2
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Environment
1
Family / Kinship
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Rural
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Singer, André
2
Solomons, Natasha
1
Östör, Ákos
1
Series
not set
4
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
United States
4
x
Year of production
1989
4
x
Film list
Doctors of Two Worlds
1989
55
‘
Directed by
Natasha Solomons
.
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Informant-researcher relationship
Development projects
The Last Navigator
1989
50
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to
Micronesia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Infrastructure / Transport
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Seed and Earth
1989
36
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Ned Johnston
Ákos Östör
.
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of
South Asia
Rural
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1989
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Steven Lansing
.
The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at
South-East Asia
Infrastructure / Transport
Development projects
Environment