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Films
3 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Country
“China”
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Keywords
“Tourism Travel Pilgrimage”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
3
x
films available on demand
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
2
South-East Asia
1
Country
China
3
x
Keywords
Music/ Ethnomusicology
1
Public Figure
1
Rural
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
2
x
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Berg, Julia
1
Nitzky, William
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Shorts Collection 2
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
2002
1
2010
1
2020
1
Film list
Bang the Drum
2020
28
‘
Directed by
William Nitzky
.
For the Yao minority in rural southwest China, the bronze drum is a sacred heritage. Its sound aids the souls of deceased elders in reaching the ancestral land. When the Chinese government steps in
Central Asia and Far East
Music/ Ethnomusicology
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
Rural
Shamans and Shamanism
The Most Admired Man
2002
29
‘
Directed by
Julia Berg
.
‘Wise’? ‘Serene’? ‘A Sage’? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of the ‘Real
South-East Asia
Public Figure
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Views from Heavenly Lake
2010
26
‘
Directed by
Polly Vinken
.
Since the beginning of the Mao era in 1949, populations that were once nomadic, isolated by miles of desert and mountains across the Tian Shan ranges, are now becoming highly sought after objects of
Central Asia and Far East
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Social Change