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Films
138 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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films hosted on Kanopy
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E
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F
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6
H
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K
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L
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M
3
N
3
O
13
P
6
R
12
S
30
T
13
U
5
V
7
W
11
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Y
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Region
Australia
4
British-Irish Isles
8
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
1
Central America
5
Central Asia and Far East
16
Central Europe
7
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
4
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
4
Scandinavia
4
South America
6
South Asia
9
South-East Asia
8
South-East Europe
30
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2
West Africa
9
Western Europe
10
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4
not set
1
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Afghanistan
1
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4
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5
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1
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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7
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1
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3
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1
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2
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1
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1
Ethiopia
3
France
1
Germany
3
Ghana
1
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3
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1
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1
India
4
Indonesia
6
Israel
1
Italy
17
Japan
4
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1
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1
Mexico
5
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1
Nepal
3
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1
Nigeria
4
Norway
1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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3
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1
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1
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2
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1
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2
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1
Spain
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
2
Taiwan
1
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
8
United States
7
Uzbekistan
1
Venezuela
1
Virtual Space
1
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
4
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
4
Animals
5
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
4
Archival material / Museum displays
4
Art / Artists / Artisans
5
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
9
Children/ Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
9
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
Dance / Theatre / Performance
3
Death
4
Development projects
4
Digital media
1
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
3
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly People
1
Elderly people
2
Environment
3
Everyday Life
3
Family / Kinship
7
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
40
Festivals/ Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Folklore
38
Food / Water
2
Gender Role and Identity
9
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
4
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
History
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
2
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
7
Informant-researcher relationship
3
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Infrastructure/transport
1
Inter-religious relations
2
Intergenerational relations
2
Internet
3
LGBTQI*
1
Labour
2
Land Rights
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
2
Love
3
Marriage
4
Material Culture
3
Migration
7
Music / Ethnomusicology
8
Music/ Ethnomusicology
1
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Myths/ Fairy tales
1
Nationalism
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
2
Possession
1
Post-communism
1
Prison
1
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
4
Reflexivity
6
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
11
Research Methods
1
Resettlement
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
9
Rural
4
Sensory Ethnography
1
Sex / Sexuality
4
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
8
Social Conflict
2
Social Organisation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Sport
3
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
3
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
3
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
2
Trade
4
Travellers / Roma
2
Urban
5
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
4
Directors
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Asch, Patsy
2
Asch, Timothy
2
Baily, John
1
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Cai, Hua
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Deger, Jennifer
2
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Engels, Claudia
1
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fox, J.
1
Fox, James J.
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gao, Ang
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Griggs, David
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Milling, Julie
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Nitzky, William
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
3
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Seaman, Gary
3
Song, Zhifang
3
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
3
Stefani, Fotini
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vybiral, James
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Werner, Louis
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Xu, Beina
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
not set
1
Östör, Ákos
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
3
Carnival King of Europe
38
Decolonising Shorts
4
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
43
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
3
not set
25
Country of production
Australia
8
Canada
1
China
5
Colombia
1
Denmark
1
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
1
France
1
Germany
3
Greece
1
Iceland
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
37
Japan
4
Mexico
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
2
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
Switzerland
1
Taiwan
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
57
United States
12
Uzbekistan
1
Year of production
1963
1
1964
1
1973
2
1983
1
1984
1
1985
1
1986
1
1987
1
1988
2
1989
1
1992
1
1993
1
1994
2
1995
3
1996
3
1997
1
1998
1
1999
3
2000
1
2001
5
2002
4
2003
2
2004
5
2006
3
2007
1
2008
9
2009
8
2010
8
2011
6
2012
2
2013
4
2014
7
2015
6
2016
6
2017
7
2018
6
2019
10
2020
11
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Water of Words: a cultural ecology of a small island in Eastern Indonesia
1983
30
‘
Directed by
J. Fox
Timothy Asch
Patsy Asch
.
This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the
South-East Asia
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Linguistics / Language
Environment
We Are Born to Survive
1995
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Paul Okojie
.
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester’s Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64.
British-Irish Isles
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Public Figure
We Don’t Need A Grave
2014
27
‘
.
‘We Don’t Need a Grave’ attempts to show how the people who choose Shizenso rather than the typical family grave try to accept one’s death. Shizenso is a natural mortuary practice that has no
Central Asia and Far East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Death
Ritual
We can be heroes just for (two) days. The Jannisaries of Naoussa
2016
20
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
The memory of an heroic episode of resistance against the Ottomans is re-enacted in Naoussa every year with the parade of an army of Janissaries. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession
The White Primavera of the Agordino
2016
16
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
The beauty of the village, impersonating a gypsy woman, the Zinghenesta, has the main dancing role in the masquerade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**.
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land
2019
30
‘
Directed by
Lisa Palmer
.
For more than a century, the island of Timor has been divided by a colonial border. Timor’s migratory wild honey bees challenge this division. In community honey harvest rituals, queen bees are
South-East Asia
Animals
Food / Water
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Women of a Divided Land
1997
22
‘
Directed by
Joanna Hill
.
This film follows the activities of Israeli and Palestinian women peace activists in Jerusalem and the West Bank, portraying both the collective and individual experiences of resistance.
Middle and Near East
Resistance
Political Activists
Religion / Belief / Faith
A Women’s Carnival in Tyrol
2017
9
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
Patsch is only place in the whole of Tyrol, where a company of women takes on the lead role of the Carnival parade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**. On
Central Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
Writing Panare – Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to
South America
Linguistics / Language
Education / Knowledge Transmission