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Films
5 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Colonialism Postcolonialism”
x
short films
5
x
films available on demand
4
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
1
Melanesia
1
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Australia
1
Ethiopia
1
Germany
1
Nigeria
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Sierra Leone
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
2
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
x
Digital media
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
1
Internet
1
Migration
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
3
Reflexivity
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Paul
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Deger, Jennifer
1
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
4
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
Country of production
Australia
1
Germany
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
1992
1
2018
2
2019
1
2020
1
Film list
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
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
Making Worlds Otherwise
2020
28
‘
Directed by
Paul Gurrumuruwuy
Jennifer Deger
Enid Guruŋulmiwuy
Warren Balpatji
Meredith Balanydjarrk
James Ganambarr
Kayleen Djingadjingawuy
Victoria Baskin Coffey
Sebastian Lowe
.
An exuberant experiment in the ethnographic art of remix that gives new form to Miyarrka Media’s project of yuṯa, or new, anthropology. Sound, images, colour, light, and deeply felt patterns of
Australia
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Internet
Digital media
Participatory / Collaborative methods
New York Just Another City
2019
18
‘
Directed by
André Lopes
Joana Brandão
.
Brazilian Guarani filmmaker Patrícia Ferreira reflects on New York City and Indigenous representation in dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. This film is part of the collected DVD
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Pepsi War
1992
30
‘
Directed by
Charlie Clay
.
The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen resurgence in tribal warfare. Pepsi War follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over cola bottles.
Melanesia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Colonialism / Postcolonialism