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Films
4 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Death”
and
“Ritual”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
4
x
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Central Asia and Far East
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Indonesia
1
Japan
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Death
4
x
Environment
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
4
x
Directors
Forge, Anthony
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Wright, Evie
1
not set
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
not set
2
Country of production
Australia
1
Japan
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1973
1
2003
1
2004
1
2014
1
Film list
Beneath the Budding Greenwoods
2004
25
‘
Directed by
Evie Wright
.
Anne and Rosemary both chose to bury their husbands in the woods, whereas Tony was certain he didn’t want a vicar at his wife’s funeral. Focusing on the experiences of three grieving widows, the film
British-Irish Isles
Environment
Ritual
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Cultivating Death
2003
23
‘
Directed by
Martin Gruber
.
Cemeteries are not only places for the dead. They are also spaces in which the living interact with each other – and with the dead. “Cultivating Death” depicts the different ways in which
British-Irish Isles
Death
Ritual
Ngarap: fighting over a corpse
1973
17
‘
Directed by
Anthony Forge
.
In 1993, Anthony Forge filmed the cremation of an older woman from an affluent ‘commoner’ family. As her body was moved from her family compound to the cremation tower, men of the ward seized the
South-East Asia
Death
Ritual
Art / Artists / Artisans
Archival material / Museum displays
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