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Films
9 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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Keywords
“Film Photography Mass media”
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films with a digital version
4
short films
9
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films available on demand
3
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
2
Caribbean Islands
1
Central America
1
North America
1
South America
2
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
1
Country
Anguilla
1
Australia
1
Colombia
1
Ireland
1
Myanmar
1
Peru
1
Sierra Leone
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Ethnofiction
1
Family / Kinship
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
9
x
History of Anthropology
3
Indigenous Filmmaking
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Memory
2
Migration
1
Popular Culture
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
1
Ritual
1
Urban
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Gómez Ruíz, Sebastián
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Htway, Aung Nwai
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Villafaña Chaparro, Amado
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
Yangon Film School
1
not set
5
Country of production
Colombia
1
Myanmar
1
Peru
1
United Kingdom
7
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1994
1
1999
1
2006
1
2010
1
2011
1
2012
1
2016
1
2017
1
2019
1
Film list
Behind the Screen
2012
35
‘
Directed by
Aung Nwai Htway
.
A son dissects his parents’ marriage – they were film icons in 1960s Myanmar. It turns out the heartrending scenes they acted out on the silver screen are a pretty accurate reflection of their
South-East Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Family / Kinship
Memory
Cinema Pedregal
1994
27
‘
Directed by
Ricardo Leizaola
.
For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first went to the cinema.
Central America
Popular Culture
Urban
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Fragments from the Past
2006
27
‘
Directed by
Vedide Kaymak
Hakan Demiralay
.
In the days before DVD and satellite television, the cinema was important to London’s Turkish speaking population as a place to meet and as a link with home. Eight individuals recount their
British-Irish Isles
Popular Culture
Migration
Film / Photography / Mass media
Horror in the Andes
2019
33
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it
South America
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ethnofiction
Film / Photography / Mass media
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Looking for the Man Of Aran
1999
25
‘
Directed by
Sebastian Eschenbach
.
It is 60 years since Robert Flaherty made Man of Aran. How do the people of the Aran Islands remember the experience and what do they feel about the image the films gives of their land?
British-Irish Isles
Film / Photography / Mass media
History of Anthropology
Masks of Mer
2010
37
‘
Directed by
Michael Eaton
.
The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. ‘The Masks of Mer’ tells the extraordinary story of
Australia
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
Archival material / Museum displays
Ritual
Shooting Freetown
2011
29
‘
Directed by
Kieran Hanson
.
A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,
West Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Reflexivity
Treasured Moments
2016
33
‘
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Wási
2017
16
‘
Shorts
Directed by
Sebastián Gómez Ruíz
Amado Villafaña Chaparro
.
As the sun rises on a village in northern Colombia, we glimpse its inhabitants as they begin their day. As the scene emerges from obscurity, a voiceover reflects on the nature of sight. It is the
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Indigenous Filmmaking
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media