Films

Film list

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NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING MORTUARY TRADITIONS 2007 59'
Directed by Christian Suhr Nielsen Ton Otto.
A film about how anthropological knowledge is developed through active participation in traditional exchange ceremonies on the small island of Baluan in the South Pacific. The film follows the
Melanesia Death Ritual Informant-researcher relationship Social Conflict
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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