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Films
316 Films
Country of production
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M
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1
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42
T
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8
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W
10
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2
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
48
Caribbean Islands
5
Central Africa
1
Central America
7
Central Asia and Far East
20
Central Europe
3
East Africa
9
London
1
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9
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
18
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2
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16
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15
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6
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36
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26
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16
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8
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20
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17
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12
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8
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1
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1
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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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7
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12
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1
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2
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2
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1
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1
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7
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5
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1
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1
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4
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1
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1
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1
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6
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1
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6
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5
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4
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3
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1
Guatemala
2
Guinea-Bissau
1
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1
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1
India
14
Indonesia
10
Iran
3
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1
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1
Italy
5
Jamaica
2
Japan
9
Jordan
1
Kenya
7
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
Madagascar
1
Malawi
1
Malta
2
Mexico
3
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3
Morocco
2
Myanmar
3
Namibia
1
Nepal
5
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
8
Norway
2
Pakistan
5
Palestine
3
Papua New Guinea
8
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1
Peru
6
Portugal
3
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1
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5
Russian Federation
3
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1
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1
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3
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1
South Africa
3
Spain
3
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
5
Sweden
2
Switzerland
1
Syria
2
The Netherlands
2
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
51
United States
11
Various
8
Venezuela
8
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
9
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
15
Animals
17
Animation
2
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
2
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
9
Art / Artists / Artisans
11
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
24
Collective / Community identity
23
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
Dance / Theatre / Performance
19
Death
8
Development projects
13
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
9
Education / Knowledge transmission
4
Elderly people
5
Environment
5
Ethnofiction
3
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
16
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
10
Film / Photography / Mass media
14
Food
3
Gender Role and Identity
39
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
22
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
11
History
5
History of Anthropology
13
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
11
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
20
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5
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Inter-religious relations
6
Intergenerational relations
7
Internet
1
LGBTQI*
5
Labour
13
Land Rights
12
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
9
Life Story / Life History
3
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
2
Love
5
Marriage
16
Material Culture
7
Memory
12
Migration
13
Music / Ethnomusicology
20
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
7
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
4
Political Activists
12
Popular Culture
4
Possession
4
Post-communism
5
Prison
2
Public Figure
10
Race / Racism / Antiracism
4
Reflexivity
6
Refugees / Displaced populations
16
Religion / Belief / Faith
46
Reproduction (biology)
3
Research methods
1
Resistance
5
Ritual
45
Rural
15
Sex / Sexuality
8
Shamans and Shamanism
3
Social Change
32
Social Conflict
12
Social Norms
3
Social Organisation
14
Socioeconomic conditions
14
Sport
7
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
9
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
14
Trade
7
Travellers / Roma
5
Urban
14
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
25
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
11
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Blake, John
2
Bolchover, James
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Contreras, Elisa
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Cross, Stephen
1
Cubero, Carlo A.
1
Curling, Chris
5
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Elliot, Dominic
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Fassnidge, Matthew
1
Fedda, Yasmin
2
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Flores, Carlos
1
Ford, Ellie
1
French, Dominic
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Goldberg, Claudia
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Greenwood, Rachel
1
Griggs, David
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Grove-White, Will
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harries, Andy
3
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
6
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Hughes, Richard
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
2
Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
2
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
3
Longinotto, Kim
16
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Marcus, Alan
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
McGuirk, Siobhan
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Milling, Julie
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Milner, George
1
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
1
Moderbacher, Christine
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Moggan, Julie
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Moser, Brian
7
Munro, Neil G.
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Nairn, Charlie
5
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Owen, Chris
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Picard, David
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Powell, Harry
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Ravetz, Amanda
1
Read, Rosie
1
Reed, Alex
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rice, Tom
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Robertson, Rachel
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Ross, Nina
1
Samir-Shakir, Yasmin
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Singer, André
16
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
6
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Vella, Steve
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vybiral, James
1
Waddell, Anna
1
Wason, David
5
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
10
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Willerslev, Rane
1
Williams, Jano
3
Williams, Stacey
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
5
Øien, Cecilie
1
Series
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
1
Disappearing World Series
54
Forbidden Rites
3
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
121
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
National Film and Television School
10
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
5
Sudan Trilogy
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
8
Turkana Conversations
1
not set
99
Country of production
Australia
2
Austria
1
Brazil
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
Germany
3
India
2
Indonesia
2
Italy
2
Jordan
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
6
Peru
1
Romania
1
Senegal
1
South Africa
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
316
x
United States
9
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1931
1
1952
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
2
1971
3
1972
2
1973
2
1974
9
1975
5
1976
1
1977
6
1979
4
1980
2
1981
1
1982
4
1983
7
1984
3
1985
7
1986
6
1987
9
1988
9
1989
11
1990
5
1991
7
1992
5
1993
6
1994
4
1995
4
1996
5
1997
7
1998
8
1999
8
2000
9
2001
10
2002
11
2003
12
2004
9
2005
5
2006
7
2007
11
2008
18
2009
14
2010
16
2011
6
2012
3
2013
2
2014
4
2015
6
2016
3
2018
4
2019
3
2020
4
2021
2
Film list
Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California
2001
58
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Ethnomusicologist John Baily visits Fremont, California, the new home of the large community of exiled Afghans. He is joined by Kabuli master-musician, Ustad Asif Mahmoud, who plans to open a small
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge transmission
Refugees / Displaced populations
Talking to Each Other
1985
52
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
The third film of the **Caught in the Web** trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon,
Western Europe
British-Irish Isles
Rural
Socioeconomic conditions
Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
.
Once a year a ritual is held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. Their allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as
South-East Asia
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Sex / Sexuality
Gender Role and Identity
The Temple in the Sea
2008
26
‘
Directed by
Theo Youngstein
.
‘The Temple in the Sea’ looks at ritual and religious practice at a well-known Hindu shrine and its associated cremation grounds in Central Trinidad. Documenting the daily life of the Temple, and
Caribbean Islands
Ritual
Tenonde’i – a Beautiful Future
2008
30
‘
Directed by
Nadja Marin
.
In a village inside the world’s fifth largest and tough city, São Paulo, a young Guaraní created a children’s choir to raise money for his community. Filled with beautiful sounds, the film is a
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Children / Young people
Thanks Be to God
2008
31
‘
Directed by
Patrícia Pedrosa
.
Four Christian women work and live in a Muslim and patriarchic world. The ‘Sisters of the Consolata Missionaries’ are building a new library in Empada, a small village in the south of
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Theatre Girls
1979
57
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Pollack
.
The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any
British-Irish Isles
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Gender Role and Identity
There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle
2012
78
‘
Directed by
Sylvie Bringas
Dul Johnson
.
Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to Tarok land to observe the local death rituals and the record of the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honoring departed. This film provides a rare and
West Africa
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
They Say We’re All Winners
2002
32
‘
Directed by
Mari Finnestad
.
The Zimbabwean girls’ team comes to Norway to take part in the world’s largest kids’ football tournament. The film questions the outcome of this well-intentioned cultural exchange because some of the
Scandinavia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Sport
Collective / Community identity
The Thompsons
1996
29
‘
Directed by
Andy Lawrence
.
In 1996 the troubles in Northern Ireland continued to the sound of beating drums and marching feet. This is the story of a Protestant family in rural Ulster and their fight to remain British and free from Irish rule.
British-Irish Isles
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Those Who Don’t Work Don’t Make Love
1998
30
‘
Directed by
Cristina Grasseni
.
An observational documentary about dairy farmers in the Italian Alps. Caught between pride for tradition and the pressure for modernisation, the story of one family is told through the eyes of
Western Mediterranean
Agriculture / Farming
Social Change
Those who Care: Faith and Freedom in a Ladakhi Village
2001
31
‘
Directed by
Henriette Levaulx-Vrecourt
.
In Tia village, in an isolated area of Ladakh – North West India – lives an amchi (a local herbal doctor) and his wife. It is summer – a short season in the Indian Himalayas and the only period of
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
A Tibetan New Year
1987
45
‘
Directed by
Jon Jerstad
.
This outstanding documentary is placed in Northern India among a group of Tibetan refugees. They celebrate the New Year, following a ritual of their religion, Bonpo, which is older than Buddhism.
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
Tiempo de Vals
2006
22
‘
Directed by
Rebecca Savage
.
The ‘Quinceañera’ celebration is a lived illusion. A daydream shared by the whole community of Tetlanohcan, a rapidly urbanising agricultural town in Tlaxcala, Central Mexico. The dream is
Central America
Festivals / Carnival
Social Change
Tindaya Variations
2018
40
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon
.
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) is more than a mountain. It was a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura; later, its rock was quarried and sold for ornamental
Western Mediterranean
Archival material / Museum displays
Art / Artists / Artisans
Environment
Material Culture
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Archaeology
A Town in Sicily
2015
120
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
Castellammare is a ‘high-density Mafia’ seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to
South-East Europe
Political Activists
Transfiction
2007
58
‘
Directed by
Johannes Sjøberg
.
Transfiction explores ‘ethnofiction’ – an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others’ life experiences
South America
Reflexivity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
LGBTQI*
Ethnofiction
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
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
The Trobriand Islanders
1952
58
‘
Directed by
Harry Powell
.
During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting
Melanesia
Everyday Life
The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
1990
52
‘
Directed by
David Wason
.
The Trobriand Islands lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade everyday life.
Melanesia
Gender Role and Identity
Festivals / Carnival
Ritual
The Tuareg
1972
52
‘
Directed by
Charlie Nairn
.
This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their
North and Northeast Africa
Social Organisation
Social Change
Socioeconomic conditions
Nomads and Nomadism
Tuktu
1985
47
‘
Directed by
Graham Johnston
.
Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded almost 30 years ago on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development mark life now in this
North America
Animals
Social Change
Two Ears, One Mouth
1999
25
‘
Directed by
Andy Benfield
.
Duncan Williamson is of Traveller descent and lives in Scotland, Amy Douglas is fifty years younger and lives in Cheshire. But they share a love for telling stories and both manage to make a living
British-Irish Isles
Travellers / Roma
Art / Artists / Artisans