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5
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4
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1
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1
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16
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20
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Agriculture / Farming
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11
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5
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14
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21
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21
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10
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6
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9
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6
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2
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9
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Elderly People
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Elderly people
3
Environment
5
Essay film
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Ethnofiction
3
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13
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10
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Festivals / Carnival
42
Festivals/ Carnival
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Folklore
38
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22
Gender Role and identity
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Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
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Akin, Dorcas
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Arcé, Adrian
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Arias Ortiz, Carolina
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Arif-Bashir, Abeera
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Asch, Patsy
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Asch, Timothy
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Atieno, Lavine
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Awino, Effie
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Ayisi, Florence
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Beier, Ulli
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Bernstein, Anya
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Bhattachary, Nilanjan
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Blake, John
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Bloching, Max
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Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
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Brandão, Joana
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Bringa, Tone
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Bringas, Sylvie
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Cai, Hua
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Colucci, Erminia
2
Connor, Linda
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Croall, Heather
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Davies, Sera
1
De Groof, Matthias
1
Defersha, Eyob
1
Deger, Jennifer
2
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Esteva, Jordi
1
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fox, J.
1
Fox, James J.
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gao, Ang
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Griggs, David
1
Grimshaw, Anna
12
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Haddis, Tesfahun
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Heusch, Luc de
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hogel, Jakob
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Howes, Arthur
1
Husmann, Rolf
2
Jayasankar, KP
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
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Johnston, Ned
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Kriszio, Janina
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Kuentz, Gaspard
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LaPin, Deirdre
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Lancker, Laurent Van
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Langer, Vanessa
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Lansing, Steven
1
Lappalainen, Heimo
2
Lawrence, Andy
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Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Longinotto, Kim
4
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Lydall, Jean
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
15
MacDougall, Judith
7
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Mai, Nick
1
Mansu, Marcia
1
Marin, Nadja
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Milling, Julie
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Monteiro, Anjali
1
Moore, Allen
1
Moser, Brian
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Ndinya, June
1
Newman, David
1
Nicolau, João
1
Nitzky, William
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Otto, Ton
1
Owen, Chris
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Rasmussen, Ulla Boje
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
3
Roy, Rahul
1
Sandall, Roger
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Seaman, Gary
3
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Singer, André
4
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Song, Zhifang
3
Sorensen, Richard
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
3
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Strecker, Ivo
1
Strecker, Kaira
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vybiral, James
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
3
Werner, Louis
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Xu, Beina
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
5
not set
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
Östör, Ákos
2
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
4
Carnival King of Europe
38
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
4
Disappearing World Series
2
Doon School Project
2
George’s Place
2
George’s Place: A seven part film series
5
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
44
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
2
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
5
Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods
4
National Film and Television School
2
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
3
Strangers Abroad
3
Sudan Trilogy
1
Taiga Nomads
2
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
Turkana Conversations
1
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
1
not set
93
Country of production
Australia
26
Belgium
3
Brazil
2
Canada
1
China
5
Colombia
1
Costa Rica
1
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Denmark
3
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
4
Finland
2
France
4
Germany
12
Ghana
1
Greece
1
Iceland
1
India
8
Indonesia
2
Italy
40
Jamaica
1
Japan
4
Kenya
1
Mexico
1
Netherlands
4
Nigeria
3
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
Spain
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
Taiwan
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
87
United States
34
Uzbekistan
1
not set
3
Year of production
not set
1
1963
1
1964
1
1969
1
1972
1
1973
2
1974
1
1975
1
1976
1
1978
2
1979
1
1980
2
1981
2
1982
1
1983
2
1984
3
1985
5
1986
6
1987
2
1988
3
1989
3
1991
3
1992
3
1993
2
1994
2
1995
3
1996
3
1997
1
1998
3
1999
4
2000
2
2001
8
2002
4
2003
3
2004
5
2005
5
2006
3
2007
3
2008
12
2009
12
2010
8
2011
9
2012
6
2013
9
2014
11
2015
9
2016
10
2017
11
2018
9
2019
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2020
20
2021
2
2022
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Film list
Waiting for Harry
1980
57
‘
Directed by
Kim McKenzie
.
Although the events around which this film was planned were the final mortuary rites for Les Angabarraparra, the subject of the film became interaction. Interaction between the anthropologist Les
Australia
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
Reflexivity
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1989
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Steven Lansing
.
The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at
South-East Asia
Infrastructure / Transport
Development projects
Environment
The Water of Words: a cultural ecology of a small island in Eastern Indonesia
1983
30
‘
Directed by
J. Fox
Timothy Asch
Patsy Asch
.
This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the
South-East Asia
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Linguistics / Language
Environment
We Are Born to Survive
1995
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Paul Okojie
.
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester’s Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64.
British-Irish Isles
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Public Figure
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
We can be heroes just for (two) days. The Jannisaries of Naoussa
2016
20
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
The memory of an heroic episode of resistance against the Ottomans is re-enacted in Naoussa every year with the parade of an army of Janissaries. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
2014
140
‘
Directed by
Ulla Boje Rasmussen
.
WESTERN OUTPOSTS – Faroese Cinematic Narratives is a DVD box set containing newly digitised versions of Ulla Buje Rasmussen’s 1990s films about Faroese life, a 2015 epilogfilm and a 32 page booklet
Scandinavia
Land Rights
Infrastructure / Transport
Everyday Life
When Four Friends Meet
2000
43
‘
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
Urban
Where the Clouds End
2014
52
‘
Directed by
Wanphrang Diengdoh
.
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and
South Asia
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
The White Primavera of the Agordino
2016
16
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
The beauty of the village, impersonating a gypsy woman, the Zinghenesta, has the main dancing role in the masquerade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**.
South-East Europe
Folklore
Festivals / Carnival
Why is Mr W. Laughing?
2017
76
‘
Directed by
Jana Papenbrook
.
Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Elderly people
Health / Health care / Healing
Life Story / Life History
Personal Narrative
Social participation
A Wife Among Wives
1981
72
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
This segment of the trilogy on the Turkana of northern Kenya (see ‘Lorang’s Way’ and ‘The Wedding Camels’ above) evolves around the role of women in the society. The audience follows the
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land
2019
30
‘
Directed by
Lisa Palmer
.
For more than a century, the island of Timor has been divided by a colonial border. Timor’s migratory wild honey bees challenge this division. In community honey harvest rituals, queen bees are
South-East Asia
Animals
Food / Water
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Winter Days
2013
59
‘
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
"Winter Days" evokes the stillness and quietness of the forest in winter. Life is lived close to the stove. It’s a time for small tasks and chores – making a wedge, sewing a pocket, the
North America
Alternative culture
Rural
Everyday Life
Art / Artists / Artisans
With Morning Hearts
2001
110
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film continues MacDougall’s long-term study of an elite boys’ boarding school in northern India. It focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds during their first year in one of the ‘houses’ for new
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Women of a Divided Land
1997
22
‘
Directed by
Joanna Hill
.
This film follows the activities of Israeli and Palestinian women peace activists in Jerusalem and the West Bank, portraying both the collective and individual experiences of resistance.
Middle and Near East
Resistance
Political Activists
Religion / Belief / Faith
A Women’s Carnival in Tyrol
2017
9
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
Patsch is only place in the whole of Tyrol, where a company of women takes on the lead role of the Carnival parade. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 5 PARADING THE VILLAGE**. On
Central Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
Writing Panare – Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to
South America
Linguistics / Language
Education / Knowledge Transmission