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Films
4 Films
with a digital version available
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Year of production
“1991”
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films with a digital version
4
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short films
1
Region
North and Northeast Africa
2
South-East Europe
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Albania
1
Ethiopia
2
The Netherlands
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Land Rights
1
Post-communism
1
Ritual
2
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
2
Directors
Rens, Maarten
1
Wason, David
1
Woodhead, Leslie
2
Series
Disappearing World Series
3
National Film and Television School
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
4
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Year of production
1991
4
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Film list
The Albanians of Rrogam
1991
52
‘
Directed by
David Wason
.
With the fall of the Stalinist regime in Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, the people of a remote mountain village, Rrogam, are faced with the dilmma of how to re-allocate the land and
South-East Europe
Post-communism
Social Change
Land Rights
Rural
Mursi: The Land is Bad
1991
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the
North and Northeast Africa
Ritual
Social Conflict
Health / Health care / Healing
Mursi: Nitha
1991
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
The proper time for a man to go through the Age Set Ceremony, the nitha, is just as he reaches physical maturity. But many years may elapse from one nitha to the next, so it is inevitable that some
North and Northeast Africa
Ritual
Social Conflict
Gender Role and Identity
Smoke
1991
28
‘
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Maarten Rens
.
The film deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town twelve miles north of Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern
Western Europe
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Food
Archival material / Museum displays