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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
x
Keywords
“Death”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
3
x
short films
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Melanesia
1
West Africa
1
Country
Nigeria
1
Solomon Islands
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Death
3
x
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
3
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
1
Directors
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
not set
2
Country of production
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
3
x
Year of production
1982
1
2003
1
2012
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Cultivating Death
2003
23
‘
Directed by
Martin Gruber
.
Cemeteries are not only places for the dead. They are also spaces in which the living interact with each other – and with the dead. “Cultivating Death” depicts the different ways in which
British-Irish Isles
Death
Ritual
The Lau of Malaita
1982
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
*Pierre Miranda and a team from Granada Television have made a fine film exploring the trouble realities of the people of the lagoon in the 1980s.* (B. Shore) This film focuses on the people of
Melanesia
Social Change
Social Conflict
Ritual
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
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