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Films
9 Films
with a digital version available
x
Keywords
“Sex Sexuality”
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films with a digital version
9
x
short films
4
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
East Africa
1
Scandinavia
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
2
Western Europe
3
Country
Brazil
1
China
1
Denmark
1
France
2
Indonesia
1
Kenya
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
2
Ethnofiction
4
Family / Kinship
3
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
5
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
LGBTQI*
4
Labour
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Migration
2
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Reflexivity
3
Reproduction (biology)
1
Ritual
1
Sex / Sexuality
9
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Directors
Akin, Dorcas
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Cai, Hua
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Mai, Nick
2
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Ndinya, June
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Series
not set
9
Country of production
China
1
France
2
Kenya
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
5
Year of production
1995
1
1996
1
2006
1
2007
1
2012
1
2016
3
2018
1
Film list
Atieno
2018
64
‘
Directed by
June Ndinya
Effie Awino
Ruth Njoki
Lavine Atieno
Dorcas Akin
.
Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl
East Africa
Health / Healthcare / Healing
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Ethnofiction
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Sex / Sexuality
Extended Family
2016
31
‘
Student
Directed by
Ramona Sonderegger
.
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe
LGBTQI*
Family / Kinship
Sex / Sexuality
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
The Guest
2012
20
‘
Student
Directed by
Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen
.
Following the personal story of a Danish first-time surrogate mother, ‘The Guest’ explores issues of maternal bonding, modern families, relatedness, and desired control over body and mind. We follow
Scandinavia
LGBTQI*
Sex / Sexuality
Reproduction (biology)
Family / Kinship
Mirror Mirror
2006
58
‘
Directed by
Zemirah Moffat
.
Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London’s queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities – a
British-Irish Isles
LGBTQI*
Sex / Sexuality
Gender Role and Identity
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
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
Travel
2016
63
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see ‘Travel – double screen version’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Travel (double screen)
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see ‘Travel’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Reflexivity
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