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Films
5 Films
with a digital version available
x
Region
“Western Europe”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
5
x
short films
3
films available on demand
1
Region
North America
1
Western Europe
5
x
Country
France
1
Switzerland
1
The Netherlands
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
2
Family / Kinship
1
Food
1
Herding
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
2
LGBTQI*
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Day, Mike
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
National Film and Television School
1
not set
3
Country of production
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
5
x
United States
1
Year of production
1987
1
1991
1
2010
1
2015
1
2016
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
The Basques of Santazi
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
*In her book ‘The Circle of Mountains’ Sandra Ott provided a fascinating analysis of social reciprocity (…) The film highlights the village’s contemporary dilemmas and thereby complements rather
Western Europe
Herding
Social Change
Rural
A Donation to the Museum
2015
25
‘
Directed by
Teri F. Brewer
.
Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they
North America
Western Europe
Archaeology
Archival material / Museum displays
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 Guga Hunters of Ness
2010
59
‘
Directed by
Mike Day
.
This film follows a vanishing community’s beloved and unique tradition. The Gaelic speakers of Lewis and Scotland are the only people in the EU exempt from a ban on hunting gannets, but they are
Western Europe
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Animals
Ritual
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