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Films
13 Films
with a digital version available
x
Region
“Western Europe”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
13
x
short films
5
films available on demand
2
Region
Central Africa
1
Central Europe
1
North America
1
South-East Europe
1
Western Europe
13
x
Country
Belgium
2
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
Cameroon
1
France
3
Germany
1
Italy
2
Netherlands
1
Spain
1
Switzerland
2
The Netherlands
1
United Kingdom
3
United States
1
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Animals
1
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Collective / Community identity
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Ethnofiction
2
Family / Kinship
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
LGBTQI*
1
Labour
3
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Material Culture
1
Migration
3
Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Reflexivity
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Reproduction (biology)
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Science / Technology
1
Sex / Sexuality
3
Trade
1
Travellers / Roma
1
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Day, Mike
1
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Mai, Nick
2
Meyknecht, Steef
1
Mora, Alba
1
Mora, Yves
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Straube, Anna
1
Series
not set
13
x
Country of production
Belgium
1
France
2
Germany
1
Italy
1
Netherlands
2
Spain
1
Switzerland
2
United Kingdom
3
United States
2
Year of production
2005
1
2009
3
2010
1
2011
1
2015
2
2016
5
Film list
Breeding Cells
2009
39
‘
Directed by
Anna Straube
.
Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There
Western Europe
Reproduction (biology)
Science / Technology
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
Ghetto PSA
2016
15
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not
Western Europe
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Education / Knowledge Transmission
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
A Hospice in Amsterdam
2005
62
‘
Directed by
Steef Meyknecht
.
At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die.
Western Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Elderly people
Je ne suis pas moi-même
2009
50
‘
Directed by
Alba Mora
Anna Sanmartí
.
Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, ‘Je ne suis pas moi-même’ examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market
Central Africa
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Trade
Journey into Europe
2015
122
‘
Directed by
Akbar Ahmed
.
In Journey into Europe, Akbar Ahmed, a world-renowned anthropologist, Islamic scholar, and filmmaker who the BBC has called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam,” explores Islam
Central Europe
Western Europe
South-East Europe
History
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri
2016
29
‘
Material Culture
Directed by
Thomas Horat
.
Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a
Western Europe
Material Culture
Labour
Rural
Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire
2011
53
‘
Directed by
Yves Mora
.
Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi- ‘les Forges de la Providence’- was saved from demolition being brought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together
Western Europe
Alternative culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
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
Vasile Nedea
2009
43
‘
Directed by
Sjoerd van Grootheest
.
The film tells the story of Vasile Nedea, a Romanian gypsy musician an Amsterdam. Due to his former illegal status there have been times in which he was forced to show his skills whilst busking the
Western Europe
Travellers / Roma
Music / Ethnomusicology