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Films
15 Films
Keywords
“Colonialism Postcolonialism”
x
films with a digital version
4
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
5
films available on demand
5
Region
Australia
3
British-Irish Isles
3
Caribbean Islands
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
2
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South Asia
2
West Africa
1
Western Europe
3
Country
Australia
3
Belgium
2
Ethiopia
1
Germany
1
India
2
Jamaica
1
Nigeria
1
Papua New Guinea
2
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
1
United Kingdom
3
United States
1
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
3
Archival materials / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
3
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
15
x
Digital media
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
History
1
History of Anthropology
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Internet
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Life Story / Life History
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Political Activists
5
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
7
Reflexivity
1
Resistance
1
Social Change
1
Sport
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Paul
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Davies, Sera
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Deger, Jennifer
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dineen, Molly
1
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Graham, Trevor
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Harries, Andy
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Singer, André
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
4
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
National Film and Television School
1
not set
8
Country of production
Australia
3
Belgium
2
Germany
1
India
1
Jamaica
1
Senegal
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
5
United States
2
Year of production
1974
1
1979
1
1984
1
1992
1
1997
1
2013
1
2014
2
2017
1
2018
2
2019
3
2020
1
Film list
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
Faces Voices
2018
18
‘
Directed by
Paul Basu
Christopher Thomas Allen
.
The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort
West Africa
British-Irish Isles
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Home from the Hill
1984
60
‘
Directed by
Molly Dineen
.
Anthropology’s relationship with colonialism has been discussed widely. Yet the ethnography of the colonial service remains largely unexplored on film. This entertaining documentary shows, not
British-Irish Isles
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Khyber
1979
49
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Andy Harries
.
For more than a century Britain was engaged in war with the Pashtun tribesmen of India’s North West frontier. It began with the bloodiest massacre in the history of the British Empire when, in
South Asia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
History
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Making Worlds Otherwise
2020
28
‘
Directed by
Paul Gurrumuruwuy
Jennifer Deger
Enid Guruŋulmiwuy
Warren Balpatji
Meredith Balanydjarrk
James Ganambarr
Kayleen Djingadjingawuy
Victoria Baskin Coffey
Sebastian Lowe
.
An exuberant experiment in the ethnographic art of remix that gives new form to Miyarrka Media’s project of yuṯa, or new, anthropology. Sound, images, colour, light, and deeply felt patterns of
Australia
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Internet
Digital media
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Messages by Music – Senegal in Transition
2013
76
‘
Directed by
Cornelia Strasse
.
The traditional musicians in Senegal were in charge of retaining the history of their ethnic group, along with ways of thinking and behaving. Their aim was to conserve the society. Nowadays the
East Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Social Change
Political Activists
Resistance
Namatjira Project
2017
87
‘
Directed by
Sera Davies
.
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was
Australia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
New York Just Another City
2019
18
‘
Directed by
André Lopes
Joana Brandão
.
Brazilian Guarani filmmaker Patrícia Ferreira reflects on New York City and Indigenous representation in dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. This film is part of the collected DVD
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
‘
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Education / Knowledge Transmission
History of Anthropology
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
‘
Decolonising the Archive
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival materials / Museum displays
Archaeology
Education / Knowledge transmission
History of Anthropology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Pepsi War
1992
30
‘
Directed by
Charlie Clay
.
The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen resurgence in tribal warfare. Pepsi War follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over cola bottles.
Melanesia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
The Price of Memory
2014
83
‘
Directed by
Karen Marks Mafundikwa
.
In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II visited Jamaica for her Golden Julibee Celebrations. While there she was petitioned by a group of Rastafari for slavery reparations. For Rastafari, reparations are linked
Caribbean Islands
British-Irish Isles
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
Where the Clouds End
2014
52
‘
Directed by
Wanphrang Diengdoh
.
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and
South Asia
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity