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Films
8 Films
Keywords
“Colonialism Postcolonialism”
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Series
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films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
1
films available on demand
1
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
1
Caribbean Islands
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
South Asia
1
Western Europe
2
Country
Australia
2
Belgium
2
India
1
Jamaica
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Senegal
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Archival materials / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
2
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
8
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Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
History of Anthropology
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Life Story / Life History
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Political Activists
5
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
4
Resistance
1
Social Change
1
Sport
1
Directors
Davies, Sera
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Graham, Trevor
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Series
not set
8
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Country of production
Australia
2
Belgium
2
India
1
Jamaica
1
Senegal
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1997
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2013
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2014
2
2017
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2019
2
Film list
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
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
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
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