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Films
14 Films
Keywords
“Education Knowledge Transmission”
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Series
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films with a digital version
6
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
3
films available on demand
1
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
3
Micronesia
1
South Asia
6
West Africa
1
Western Europe
2
Country
Afghanistan
2
Australia
1
Belgium
1
Burkina Faso
1
Federated States of Micronesia
1
India
4
Italy
1
United Kingdom
3
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Children / Young people
7
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
14
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Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History of Anthropology
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Land Rights
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
4
Personal Narrative
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Baily, John
3
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
De Groof, Matthias
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Kashyap, Kumar
1
Kumar, Shikha
1
Landseer, Kimona
1
Longinotto, Kim
2
MacDougall, David
3
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Shivhare, Ravi
1
Singer, André
1
Singh, Anshu
1
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Country of production
Australia
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Belgium
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India
2
Italy
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United Kingdom
6
United States
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not set
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Year of production
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2005
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2007
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2008
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2016
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2019
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Film list
Arnav At Six
2012
28
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Filmed as a collaborative project with Arnav Koshy in 2008, this film explores the mind and activities of an intelligent and observant child of six. Arnav is fascinated by the geology, plant-life,
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Delhi at Eleven
2013
82
‘
Directed by
Ravi Shivhare
Anshu Singh
Kumar Kashyap
Shikha Kumar
.
This film presents the work of four young filmmakers of New Delhi. From March to May 2012 they took part in a video workshop at the CIE Experimental Basic School, a government primary school. Each of
South Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Familiar Places
1980
50
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Anthropologist Peter Sutton is taken by an Aboriginal family, the Naponans, to map hereditary clan country in northern Queensland where they hope to live one day. To the children it is all new; to an
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Education / Knowledge Transmission
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
Hold Me Tight Let Me Go
2007
99
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
*The main reason I wanted to shoot is that when the kids misbehave, the teachers don’t punish them but try to find out why they are acting in such a way. The driving idea behind the school is to
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Health / Health care / Healing
Kalanda – the Knowledge of the Bush
2014
62
‘
Directed by
Lorenzo Ferrarini
.
In some parts of West Africa, hunting is much more than killing animals. A donso is no common hunter, but a healer, a diviner, a ritual specialist and amulet maker. Kalanda is a unique initiatory
West Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Ritual
The Last Navigator
1989
50
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to
Micronesia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Infrastructure / Transport
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Lessons from Gulam
1986
52
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
A detailed study of musical enculturation within the Asian community of Bradford in northern England. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teacher and as a musician. The film
British-Irish Isles
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
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
Pride of Place – Observations of lives of girls at a Public School
1976
59
‘
Directed by
Dorothea Gazidis
Kimona Landseer
Kim Longinotto
.
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Gender Role and Identity
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
‘
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Some Alien Creatures
2005
74
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. In this film about a progressive
South Asia
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Ustad Rahim
2008
55
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician,
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Personal Narrative