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Films
5 Films
Keywords
“Herding”
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Directors
“MacDougall, David”
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short films
1
films available on demand
2
Region
Australia
1
East Africa
3
Western Europe
1
Country
Australia
1
Italy
1
Kenya
2
Uganda
1
Keywords
Animals
2
Family / Kinship
2
Herding
5
x
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Land Rights
1
Marriage
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Nomads and Nomadism
2
Rural
1
Social Change
2
Directors
MacDougall, David
5
x
MacDougall, Judith
4
Series
Turkana Conversations
2
not set
3
Country of production
Australia
5
Italy
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
2
Year of production
1970
1
1976
1
1977
1
1982
1
1993
1
Film list
Lorang’s Way
1977
69
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
The Turkana are a group of semi-nomadic pastoralists who inhabit a harsh environment of dry thorn country in northwestern Kenya. Lorang’s Way focuses upon a Turkana elder. Having spent time away
East Africa
Herding
Social Change
Nomads and Nomadism
Nawi
1970
20
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
This classic ethnographic documentary, by the renowned filmmaking team of David and Judith MacDougall, explores the nomadic life of the Jie of Uganda. During the dry season the Jie leave their
East Africa
Herding
Music / Ethnomusicology
Nomads and Nomadism
Tempus de Baristas
1993
100
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film depicts the characters, and social dilemmas of three generations of Sardinian mountain shepherds. Although born roughly 20 years apart, Franchiscu (62), his son Pietro (17) and their
Western Europe
Herding
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Rural
Three Horsemen
1982
50
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Bob Massey Pootchemunka has spent most of his life as a stockman and drover. Now over 75, his ambition is to see an all-Aboriginal cattle station operating at Ti-Tree on his traditional clan land.
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Herding
Animals
Land Rights
The Wedding Camels
1976
108
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
Also about individuals from the Turkana in north-western Kenya (see ‘Lorang’s Way’ and ‘A Wife Among Wives’), this film chronicles a series of events which surround the marriage of Lorang’s
East Africa
Family / Kinship
Marriage
Animals
Herding