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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“HuntingGatheringFishing”
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Series
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films with a digital version
4
short films
1
Region
East Africa
1
Hong Kong
1
North America
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Burkina Faso
1
Italy
1
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
not set
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Everyday Life
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
6
Labour
2
Material Culture
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
2
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Directors
Day, Mike
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Grimshaw, Anna
1
Ma, Chi-hang
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Series
not set
6
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Country of production
Hong Kong
1
Italy
1
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
2010
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2012
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2014
1
2016
2
2017
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Film list
At Low Tide
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
Every day, carrying the simplest of tools, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig for clams on the wide mud flats that stretch far into the bay. It is backbreaking work. But it has
North America
Material Culture
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Ballad on the Shore
2017
98
‘
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Chi-hang Ma
.
On the small isle of Tap Mun, Hong Kong, veteran fishermen sing ballads with pitches and tones that alternate and repeat themselves as if they were synchronising with the ocean waves. But as fewer
Hong Kong
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Music / Ethnomusicology
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
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
Sea Boundary
2012
55
‘
Directed by
Rosella Schillaci
.
The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the
Western Mediterranean
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
The Way We Live Now
2016
32
‘
Student
Directed by
Sophia Hersi Smith
.
‘The Way We Live Now’ is an intimate portrait of the daily routines and rituals of the Hadza; modern-day hunter-gatherers living in the acacia-baobab woodlands surrounding Lake Eyasi in North-Central
East Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Everyday Life