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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Infrastructure Transport”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
2
short films
2
Region
Australia
2
East Africa
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
Scandinavia
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Australia
2
Faroe Islands
1
Indonesia
1
Sudan
1
Uganda
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
6
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Land Rights
1
Material Culture
1
Reflexivity
1
Directors
Haensch, Valerie
1
Lansing, Steven
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Rasmussen, Ulla Boje
1
Sandall, Roger
1
Singer, André
1
Series
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
1
not set
5
Country of production
Australia
3
Denmark
1
Germany
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
2
Year of production
1969
1
1973
1
1986
1
1989
1
2009
1
2014
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Camels of the Pitjantjara
1969
45
‘
Directed by
Roger Sandall
.
From the 1920s onwards, when motor vehicles displaced camels as a mode of supply in central Australia, camels gradually went feral. As this film shows, however, in the 1960s, the Pitjantjara were
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Infrastructure / Transport
Animals
Sifinja – The Iron Bride
2009
70
‘
Directed by
Valerie Haensch
.
A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically
North and Northeast Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
A Transfer of Power
1986
22
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
Replacing the engine in an old car is a familiar rural task, but how people go about it differs. For these Aboriginal men in New South Wales, it’s an occasion for affirming continuing
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Education / Knowledge transmission
Infrastructure / Transport
Under the Men’s Tree
1973
15
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1989
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Steven Lansing
.
The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at
South-East Asia
Infrastructure / Transport
Development projects
Environment
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
2014
140
‘
Directed by
Ulla Boje Rasmussen
.
WESTERN OUTPOSTS – Faroese Cinematic Narratives is a DVD box set containing newly digitised versions of Ulla Buje Rasmussen’s 1990s films about Faroese life, a 2015 epilogfilm and a 32 page booklet
Scandinavia
Land Rights
Infrastructure / Transport
Everyday Life