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Films
13 Films
Keywords
“Infrastructure Transport”
x
Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
7
short films
3
films available on demand
2
Region
Australia
2
East Africa
1
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
1
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
Scandinavia
2
South America
1
South-East Asia
2
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Australia
2
Colombia
1
Faroe Islands
2
Federated States of Micronesia
1
Indonesia
1
Myanmar
1
Portugal
1
Romania
1
Sudan
1
Syria
1
Uganda
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Development projects
4
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
13
x
Labour
1
Land Rights
2
Material Culture
4
Post-communism
1
Reflexivity
1
Resettlement
1
Rural
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
Directors
Haensch, Valerie
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lwin, Kyaw Myo
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Rasmussen, Ulla
1
Rasmussen, Ulla Boje
1
Sandall, Roger
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Singer, André
2
Uribe, Simón
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Șalaru, Maria
1
Series
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
2
Yangon Film School
1
not set
10
Country of production
Australia
3
Colombia
1
Denmark
2
Germany
1
Myanmar
1
Netherlands
1
Portugal
1
Romania
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
3
Year of production
1969
1
1973
1
1986
1
1989
2
1990
1
2002
1
2003
1
2009
1
2013
1
2014
1
2016
1
2019
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
1700 Metres from the Future
1990
86
‘
Directed by
Ulla Rasmussen
.
Ulla Boje Rasmussen portrays with humour and empathy life in the small Faroese village of Gásadalur, inhabited by just 16 adults and a 9-year old boy. The film gives a unique insight into the
Scandinavia
Land Rights
Infrastructure / Transport
Between two Villages
2003
94
‘
Directed by
Muriel Jaquerod
Eduardo Saraiva Pereira
.
Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few
Western Mediterranean
Resettlement
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
The Block
2016
60
‘
Student
Directed by
Maria Șalaru
.
From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, "The Block" explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
Urban
Post-communism
Infrastructure / Transport
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
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
Little Waterfall
2002
52
‘
Directed by
Joshka Wessels
.
Shallalah Saghirah (‘Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat
Middle and Near East
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Development projects
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
Suspension
2019
73
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Simón Uribe
.
This film documents the building of a modern road through the imposing geography of southern Colombia. It brilliantly captures some of the absurdities and contradictions of a construction project
South America
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Rural
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
Tyres
2013
30
‘
Directed by
Kyaw Myo Lwin
.
A recycling workshop in South Okkalapa in Myanmar’s former capital of Yangon is a place where discarded tyres are transformed from their original shape and use, and are re-purposed to new uses.
South-East Asia
Material Culture
Labour
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