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Films
10 Films
Keywords
“Life Story Life History”
x
films with a digital version
5
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
4
films available on demand
6
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
1
Central Asia and Far East
1
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
1
Middle and Near East
1
South America
1
South Asia
1
South-East Europe
2
Western Europe
2
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Australia
1
Belgium
1
Chile
1
Germany
1
Greece
1
Hungary
1
India
1
Italy
2
Singapore
1
Syria
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Animation
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Elderly people
1
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
2
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
9
Life Story/ Life History
1
x
Memory
2
Migration
3
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
3
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
1
Public Figure
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Research methods
1
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Social participation
1
Urban
1
Directors
Banks, Marcus
1
Bloching, Max
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Graham, Trevor
1
Grégoire, Charlotte
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Ross, Nina
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
Shorts Collection 2
1
Shorts collection 2
1
not set
7
Country of production
Australia
1
Chile
1
Germany
2
Italy
1
Singapore
1
United Kingdom
4
not set
1
Year of production
1974
1
1988
1
1997
1
2000
1
2017
1
2018
2
2019
1
2020
2
Film list
André and Nándi
2000
30
‘
Directed by
Charlotte Grégoire
.
Hungarian-born André Reinitz only discovered his Jewish identity when he moved to Brussels at the age of ten. Since then, in spite of the silence of his parents, he has become involved in the Jewish
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Life Story / Life History
The Daring Young Girl on the Flying Trapeze
2020
27
‘
Directed by
Nina Ross
.
As a child, Nancy Willis dreamt of joining the circus, longing for freedom and adventure. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and told she would not live beyond her twenties, the now 65-year-old artist
British-Irish Isles
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
Personal Narrative
Health/ Health care/ Healing
Life Story/ Life History
From There to Here
2019
30
‘
Directed by
Qi Yu Teo
.
In 1949, the author’s young grandfather migrated from An Xi, China, to Singapore. Spending almost 70 years in Singapore, he has only been back home four times. As an immigrant from China,
Central Asia and Far East
Migration
Intergenerational relations
Life Story / Life History
IT WAS TOMORROW
2018
53
‘
Student
Directed by
Alexandra D’onofrio
.
After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men – Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed – are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to
Western Mediterranean
Animation
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Life Story / Life History
Memory
Migration
Research methods
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Raju and His Friends
1988
40
‘
Directed by
Marcus Banks
.
This film is set in the city of Jamnagar, western India. The film focuses on the emotions, quality of life, and on duty. Raju’s friendship with different people, including the director, provide a
South Asia
Urban
Informant-researcher relationship
Life Story / Life History
This is My Face
2018
57
‘
Student
Directed by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living
South America
LGBTQI*
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Health / Health care / Healing
Gender Role and Identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Life Story / Life History
Art / Artists / Artisans
Unwritten Letters
2020
59
‘
Directed by
Max Bloching
Abd Alrahman Dukmak
.
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called Unwritten
South-East Europe
Middle and Near East
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Life Story / Life History
Why is Mr W. Laughing?
2017
76
‘
Directed by
Jana Papenbrook
.
Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Elderly people
Health / Health care / Healing
Life Story / Life History
Personal Narrative
Social participation