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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Linguistics Language”
x
films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Central America
1
Melanesia
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
2
West Africa
1
Country
Indonesia
1
Ireland
1
Mexico
1
Philippines
1
Senegal
1
Vanuatu
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Environment
1
Family / Kinship
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
Indigenous Filmmaking
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Labour
1
Linguistics / Language
6
x
Love
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Asch, Patsy
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Fox, J.
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Grossman, Alan
1
Henley, Paul
1
O’Brien, Áine
1
Sojob, María
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
not set
4
Country of production
Australia
1
France
1
Ireland
1
Mexico
1
Senegal
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1983
1
1996
1
2008
1
2010
1
2015
1
2019
1
Film list
Kanraxël: the Confluence of Agnack
2015
52
‘
Student
Directed by
Remigiusz (aka Remi) Sowa
.
**DVD copies are available for secondary teaching and home use at the following prices: £35 (plus VAT) schools and colleges; £20 (plus VAT) individual / home use licence** Agnack is a
West Africa
Linguistics / Language
Social Change
The Poet’s Salary
2008
59
‘
Directed by
Eric Wittersheim
Alexandre Francois
.
For the first time in many years, on the little island of Motalava in Vanuatu, a new song will be composed in the island’s ancestors’ language, the language of god Quat, and become part of the
Melanesia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Linguistics / Language
Informant-researcher relationship
Promise and Unrest
2010
79
‘
Directed by
Alan Grossman
Áine O’Brien
.
Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia before arriving in Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, ‘Promise and Unrest’ is
South-East Asia
British-Irish Isles
Family / Kinship
Labour
Migration
Linguistics / Language
TOTE_Grandfather
2019
80
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
María Sojob
.
This film portrays an unexpected encounter between an old Tzotzil man, who is going blind, and his granddaughter, who does not remember her childhood well. The granddaughter, having grown up in the
Central America
Indigenous Filmmaking
Gender Role and Identity
Family / Kinship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Elderly people
Love
Intergenerational relations
Linguistics / Language
Memory
The Water of Words: a cultural ecology of a small island in Eastern Indonesia
1983
30
‘
Directed by
J. Fox
Timothy Asch
Patsy Asch
.
This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the
South-East Asia
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Linguistics / Language
Environment
Writing Panare – Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to
South America
Linguistics / Language
Education / Knowledge Transmission