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Films
3 Films
Keywords
“Material Culture”
x
Country of production
“United States”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
2
Region
North America
1
South America
1
South Asia
1
Country
India
1
United States
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Labour
1
Material Culture
3
x
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Grimshaw, Anna
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Östör, Ákos
1
Series
not set
3
Country of production
United States
3
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Year of production
2005
1
2012
1
2016
1
Festival Prize Category
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
Singing Pictures – Women Painters of Naya
2005
45
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Ákos Östör
.
For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya
South Asia
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Music / Ethnomusicology
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change