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Films
12 Films
Keywords
“Music Ethnomusicology”
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Series
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Festival Prize Category
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films with a digital version
7
short films
3
films available on demand
1
Region
Australia
1
Latin America
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
North America
1
South America
1
South Asia
3
West Africa
3
Western Europe
1
Country
Afghanistan
2
Australia
1
Brazil
2
Cote d’Ivoire
1
Ghana
2
India
1
Nigeria
1
Pakistan
1
The Netherlands
1
United States
1
Vanuatu
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
3
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Everyday Life
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Material Culture
2
Memory
1
Migration
2
Music / Ethnomusicology
12
Popular Culture
1
Possession
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
2
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Travellers / Roma
1
Directors
Baily, John
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Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
1
Deger, Jennifer
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Esteva, Jordi
1
Francois, Alexandre
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Fruzzetti, Lina
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Grootheest, Sjoerd van
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LaPin, Deirdre
1
Mansu, Marcia
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Speed, Frank
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Wittersheim, Eric
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Wunungmurra, Paul
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Östör, Ákos
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12
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Country of production
Australia
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Brazil
2
Côte d’Ivoire
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France
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Netherlands
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Spain
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United Kingdom
4
United States
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Year of production
1984
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1986
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2005
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2007
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2008
2
2009
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2017
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2022
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Festival Prize Category
Film list
Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar
2008
54
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
It is the year 2000 and most of Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. Hearing that many of Afghanistain’s musicians are now in exile across the border in Pakistan, ethnomusicologist John
South Asia
Refugees / Displaced populations
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Cine Rabeca
2022
55
‘
Directed by
Marcia Mansu
.
Time dimensions emerge from the relation between the visible and the imagined, between memory and the experience of the present. A unique place emerges through the entanglement of music and archive
Latin America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Komian
2015
72
‘
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
Four years after the filming of “Return to the Land of Souls”, about the rituals of trance and possession, the narrator travels to Ivory Coast in search of a priestess possessed by the Spirit of
West Africa
Possession
Ritual
Music / Ethnomusicology
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
Polka
1986
50
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Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
.
The film confronts the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the ‘roots’ of
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
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Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Ringtone
2014
30
‘
Directed by
Jennifer Deger
Paul Wunungmurra
.
Yolngu Aboriginal families offer glimpses into their lives and relationships through their choice of ringtones. From ancestral clan songs to 80s hip hop artists and local gospel tunes, these songs
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Music / Ethnomusicology
Material Culture
Scenes of Afghan Music: London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin
2007
97
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Scenes of Afghan Music is Part IV of ‘A Quartet of Afghan Music Films’, made in the author’s personal “fieldwork movie” style. It reveals the diversity of music and dance practices in the
Middle and Near East
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Collective / Community identity
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
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual
Tabom in Bahia
2017
52
‘
Directed by
Juan Diego Diaz
Nilton Pereira
.
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the
South America
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Memory
Migration
Popular Culture
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Vasile Nedea
2009
43
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Directed by
Sjoerd van Grootheest
.
The film tells the story of Vasile Nedea, a Romanian gypsy musician an Amsterdam. Due to his former illegal status there have been times in which he was forced to show his skills whilst busking the
Western Europe
Travellers / Roma
Music / Ethnomusicology