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Films
12 Films
Keywords
“Race Racism Antiracism”
x
films with a digital version
4
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
5
films available on demand
5
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
2
Caribbean Islands
1
North America
2
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
2
South Asia
1
Southern Africa
1
West Africa
2
Western Europe
3
Country
Anguilla
1
Australia
1
Belgium
2
Brazil
1
Colombia
1
Ethiopia
1
Germany
1
Ghana
1
India
1
Nigeria
1
Sierra Leone
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
2
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
3
Archival materials / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
5
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
7
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
History of Anthropology
2
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Memory
1
Migration
2
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Political Activists
2
Popular Culture
1
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
12
x
Reflexivity
1
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Basu, Paul
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Davies, Sera
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Henley, Paul
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Lopes, André
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Moser, Brian
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
3
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
not set
7
Country of production
Australia
1
Belgium
2
Brazil
1
Germany
2
India
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1971
1
1995
1
2012
1
2014
1
2016
1
2017
2
2018
2
2019
3
Film list
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
Faces Voices
2018
18
‘
Directed by
Paul Basu
Christopher Thomas Allen
.
The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort
West Africa
British-Irish Isles
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
The Last of the Cuiva
1971
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian
South America
Social Change
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Land Rights
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Namatjira Project
2017
87
‘
Directed by
Sera Davies
.
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was
Australia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
New York Just Another City
2019
18
‘
Directed by
André Lopes
Joana Brandão
.
Brazilian Guarani filmmaker Patrícia Ferreira reflects on New York City and Indigenous representation in dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. This film is part of the collected DVD
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Orania
2012
94
‘
Directed by
Tobias Lindner
.
Orania is situated in South Africa’s barren Northern Cape province. All of its 800 inhabitants are white Afrikaners. They live here on private property which was bought in 1991. People of other
Southern Africa
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Social Conflict
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
‘
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Education / Knowledge Transmission
History of Anthropology
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
‘
Decolonising the Archive
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival materials / Museum displays
Archaeology
Education / Knowledge transmission
History of Anthropology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
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
Treasured Moments
2016
33
‘
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
We Are Born to Survive
1995
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Paul Okojie
.
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester’s Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64.
British-Irish Isles
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Public Figure
Where the Clouds End
2014
52
‘
Directed by
Wanphrang Diengdoh
.
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and
South Asia
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity