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Films
3 Films
Keywords
“Social Change”
and
“Tourism Travel Pilgrimage”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
South Asia
2
Country
China
1
India
1
Nepal
1
Keywords
Labour
1
Marriage
1
Rural
1
Social Change
3
x
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
3
x
Directors
Vinken, Polly
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
not set
1
Country of production
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1977
1
2008
1
2010
1
Film list
The Golden Beach
2008
58
‘
Directed by
Hasse Wester
.
A small group of farmers belonging to the Halakki Gowda tribe live near a small beach in a valley in southern India. When the Swedish film maker Hasse Wester was first there twenty years ago the
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Rural
Social Change
Sherpas of Nepal
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Pattie Winter
.
Thami is a village 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas in the Kingdom of Nepal. As the film’s opening shots illustrate, in a type of filmic short-hand, Thami is composed of a patchwork of individual
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Labour
Marriage
Social Change
Views from Heavenly Lake
2010
26
‘
Directed by
Polly Vinken
.
Since the beginning of the Mao era in 1949, populations that were once nomadic, isolated by miles of desert and mountains across the Tian Shan ranges, are now becoming highly sought after objects of
Central Asia and Far East
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Social Change