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Films
14 Films
Keywords
“Tourism Travel Pilgrimage”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
7
short films
6
Region
Central America
2
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
1
Micronesia
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
Scandinavia
1
South Asia
4
South-East Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
Western Europe
1
Country
China
2
Federated States of Micronesia
1
Germany
1
Greece
1
Guatemala
1
India
3
Madagascar
1
Mexico
1
Nepal
1
Norway
1
Sudan
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Environment
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
History
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Inter-religious relations
2
Labour
1
Love
1
Marriage
2
Public Figure
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Social Change
2
Sport
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
14
Trade
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Berg, Julia
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Howes, Arthur
1
MacDonald, Bruce
1
MacDougall, David
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Marcus, Alan
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Picard, David
1
Singer, André
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
6
Sudan Trilogy
1
not set
5
Country of production
India
1
United Kingdom
14
x
United States
1
Year of production
1977
1
1979
1
1987
1
1989
1
1991
1
1998
1
2002
2
2005
1
2008
2
2009
2
2010
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Beautiful Dachau
2008
30
‘
Directed by
Alan Marcus
.
Beautiful Dachau is an experimental documentary that observes streams of visitors to the Dachau concentration camp, now a popular tourist attraction. 800,000 people visit the site annually.
Western Europe
History
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Black Mountain
2008
84
‘
Directed by
Charlotte Whitby-Coles
Amin Hajee
.
A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten – the film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking her PhD
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Inter-religious relations
Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopó
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Bruce MacDonald
.
The documentary shows how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala adapted to changes that took place in the decades before the film was made, when the lake became a favoured spot
Central America
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Harpoons and Heartache
1998
28
‘
Directed by
Bessie Morris
.
Bessie Morris, a Greek-American, portrays the romantic relationships between Greek men and women tourists. She explores the story of Vassilis, a young male bartender in the tourist town of Hania, Crete.
South-East Europe
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Gender Role and Identity
Love
Holy Men and Fools
2005
61
‘
Directed by
Michael Yorke
.
The film narrates the story of Uma Giri, a Swedish woman who has become a Hindu nun, called Uma Giri. She is one of the few western women to be accepted into the most radical order of wandering
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Inter-religious relations
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Kafi’s Story
1979
53
‘
Directed by
Arthur Howes
Amy Hardie
.
Shot in 1989, Kafi’s Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi narrates his own story into a portable tape record as he travels from his village,
North and Northeast Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
Marriage
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
The Last Navigator
1989
50
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to
Micronesia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Infrastructure / Transport
Education / Knowledge Transmission
The Most Admired Man
2002
29
‘
Directed by
Julia Berg
.
‘Wise’? ‘Serene’? ‘A Sage’? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of the ‘Real
South-East Asia
Public Figure
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Photo Wallahs
1991
60
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
This film is an exploration of the cultural and personal meanings of photographs in a hill station in northern India. The ‘photo wallahs’ are the local photographers of Mussoorie, a town which
South Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
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
They Say We’re All Winners
2002
32
‘
Directed by
Mari Finnestad
.
The Zimbabwean girls’ team comes to Norway to take part in the world’s largest kids’ football tournament. The film questions the outcome of this well-intentioned cultural exchange because some of the
Scandinavia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Sport
Collective / Community identity
Uncanny Strangers
2009
46
‘
Directed by
David Picard
.
Uncanny Strangers has been filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar. Through a series of everyday life episodes the film provides insight into the relationships between the
East Africa
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Development projects
Environment
Vendemos Recuerdos
2009
25
‘
Directed by
Carolina Corral Paredes
.
Carlos is an enthusiastic tour guide and Doña Rosa is an indigenous old woman that sells crafts in the market. Both of their life’s works are an effort to provide what inquisitive tourists might
Central America
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Trade
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