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Films
3 Films
Region
“South America”
x
Keywords
“Material Culture”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
1
films available on demand
1
Region
South America
3
x
Country
Chile
1
Colombia
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Development projects
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Labour
1
Material Culture
3
x
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
not set
2
Country of production
Colombia
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Year of production
2008
1
2012
1
2019
1
Film list
75 Grams
2008
31
‘
Directed by
Priscilla Clarissou
.
Nestled below the rugged Chilean peaks of the Andes lies the gold mining town of Andacollo. The town’s remoteness and mining economy has nurtured religious beliefs in the power of the Virgin over the
South America
Labour
Material Culture
Religion / Belief / Faith
Suspension
2019
73
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Simón Uribe
.
This film documents the building of a modern road through the imposing geography of southern Colombia. It brilliantly captures some of the absurdities and contradictions of a construction project
South America
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Rural
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