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Films
6 Films
Series
“0”
x
Year of production
“1997”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
1
Region
Australia
2
Central Asia and Far East
1
South America
1
South Asia
1
West Africa
1
Country
Australia
2
Brazil
1
India
1
Japan
1
Togo
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
History
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Labour
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Love
1
Material Culture
1
Political Activists
1
Possession
1
Public Figure
1
Resettlement
1
Ritual
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Directors
Graham, Trevor
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
MacDougall, David
1
Opipari, Carmen
1
Saltman, Carlyn
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Williams, Jano
1
Series
not set
6
x
Country of production
Australia
2
France
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Year of production
1997
6
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Film list
Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland
1997
52
‘
Directed by
Sylvie Timbert
Carmen Opipari
.
In the divine Afro Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children who introduce and guide us to this world. The children play
South America
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Possession
Ritual
The Blooms of Benjeli: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking
1997
29
‘
Directed by
Carlyn Saltman
.
The filmmaker and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to recreate for the film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. By focusing on the
West Africa
Art / Artists / Artisans
Archival material / Museum displays
History
Material Culture
Link-up Diary
1997
86
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The filmmaker goes on the road with Link-Up, an organisation which re-unites Aboriginal families separated in earlier decades by the New South Wales government. As the film shows, being reunited
Australia
Resettlement
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Shinjuku Boys
1997
54
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Jano Williams
.
A film about love and gender. This film is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men. They make their living by working in a club with
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Love
Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India
1997
63
‘
Directed by
Ulrich Grossenbacher
Damaris Luethi
.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz,
South Asia
Labour
Everyday Life
Film / Photography / Mass media