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Films
5 Films
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Year of production
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Festival Prize Category
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films with a digital version
3
short films
1
films available on demand
2
Region
North America
1
South America
1
Southern Africa
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Botswana
1
Brazil
1
France
1
Ghana
1
United States
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Essay film
1
Ethnofiction
1
Family / Kinship
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Labour
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Love
1
Marriage
1
Material Culture
2
Migration
1
Reflexivity
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Trade
1
Directors
Grimshaw, Anna
1
Mai, Nick
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Werbner, Richard
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
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Country of production
France
1
Netherlands
2
United Kingdom
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United States
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Film list
At Low Tide
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
Every day, carrying the simplest of tools, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig for clams on the wide mud flats that stretch far into the bay. It is backbreaking work. But it has
North America
Material Culture
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Caught in Between
2016
56
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The focus is on a leading village elder, John Lelatlhego, a retired Human Resources administrator trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. John gets entangled in the long troubled
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
The Possibility of Spirits
2016
72
‘
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
What is it that you film when you film a spirit? I was brought up to believe that spirits do not exist. Years of research on an afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult taught me the limits of such
South America
Essay film
Religion / Belief / Faith
Reflexivity
Travel (double screen)
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see ‘Travel’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Reflexivity
Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra
2016
37
‘
Directed by
Mara Lin Visser
.
This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife
West Africa
Trade
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans