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Films
12 Films
Series
“0”
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Year of production
“2018”
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films with a digital version
5
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
5
films available on demand
8
Region
East Africa
1
South America
2
South Asia
5
Southern Africa
1
Western Mediterranean
2
not set
1
Country
Botswana
1
Brazil
1
Chile
1
India
4
Italy
1
Kenya
1
Pakistan
1
Spain
1
not set
1
Keywords
Animation
1
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Children / Young people
3
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
3
Development projects
1
Environment
3
Essay film
1
Ethnofiction
1
Everyday Life
2
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Food / Water
1
Gender Role and Identity
4
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Internet
1
LGBTQI*
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Love
2
Marriage
1
Material Culture
1
Memory
3
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
4
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Research methods
1
Resettlement
1
Rural
2
Sex / Sexuality
1
Directors
Akin, Dorcas
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Kharel, Dipesh
1
MacDougall, David
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Ndinya, June
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Storaas, Frode
1
Werbner, Richard
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
Series
not set
12
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Country of production
Argentina
1
Chile
1
Germany
1
Iceland
1
India
3
Italy
1
Kenya
1
Netherlands
1
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
2018
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Film list
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
‘
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Atieno
2018
64
‘
Directed by
June Ndinya
Effie Awino
Ruth Njoki
Lavine Atieno
Dorcas Akin
.
Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl
East Africa
Health / Healthcare / Healing
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Ethnofiction
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Sex / Sexuality
Breaking the Yard
2018
21
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
"Breaking-the-Yard" documents the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
The Child’s Eye
2018
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in
South Asia
Children / Young people
Informant-researcher relationship
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Even Asteroids Are Not Alone
2018
17
‘
Directed by
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
.
Eve Online is a computer game in which players mine, trade and fight their way through computer-generated galaxies. Whilst computer game aficionados are often depicted as isolated, this game is
Internet
IT WAS TOMORROW
2018
53
‘
Student
Directed by
Alexandra D’onofrio
.
After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men – Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed – are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to
Western Mediterranean
Animation
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Life Story / Life History
Memory
Migration
Research methods
Participatory / Collaborative methods
A Kali Temple Inside Out
2018
83
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
Frode Storaas
.
Religious boundaries in India are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as news media lead us to believe. This film portrays everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in the city of Kanpur,
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Knots and Holes. An Essay Film on the Life of Nets.
2018
74
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
A singular anthropological essay film that observes the various nets we find across different contexts in Bahia (from fishing nets to delicate nets of lace), and the emotions and sensations
South America
Essay film
Reflexivity
Love
Paani: of women and water
2018
22
‘
Student
Directed by
Costanza Burstin
.
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in
South Asia
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Rural
Everyday Life
Tara’s footprint
2018
70
‘
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Georgina Barreiro
.
Tara’s Footprint skilfully conjures the atmosphere of Khechuperi, a village in the Himalayas in north eastern India. Eschewing standard exposition the film follows four young siblings as they go
South Asia
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Everyday Life
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Rural
This is My Face
2018
57
‘
Student
Directed by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living
South America
LGBTQI*
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Health / Health care / Healing
Gender Role and Identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Life Story / Life History
Art / Artists / Artisans
Tindaya Variations
2018
40
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon
.
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) is more than a mountain. It was a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura; later, its rock was quarried and sold for ornamental
Western Mediterranean
Archival material / Museum displays
Art / Artists / Artisans
Environment
Material Culture
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Archaeology