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Films
2 Films
Keywords
“Art Artists Artisans”
and
“Death”
x
Status
“A”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
1
Region
Melanesia
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Indonesia
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Death
2
x
Ritual
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Forge, Anthony
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Kapon, Eytan
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
not set
1
Country of production
Australia
1
France
1
Year of production
1973
1
2002
1
Status
Film list
Letter to the Dead
2002
62
‘
Directed by
Andre Iteanu
Eytan Kapon
.
The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in
Melanesia
Social Change
Art / Artists / Artisans
Death
Ngarap: fighting over a corpse
1973
17
‘
Directed by
Anthony Forge
.
In 1993, Anthony Forge filmed the cremation of an older woman from an affluent ‘commoner’ family. As her body was moved from her family compound to the cremation tower, men of the ward seized the
South-East Asia
Death
Ritual
Art / Artists / Artisans
Archival material / Museum displays