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La Ricerca Folklorica (No. 3 (Apr. 1981) - Antropologia visiva. Il Cinema

2012-02-10T06:23:00.000-08:00

Artículos incluidos / Articles included:

-Etnografia e cinema - Jean Rouch
-I fondamenti di un'antropologia filmica - Claudine de France
-Il documentario etnografico demartiniano - Clara Gallini
-Il Super 8 (un taccuino visivo) - Italo Sordi
-La cinematografia etnografica - Paul Hockings
-L'intervista e il documentario etnografico - Bruno Pianta
-Pratica e teoria nel film etnografico italiano (prime osservazioni) - Diego Carpitella

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La Ricerca Folklorica (No. 2 (Oct. 1980) - Antropologia visiva: La fotografia

2012-02-10T02:16:00.000-08:00

Artículos incluidos / Articles included:

-Apprendimento dell'antropologia visiva - John Collier & Bruno Pianta
-Fotografia (tra documento e interpretazione) - Enzo Minervini
-Fotografia e disegno nella ricerca etnografica -Giuseppe Sebesta
-Franco Pinna e la fotografia etnografica - Diego Carpitella
-Il fotografo e l'antropologo - Ferdinando Scianna
-Il gesto del narratore e la sua immagine - Geneviève Calame Griaule & Edmond Bernus
-La fotografia come metodo antropologico - Carole Counihan & Italo Sordi
-La ricerca a prova d'idiota - Bruno Pianta
-L'antropologia visiva in una disciplina di parole - Margaret Mead & Paola Capriolo
-Note sulla specificità d'uso della multivisione - Arno Hooft Graafland

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Recopilación de articulos de Jay Ruby

2012-02-08T23:47:00.000-08:00

Artículos incluidos / Articles included:

-A Future for Ethnographic Film
-AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF THE FILMS OF ROBERT GARDNER
-SPEAKING FOR, SPEAKING ABOUT, SPEAKING WITH, OR SPEAKING ALONGSIDE - AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND DOCUMENTARY DILEMMA
-The Image Mirrored - Reflexivity and the Documentary Film
-Visual Anthropology—Film as a Means of Presenting Man

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Recopilación de articulos de Jean Rouch

2012-02-07T02:40:00.000-08:00

Artículos incluidos / Articles included:

-Of Mimicry and White Man (A Psychoanalysis of Jean Rouch's Les maîtres fous)
-Jean Rouch Talks about His Films to John Marshall and John W. Adams
-Jean Rouch et la naissance de l'anthropologie visuelle (Brève histoire du Comité international)
-Jean Rouch - Cinéma et Ethnographie
-Ciné-Transe -The Vision of Jean Rouch (An Interview)

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Recopilación de articulos de David MacDougall

2012-02-03T05:38:00.001-08:00

Artículos incluidos / Articles included:

-Ethnographic Film - Failure and Promise

-From Ethnography to Metaphor - Recent Films from David and Judith MacDougall

-Prospects of the Ethnographic Film

-Radically Empirical Documentary - An Interview with David and Judith MacDougall

-Reframing Ethnographic Film (A Conversation with David MacDougall and Judith)

-Renewing Ethnographic Film - Is Digital Video Changing the Genre

-Unprivileged Camera Style

-When Less Is Less (The Long Take in Documentary)

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"Excuse Me, Everything Is Not All Right": On Ethnography, Film, and Representation: An Interview with Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke

2012-02-03T02:13:00.000-08:00

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Himmel und Erde - Michael Pilz (1983)

2012-02-02T11:50:00.000-08:00

Duración: 136
Idioma: Alemán con subtitulos en Ingles incrustados.
País: Austria
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084076/

Director: Michael Pilz

Description: Michael Pilz's 285-minute Himmel and Erde is an essay film or an ethnographic documentary. It contemplates the finite lot of individuals as part of a continuum of human experience in the natural world.

Himmel und Erde, translatable as Heaven and Earth, was recorded between 1979 and 1982. The documentary invites the viewer to contemplate the disruptive effects of technology on economic and social ties through circumscribed vignettes of village life which are oft repeated either as recycled footage or variations on a theme. The repeated vignettes explore the village school and schoolchildren, the farm and farm life, logging and road building, and the social life of the tavern and church.
The schoolyard boys dream of being mechanics and electricians and imagine one day shipping their fathers off to retirement homes, their fathers lament the demise of farming as an economically viable vocation, and the community as a whole mourns those families compelled to move away to seek livelihoods elsewhere...

I'd say, if somebody is interested in what is autentcity, this is it. In a very poetic way: The language, the photography, even the movement is put in a way one can feel the position of the human beeing between heaven and earth, between nature and technique and alienation and originality – and many jolly moments.

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Muchas gracias a Toternussbaum!
Thanks a lot to Toternussbaum!

Karel Plicka - Zem spieva (1933)

2012-01-31T07:56:00.000-08:00

The film Zem spieva from 1933 can be called a memorable film poem, which distinguishes itself through the capturing of extraordinary ethnographic values, especially Slovak folk traditions, which were reflected in songs and dances, daily traditions or even children's songs and games. It's an artistically composed record of folk traditions, games, rites, dances and festivities from early Spring to late Fall in a Slovakia of the 30s. In it's time it was a totally unique document unlike anything else before filmed. It's production was primarily made by the Lloyd company, but it was also assisted by the Matica Slovenská and even received support from the then president of the ČSR Tomáš Gariggue Masaryk. (official distributors text)

The Anthropology of Art: A Reader - Howard Morphy & Morgan Perkins

2012-01-31T01:47:00.000-08:00

Para Marina ;)

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times.

* Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art.

* Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times.

* Enhances readers' appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.

Foundations and framing the discipline (articles by Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, William Fagg, Gregory Bateson, Raymond Firth and Anthony Forge); Primitivism, art, and artifacts (William Rubin, Arthur C. Danto, James Clifford, Sally Price, Craig Clunas, Susan Vogel, Alfred Gell); Aesthetics across cultures (Robert Farris Thompson, Heather Lechtman, Jeremy Coote, Howard Morphy); Form, style, and meaning (Nancy D. Munn, Abraham Rosman, Paula G. Rubel, Aldona Jonaitis, David M. Guss, Michael O´Hanlon); Marketing culture (Nelson H.H. Graburn); Ruth B. Phillips; Christopher B. Steiner); Contemporary stists (Nicholas Thomas, Fred Myers, Gordon Bennett, Charlotte Towsend-Gault, Jolene Rickard).

Until the recent past, the study of art remained on the margins of anthropology research, due in part to the narrow concept of what constituted 'art' in western societies. Today, the central place of art as the focus for anthropological research, its inclusion in museum collections and its pivotal role in display underpins the new-found acceptance of its relevance as a category for cross-cultural analyses. Such studies can provide the means to develop an understanding of the art within our own society alongside that of other places and times.

The Anthropology of Art is the seventh in a series of international readers published by Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Each edited volume aims to draw readings from the most significant scholarly work in each sub-discipline of anthropology — in this case the study of art. Volumes in the series provide both a foundation and overview for students, researchers and general readers, introduce theoretical debates, and illuminate the new directions in which anthropology is moving today.

As is customary, the back cover of this volume is emblazoned with 'bites' of lavish praise garnered from pre-publication reviews, including such phrases as 'near-perfect book', 'essential reader' and 'superb compilation'. I therefore opened the book with great expectations. In the comprehensive introduction, the editors place the study of art against a historical overview of anthropology and art history studies, tackle the hoary issue of appropriate cross-cultural definitions of 'art', the universality of aesthetics, and identify some of the major debates and issues within the discipline. Among the most recent changes to which the editors draw attention, and of particular significance to many readers of reCollections, are the ways that altered anthropological views on the study of art have impacted on the role of museums and art galleries as repositories of cultural artefacts. Such institutions are now more commonly perceived as 'valued repositories of cultural and historical archives', allowing for 'a reanalysis of contact history, colonial processes, changes in material culture and so on' (p. 20). Further, such collections have enabled Indigenous peoples to 'rediscover their pasts' and challenge stereotypical images of the present (p. 20). The editors identify a number of American museums where such changes of view have led to cross-cultural collaboration, resulting in the incorporation of Indigenous systems of knowledge into present-day museum practice. The increasing engagement of contemporary artists with institutional staff and researchers also differs from past practice, where objects were collected without the participation of the producer. This fresh approach provides broader potential for those studying the objects and artefacts produced.

Divided into six parts, the 30 chapters that make up the volume are drawn from previously published books and papers. Each chapter has been judiciously chosen to illustrate the salient points outlined by the editors in the brief essay that introduces each part. In this way the reader, whether novice or expert, is guided through the following chapters and is more able to identify the relevant theoretical issues and concepts covered in each paper.

Part I, titled 'Foundations and framing the discipline', includes classic readings that illustrate the scope of early anthropological approaches to the study of art. Chapters by Franz Boas on the art of Indians of the Pacific Coast of North America, Claude Lévi-Strauss on Asian and American art, and Raymond Firth on the art of the Tikopia in the Solomon Islands also reflect issues pertinent to the wider anthropological studies of that period. While some of the assumptions and theoretical approaches adopted may seem outmoded today, it is on the shoulders of such scholars that the discipline stands.

The compilation of chapters in Part II, 'Primitivism, art, and artifacts', is selected from more recent publications, but addresses issues that have remained central to the study and display of art throughout the twentieth century. Based on specific exhibitions, the authors explore the tension between the conceptualisation of objects as either art or artefact, the relationship between form and function (e.g. chapters by Susan Vogel and Alfred Gell) and the juxtaposition of modern art alongside ethnographic collections. Arthur C Danto's and James Clifford's contributions highlight the influence that museum and gallery curators can exercise in moulding the perceptions of their audiences by the ways they conceptualise and display material culture.

In Part III, 'Aesthetics across cultures', Morphy suggests that the term aesthetics implies a scale of judgement within a society: an awareness of which aspects of material culture might affect the senses. In the case of the Yolngu of Arnhem Land, the qualities of shimmering brilliance in a painting are deemed pleasing, while for the Yoruba of Subsaharan Africa, criteria on which sculptures are judged include delicacy, roundedness and ephebism — the depiction of people in their prime (see chapter by Robert Farris Thompson). The form of material culture assessed for an aesthetic criterion is extended by Jeremy Coote to include 'everyday visions' of societies otherwise poor in objects more commonly selected for analysis. Coote reviews aesthetic perceptions of cattle, central to the economic and spiritual worlds of the Nilotes from Sudan. The Nilotes' evaluations will resonate with anyone familiar with the pithy discussions of seasoned, stud cattle breeders from the Australian bush.

Part IV, 'Form, style, and meaning', covers areas fundamental to the study of art, whether it be from an art historian's perspective or that of the archaeologist or anthropologist. The editors have astutely selected readings to illustrate a variety of approaches that can be adopted in the analysis of these aspects of art. While emphasising the importance of studying form in the context of its production (e.g. chapters by Nancy Munn and David Guss), the editors also flag the value of analyses of museum collections. Formal analyses provide an opportunity to broaden studies beyond the limitations imposed by fieldwork, and can address questions of chronological or stylistic change not otherwise evident.

In Part V, 'Marketing culture', Ruth Phillips, in a chapter reminiscent of several in Part II, explores the ways in which American Indian curiosities and souvenirs have traditionally been displayed in museums, and concludes that the form and content of such exhibitions reflects the value system of the colonising society, rather than that of the producers. Each of the authors in Part V addresses some part of the complex and sometimes indirect interplay between artist, dealer and the ultimate consumer, whether individual collector, tourist or institution. Such interplay, especially when it is economically driven, frequently results in the adoption of new materials or the modification of form, as artists strive to balance the aesthetics of the purchaser with their own.

The final chapters presented in Part VI, 'Contemporary artists', elaborate and draw together themes introduced in the earlier parts of the volume, but generally focus on today's Indigenous artists who engage with the western art establishment. Such cross-cultural interaction is mediated, manipulated and motivated in complex ways. Fred Myers investigates the ways that the acrylic paintings of the Pintupi people from Australia's Western Desert, have come to represent 'Aboriginal culture' despite being produced in non-indigenous materials. In contrast, Gordon Bennett, an Aboriginal artist, critiques the stereotypical visual imagery used to create a concept of Aboriginality.

After reading the volume, I share the enthusiasm of earlier reviewers. It is indeed a superb compilation of papers: an essential reader for anthropologists, art historians, museum and gallery professionals, and anyone with an interest in art. The editors have presented a comprehensive overview of the sub-discipline in a format that guides the reader through the major issues. With art now firmly established as an area of anthropological study, it is a timely contribution — a near perfect book.

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Malinowski e la fotograﬁa (L’occhio di Malinowski - Antonello Ricci)

2012-01-30T02:03:00.000-08:00

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De fotografía y montañismo o de una amistad sobre el hielo. Fernando Lipkau y Juan Guzmán en los volcanes de México

2012-01-30T01:56:00.000-08:00

RESUMEN:
A partir de la íntima visión de su hija menor, se analiza la mirada y la entrañable amistad de Fernando Lipkau Echeverría y Juan Guzmán, fotógrafos y montañistas refugiados en el México de los años 40 ́s a 60 ́s. Lipkau, más conocido entre los montañistas como “la Araña”, llegó a México alrededor de 1943 y fue uno de los grandes guías de montaña entre los españoles recién llegados, así como espectacular fotógrafo de los volcanes, pero fue además fotografiado en acción en la montaña por su mejor amigo, Hans Gutman Guster, o Juan Guzmán, quién se transformó en uno de los fotógrafos más famosos del fotoperiodismo mexicano, en revistas ilustradas internacionales como Time y Life. A partir de una comparación de estilos fotográficos entre ambos y del análisis de su experiencia en la montaña mexicana, o bien del análisis fenomenológico de las imágenes de montaña en ambos fotógrafos, uno muy conocido y otro famoso como escalador y alpinista y dueño de una de las tiendas de fotografía más reconocidas en la ciudad de México, Lipkau Fotostat, se plantea la importancia de estas imágenes en la historia del montañismo en México.

Palabras clave: Ascenciones en Alta Montaña, Fotografía, Experiencia y fenomenología de la montaña en México, años 40 ́s-60s ́, Deportes extremos o turismo de aventura y fotografia.

ABSTRACT:
From the intimate vision of his young daughter, we analyze the look and the close friendship of Fernando Lipkau Echeverría and Juan Guzmán, photographers and mountaineers refugees in Mexico in the years 40’s-50’s. Lipkau, better known among the mountaineers as “la Araña”, he arrived in Mexico around 1943 and he was one of the greatest mountain guides among the Spanish newcomers, and he was a phenomenal photographer of volcanoes and moreover he was photographed in the mountain by his best friend, Hans Gutman Guster, or Juan Guzmán, who became one of the most popular photographers in the Mexican photojournalism, writing in illustrated magazines. By comparing their photographic styles, analyzing their experiences in the Mexican mountains and making a phenomenological analysis of the images of mountains made by these photographers -one is very well-known, and the other is famous for his work as climber and mountaineer, who also had one of the best shops of photography in Mexico City- we consider the importance of these images in the history of mountaineering in Mexico.

Keywords: Climbing in high mountain, Photography, Experience and phenemelogy of mountains in Mexico, years 40’s-60’s, Extreme sports or adventure tourism and photography.

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Video Vision: Changing the Culture of Social Science Research

2012-01-29T04:35:00.000-08:00

In recent years, the use of video has soared spurring debate about the body-camera-environment connection and other concepts a social scientist considering this research tool will face. In this volume we zoom in on ethics, methodology, and analysis, while also zooming out on a wider praxis. The time is here to collectively identify our experiences, methods, and knowledge of video as a research methodology. This compilation of work unpacks the use of video as a research tool. Often through the interdisciplinary lens of environmental psychology as well as anthropology, sociology, and the broader field of psychology, fascinating angles of the use of participant and naturalistic observations are captured along with that of participatory action research. Strategies such as recording video messages, the creation of student informed videos, and facilitating videos taken by or edited by research participants are coupled with methods for obtaining Institutional Review Board approvals, analysis, development of theory or action, and presentation. This volume presents thought provoking, cutting-edge research that is both accessible to students and useful for social scientists who are yearning for a more accurate way to collect, analyze, and present data in our hyper-technical, visual, and competitive world.

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El Otro Cine (Metropolis RTVE - 27 de Enero)

2012-01-29T04:18:00.000-08:00

PINCHA AQUÍ PARA VERLO.

Todo empezó con la muerte de la Realidad

La Televisión ha matado a la Realidad. El asesinato se cometió el 16 de septiembre de 1999 cuando la Realidad entró a concursar en la casa del primer Gran Hermano de la historia y acabó enrollándose con el Espectáculo. Desde entonces siempre se les ha visto juntos: yendo al cine, en los platós de los programas del corazón o en los telediarios donde las noticias de guerra parecen videojuegos o películas de Hollywood. El problema de la realidad, como dice Michael Moore, no es la falta de compromiso del cine de ficción, sino el excesivo compromiso del periodismo actual con la ficción.
Pero si los telediarios han acabado pareciendo thrillers de acción política, las películas de ficción han acabado pareciendo anuncios: se han convertido en unos envoltorios brillantes llenos de colores chillones y frases de marketing. Dentro del cine comercial no hay nada: ni preguntas ni respuestas, sólo ruido.

Como dice Patricio Guzmán (productor, director y guionista de documentales): “Un país sin cine documental es como una familia sin álbum de fotos”. Existen cineastas que aún piensan que coger una cámara es colocar un signo de interrogación. Lanzar una pregunta. Quizás no como profesores o policías, sino como poetas perplejos ante un contenedor en llamas o como paseantes perdidos dentro de una ciudad confusa: ¿por favor me podría indicar la salida?

Hacia el documental
Al rodar y preguntar, una nueva generación de directoras y realizadores están protagonizando uno de los momentos más brillantes del cine actual, confirmado a través de la Concha de Oro a Isaki Lacuesta en el pasado Festival de San Sebastián que se vivió como una celebración colectiva. Pero hasta que esos Pasos dobles caminaron por la Kursaal, el género documental ha tenido que caminar por los caminos más impracticables de este país. Un delirio artístico dentro de ese paréntesis de 40 años de silencio, dictadura y documentales del NODO.

Con la llegada de la democracia empiezan las primeras preguntas. Asesinos como el de Pedralbes, iconos gays como la Ocaña, Numax presenta… de Joaquin Jordá, En construcción de Guerín. Una rarezas que dependían más del esfuerzo personal que de una producción asentada.

Multiplicando las miradas
Si la democracia política va a permitir que se hagan preguntas a la realidad, la democracia tecnológica va a permitir que esas preguntas se multipliquen: cargados con una cámara digital, cineastas y directoras van a ver el documental como un modo de escritura creativa cinematográfica. Su objetivo desvela un mundo nunca visto:

Algunos directores descubren que su propia familia esconde un gran drama que remite a la memoria colectiva. Otras ruedan en países lejanos o situaciones extremas.
Algunas quieren mostrar el documental como obra en construcción, dejando ver la cámara y las conversaciones del equipo. Otros ruedan películas crípticas, cerradas sobre sí mismas.

Algunos hacen poesía del archivo y nos descubren el valor de vidas pasadas. Otras filman su mundo inmediato, sacando belleza de las paradas de autobús.
Algunas se pasan años rodando pacientemente y otros piensan que el tema es tan sólo una excusa y se lanzan a la calle a grabar como quien pregunta por una dirección.
En conclusión, todas esas voces tan distintas están unidas por la experimentación y la efervescencia pero también las complicaciones para que las obras encuentren a sus espectadores. Los problemas van desde la escasez de salas con proyección digital, hasta una difusión mínima que les condena a la invisibilidad (una verdadera censura empresarial) pasando por los recortes de presupuestos que afectan a uno de sus pocos escaparates, los festivales de cine documental, como recientemente ha ocurrido con el Festival Punto de Vista de Navarra. Sin embargo, mientras las complicaciones aumentan, los presupuestos menguan y las recaudaciones descienden, los documentales se multiplican. Algunos datos:

En los últimos 10 años se han hecho en España 218 documentales, es decir, un 18.7 % de la producción total (es el tercer género en número de películas).
Esos documentales logrado 12.4 millones de euros en recaudación, es decir, tan sólo un 1.41 % de la taquilla total.

Cada documental recauda por media 56.972 euros , lo que dividido por 8 euros que vale cada entrada, nos sale aproximadamente a uno 7000 espectadores por cada película.
¿Qué significan estas cifras tan contradictorias? Que el documental de creación se está formando en los márgenes de la industria, en un campo en común con el videoarte, el diario digital, la obra poética amateur, el periodismo ciudadano o el arte abstracto. Es decir, que cuando hablamos del nuevo documental no estamos hablando de un género que se pueda vender con un slogan de detergente (“de los productores de…”), sino de una nueva sensibilidad de la mirada cinematográfica. De una mirada que es capaz de adaptarse a la luz de la realidad y a la oscuridad de la sala de cine.

Transcultural cinema

2012-01-24T07:18:00.000-08:00

David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way, To Live with Herds, A Wife among Wives, Takeover, Photo Wallahs, and Tempus de Baristas. As a theorist, he articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology, and is one of the few documentary filmmakers who writes extensively on these concerns. The essays collected here address, for instance, the difference between films and written texts and between the position of the filmmaker and that of the anthropological writer.In fact, these works provide an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects, such as point-of-view and subjectivity, reflexivity, the use of subtitles, and the role of the cinema subject. Refreshingly free of jargon, each piece belongs very much to the tradition of the essay in its personal engagement with exploring difficult issues. The author ultimately disputes the view that ethnographic filmmaking is merely a visual form of anthropology, maintaining instead that it is a radical anthropological practice, which challenges many of the basic assumptions of the discipline of anthropology itself. Although influential among filmmakers and critics, some of these essays were published in small journals and have been until now difficult to find. The three longest pieces, including the title essay, are new.

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Rethinking Visual Anthropology

2012-01-18T01:47:00.000-08:00

Otro clásico más!

For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope of visual anthropology is far broader, encompassing the analysis of still photography, television, electronic representation, art, ritual, and material culture. Since anthropology involves the representation of one culture or segment of society to another, the authors argue, an understanding of the nature of representational processes across cultures is essential. This book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover the entire range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, the study of landscape, the anthropology of ritual, the anthropology of media and communication, the history of anthropology, and art practice and production. Also included are a wide-ranging introduction and a concluding overview. The book should be of interest to anthropologists - even those who have never picked up a camera - and also to those concerned with cross-cultural visual representation in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, and communication theory.

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2012-01-18T01:39:00.000-08:00

Volvemos a la carga, tras el parón navideño. Un clásico!

First published in 1967, Visual Anthropology has become a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. This completely revised and expanded edition brings the technical information up to date and includes the insights the Colliers have gained from nearly thirty-five additional years of collective teaching and research experience since the first edition.

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Bibliografia Básica de Antropologia Visual - Livros e artigos

2011-12-13T05:15:00.000-08:00

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2011-11-28T00:48:00.000-08:00

JEAN ROUCH from filmeetnografico on Vimeo.

ANTROPOLOGÍA VISUAL BRASIL

2011-11-26T01:36:00.000-08:00

A Antropologia Visual no Brasil - Clarice Peixoto

A Antropologia Visual já tem história para contar - Clarice Peixoto

Panorama da socio-antropologia audiovisual, um close-up na exclusão social brasileira - Clarice Peixoto

Manoro - Brillante Mendoza (2006)

2011-11-22T07:52:00.000-08:00

Duración: 74 mins
Idioma: Dialecto Aeta (con subtitulos en ingles incrustados)
País: Filipinas

Director: Brillante Mendoza

Synopsis:

During the 2004 presidential election, Jonalyn, fresh from her grade school graduation rites, teaches middle-aged and elderly Aetas to read and write, enabling them to cast their votes for the election. To her dismay, her grandfather prefers to hunt wild boar to feed every member of the Aeta community, thus, missing his chance to exercise his right to vote. Months later, the election results are put to suspicion due to alleged rampant cheating.

Brillante Mendoza (n. 30 de Julio de 1960) es un director de cine filipino. Ha dirigido nueve films desde 2005. Ganó un premio al Mejor Director por su película Kinatay.1 Su último film, Lola, ganó el premio a mejor película del Festival de Cine de Dubai.

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O Paradigma do Documentário (António Campos, cineasta)

2011-11-15T08:51:00.000-08:00

O Paradigma do Documentário
TESIS DOCTORAL DE Manuela Penafria SOBRE EL DOCUMENTALISTA PORTUGES ANTÓNIO CAMPOS, UNO DE LOS PRIMEROS EN AFRONTAR EL MEDIO DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA ANTROPOLÓGICA.

El indice de la publicación es el siguiente:

Preâmbulo 1
Introdução 3
1 Cinema português: o caso de António Campos 7
2 O Cinema de António Campos 19
2.1 O documentário como experimentação . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2 Os dois primeiros filmes e a adaptação . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.3 Uma missão a cumprir: filmar o presente . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.4 A poesia com os pés na terra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
2.5 Duas notas: o filme etnográfico e os documentários sobre Arte . . 69
2.6 Documentarismo: o paradigma do documentário . . . . . . . . . 77
Conclusão 84
Bibliografia 89
Filmografia 104
A Anexos 1
A.1 Depoimentos de António Campos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A.2 Outros depoimentos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A.3 Entrevistas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
A.4 Bibliografia anotada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
A.4.1 Catálogos / Obras Gerais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
A.4.2 Jornais e Revistas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
A.5 Filmografia cronológica, prémios e exibições . . . . . . . . . . . 198
A.6 Filmografia classificada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
A.7 Documentários sobre Arte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
A.8 Filmes disponíveis para visionamento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
A.9 Financiamento dos filmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
A.10 Prémios e distinções ao cineasta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Trance and Dance in Bali - Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead (1952)

2011-10-02T14:04:00.000-07:00

Duración: 22
Idioma: Ingles
País: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221658/

Director: Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead

Synopsis:
Records a performance of the Balinese ceremonial kris (dagger) dance-drama, which depicts the never-ending struggle between witch (death-dealing) and dragon (life-protecting), as it was given in the village of Pagoetan in the late 1930s. The dancers experience violent trance seizures, turn their krises against their breasts without injury, and are restored to consciousness with incense and holy water. Narrated by Margaret Mead against a background of Balinese music. From the Character Formation in Different Cultures series. Produced by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead

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Black Harvest - Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly (1992)

2011-10-02T13:58:00.000-07:00

Duración: 90
Idioma: Ingles / Papua con subtitulos en frances
País: Francia, Papua Nueva Guinea, Reino Unido, Australia
IMDb Link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0103817/

Director: Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly

Synopsis:
Black Harvest, the final film in the Highlands Trilogy, charts the progress of Joe Leahy in convincing the Ganiga tribespeople to join him in a coffee growing venture. He provides the money and the expertise; they supply the land and labor. But on the eve of success, the world coffee price collapses and tribal warfare erupts in the valley. Always suspect because of his mixed-race status, Joe is in deep trouble with the tribespeople when his promises of riches fail to materialize. As he organizes to emigrate with his family to Australia, he is a saddened man with an uncertain future.

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There Were Seven Simeons - Herz Frank & Vladimir Eisner (1989)

2011-09-19T14:14:00.000-07:00

Duración: 91 min
Idioma: Ruso (con subtitulos en Ingles incrustados)
País: Unión Sovietica
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169404/

The famous family jazz group from Irkutsk. Their wild attempt to break away from the USSR to the West by hijacking a plane. And - the tragic end.

First we'll see "Seven Simeons" documentary Frank made in 1985. about the jazz group consisted of 7 brothers, named by the skaska fairytale. He introduces us in their lives through showing us they hard work at their farm, they relationship with mother and between each other, their music and their success.
Then we'll see "There Were Seven Simeons", documentary made after the catastrophy that shook the whole world. He follows their trial, occassionally jumping back in their past to explain how it led to the fatal decision.
Although the accent here is on a family tragedy, directors also point out that the fatal end could be seen as a revolt, a signal to the totalitarian one-party regime, whose citizens hear so many "Dont's", while the life says "Yes, You can!"

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Arte funerario popular de Ecuador

2011-09-02T08:04:00.000-07:00

La Revista Sans Soleil ha lanzado un nuevo foto-ensayo. Con motivo del próximo especial “Relaciones entre imagen y muerte” la fotógrafa Birte Pedersen presentara una nueva entrega cada mes sobre su trabajo en relación al arte funerario popular de Ecuador.

El foto-ensayo ENTRADA AL CIELO está compuesto por doce entregas temáticas, seleccionadas de una colección de actualmente tres mil fotos, recopiladas en cien cementerios de todo Ecuador, en el transcurso de los últimos quince años.

http://birtepedersen.revista-sanssoleil.com/

Hasta la fecha se han publicado 3 entregas:

LA NUEVA MORADA

LOS ANGELITOS VAN AL CIELO

EL CAPITÁN NO SUELTA EL TIMÓN

2011-09-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

PROLOGO de "Las coplas del Carnaval y la sociedad Gaditana (Crítica, sexualidad y creatividad en Andalucía)" escrito por Jerome Mintz en 1997. Y traducido por la Asociación "Brezo y Castañuela" de Benalup-Casas Viejas en el 2008.

Margaret Mead and Samoa - Frank Heimans (1988)

2011-08-30T00:19:00.000-07:00

Duración: 52 min
Idioma: English
País: USA

Director: Frank Heimans
Cast:
Margaret Mead (Archive footage)
Derek Freeman
Catherine Bateson
Lola Romanucci-Ross
Marc Swartz
Tim O'Meara
Phyllis Grosskurth
Jane Howard

Description: In 1926, Margaret Mead, then a 23 year old Columbia University graduate, arrived in Samoa to carry out her study on the life of a Polynesian Island group. Her direction was to conclude whether nature or nurture was the predominant factor in determining the behaviour of the islands' inhabitants. During the seven months she was there, Margaret began her now famous book, Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she describes and idyllic culture free of the stresses of adolescence; a place of promiscuity, harmony and free love. the book gripped a generation of Americans and had a profound effect on future generations.In 1940, another 23 year old anthropology student, Derek Freeman, arrived in Samoa. As a fervent believer in Mead's Samoa, he awaited the island paradise whose description had so captivated him. Instead he encountered a puritanical and aggressive society. This perplexed him and for the next 40 years Freemand disproved Mead's theory, resulting in the publication of his book Margaret Mead and Samoa. The resulting conflict became the greatest crisis in anthropology and has made Professor Freeman a 'cause celebre'.

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Jerome Mintz

2011-08-28T08:58:00.000-07:00

“Professor Mintz . . . produced six films about tradition and change in Andalusia, Spain. One, ''Carnaval de Pueblo,'' appeared on the Discovery Channel in 1988. He was born in Brooklyn, graduated from Brooklyn College and received a master's from City University of New York and a Ph.D. from Indiana University..”
— The New York Times

Jerome R. Mintz was a professor of anthropology and Jewish studies at Indiana University. He earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College, an M.A. from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. Mintz received the National Jewish Book Award in 1993 for "Hasidic People: A Place in the New World." Mintz produced 6 films on tradition and change in Andalusia, Spain.

Jerome Richard Mintz nace en el seno de una familia de trabajadores inmigrantes judíos. Estudia en la Facultad de Brooklyn y se doctora en 1961 en Antropología por la Universidad de Indiana, donde desarollará su vida docente y profesional.

En 1960 decide viajar a Bilbao junto a su familia para estudiar la religión en la guerra civil española, siguiendo así la estela de otros antropologos centroeuropeos y anglosajones (Stanley Brandes, Pitt-Rivers, John Corbin, James W. Fernandez o David Greenwood) interesados en las sociedades mediterráneas.

En 1965, con la decisión ya tomada de volverse a EE.UU, visita Andalucía. Antes de su regreso hace escala en Benalup de Sidonia (antigua Casas Viejas), donde permanece durante unos años y desarrolla una parte fundamental de su vida investigadora.
Fruto de su investigación en Andalucía son las obras “Los anarquistas de Casas Viejas”, dedicada al estudio de los llamados “sucesos de Casas Viejas”, sus antecedentes y consecuencias, y “Las coplas del Carnaval y la sociedad Gaditana”, referido al análisis de la significación de estos rituales festivos en el contexto social y político del último cuarto de siglo en Cádiz.

Su obra gráfica es igualmente prolija: miles de fotografias y seis documentales donde se testimonia la vida cotidiana de los hombres y mujeres jornaleros y artesanos de la Andalucía de los años sesenta y setenta.

La obra de Jerome Mintz contó con la aprobación y el reconocimiento de gran parte de la sociedad norteamericana, recibiendo en su trayectoria el prestigio de sus propios compañeros de la Fundación Nacional para las Humanidades, la Sociedad de Filosofía Americana, el Consejo Americano de Sociedades de Sabios, el Consejo de Humanidades de Indiana, la Fundación Ford, la Fundación Guggenheim, la Fundacion Lilly, la Fundación Littauer, la Fundación Wenner Gren para la Investigación de Estudios Antropologícos y el Centro para la Nueva Televisión.

Cuatro de sus peliculas obtuvieron galardones, dos de ellas de la Sociedad para la Antropología Visual y dos de la Asociación de Lenguas Modernas. Una película, “Carnaval de Andalucía”, fue presentada en el Discovery Channel en 1998.
Es autor también de “Un lugar en el Nuevo Mundo”, un estudio de la población jasídica en el área de Nueva York. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nacional del Libro Judío por sus obras.

(Biografía extraída del catalogo de la exposición de fotografías de Jerome Mintz en Benalup-Casas Viejas; “Los bares de antes”).

Mintz realizo los siguiente documentales en sus estancias en territorio Andaluz:

Pepe's Family (1978)
The Shoemaker (1978)
Romeria: Day of the Virgin (1982)
Carnaval de Pueblo (1987)
Perico the Bowlmaker (1989)
The Shepherd's Family (1989)

Estas obras documentales y todo el material que produjo en torno a Casas Viejas (y otras localidades de la zona) merecen una puesta en valor mucho mayor. Afortunadamente, "La Asociación de amigos de Mintz" y "Brezo y Castañuela" están realizando una encomiable labor de difusión y respeto por la obra de Mintz, organizando exposiciones fotograficas y editando interesantes publicaciones (Las coplas de carnaval y la sociedad gaditana" o "Historias en Benalup-Casas Viejas"), aun a pesar de las carencias presupuestarias y la falta de compromiso por parte de las instituciones.

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Jerome R. Mintz, más conocido entre los lugareños como 'El americano', no se parece en nada al George Clooney de la película, un espía extranjero que se deja caer por un coqueto pueblo del norte de Italia para huir de sus jefes. El antropólogo que viajó en incontables ocasiones a Casas Viejas en los años 60 y 70, al que curiosamente más de uno confundió en su día con un agente de la CIA, dejó una mayor impronta en la localidad gaditana que el personaje de ficción en la suya. Más de dos décadas después de que falleciera aquejado de una leucemia, son muchos los que le recuerdan en Benalup. De su pluma salió el primer libro sobre los Sucesos de 1933, que dio pie a numerosas investigaciones posteriores. Además, tal y como reconoce Salustiano Gutiérrez, de la Asociación Amigos de Mintz, fue un pionero a la hora de utilizar «fuentes orales». Y es que Jerome vivió con los campesinos que fueron protagonistas de esta historia sangrienta, cuyos testimonios engrosan las páginas de 'Los anarquistas de Casas Viejas'.

Su legado, formado por dos volúmenes, seis cintas de cine y más de 5.000 fotografías, fue cedido en 1996 al pueblo. Pese a que su enfermedad le quitó la posibilidad de pasear más por las calles de Benalup, su espíritu está por todas partes. Nadie como él supo retratar en profundidad la realidad de los jornaleros, la idiosincrasia de los paisanos, las prácticas ganaderas y tradiciones como el Carnaval. Precisamente un carnavalero, que en su día prestó su historia a Jerome, será homenajeado este sábado en la Casa de Cultura. Jesús Mañez, albañil y autor de coplas, recibirá de manos de la hija de 'El americano' el segundo galardón 'La gorra de jornalero de Mintz'.

Carla Mintz regresa después de un año al pueblo en el que creció para ejercer, además, de pregonera del Carnaval benalupense. Ya el año pasado una comparsa dedicó coplas a su padre, quien también firmó un libro dedicado a esta fiesta. 'Coplas del Carnaval' se editó en EE UU en 1997 y no llegó a España hasta 2008. Mintz dedicó una parte a la fiesta en Benalup, otra a Trebujena y una última a las ilegales de Cádiz. «Tuvimos que traducir todas las coplas al español», recuerda Salus, el profesor de Historia del I. E. S. Casas Viejas.

Además, el sábado se inaugurará una nueva exposición con material del antropólogo, veinte de sus fotografías que retratan los bares del pueblo en los sesenta. No sólo los espacios, sino sus protagonistas, quienes eran custodios de grandes y apasionantes historias. 'Los bares de antes' abrirá al público en la calle San Juan hasta el 18 de marzo.

Los organizadores han editado un centenar de catálogos de la muestra, además de postales que los visitantes podrán llevarse gratis. Esta muestra se incluye en la programación de la Semana Cultural del Ayuntamiento de Benalup.

No es la primera vez que Mintz protagoniza una exposición en Benalup. «El material que nos dejó es oro puro. Vamos a hacer otra con sus fotos dedicadas a la ganadería», apunta Salus. Y es que el pueblo cuenta con cinco millares de imágenes del pueblo en los años sesenta gracias a este estudioso extranjero que quedó fascinado por las gentes de este rincón de la Janda.

«Muchos expertos han venido después a documentarse sobre los Sucesos, pero solían estar unos días y se iban. Pero Mintz convivió con los campesinos durante dos décadas. Él ha escrito el mejor libro sobre el tema», afirma rotundamente el responsable de la asociación que lleva su nombre.

El 'cazador cazado'

Según Salus, el escritor Juan José Téllez dio en el clavo cuando dijo que Mintz fue el «cazador cazado». «Vino a Benalup a cazar información y se quedó atrapado por esta gente. Decía que en Estados Unidos las personas estaban muy estresadas y admiraba la alegría de los habitantes del pueblo». Precisamente para homenajearles a todos, Mintz portó hasta sus últimos días una gorra de jornalero durante su día a día en la Universidad de Indiana, donde impartía clases.

Precisamente, según recoge Salus, Mintz era de los que elogiaba las virtudes del mundo rural y el estilo de vida de los campesinos. «Su trabajo fue clave para la recuperación de la memoria histórica».

De Bilbao al pueblo

Casas Viejas sedujo a Jerome Mintz desde el primer momento. Eso sí, llegó a ella de casualidad. Decidido a investigar sobre la relación de la religión con la guerra, recaló en 1964 en Bilbao y después llegó a Casas Viejas, donde se topó con los Sucesos y vio un filón para su estudio. Junto a su familia, cambió su residencia en Indiana por el pequeño pueblo gaditano. Allí crecieron sus hijos y durante esas dos décadas, aunque no dejaron de ser 'los extranjeros', se integraron perfectamente en la comunidad.

Cada vez que regresa, Carla Mintz vuelve a sentir ese calor. Le encanta escuchar las historias que cuentan de su padre los ancianos del pueblo. «Tenía un don especial para hacer que la gente se abriera», dijo en su visita el año pasado. A sus 46 años, pese a que vive feliz en Indiana cerca de su madre, experimenta una nostalgia especial cuando se acerca a este pequeño rincón de España.

Man Without Pigs - Chris Owen (1990)

2011-08-25T05:40:00.000-07:00

Duración: 62
Idioma: Tok Pisin & Ingles con subtitulos en Ingles
País: Australia
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269510/

Description:
John Waiko is the first Papua New Guinean to reach the status of professor. After receiving his doctorate from the Australian National University he traveled back to his home village of Tabara to celebrate the achievement with his own people of the Binandere clan. although John has a history of long schooling in village culture and has been educated in Port Moresby, London and Canberra, he had little knowledge of ritual and no customary wealth in the form of pigs and a long list of favors given and alliances established. When John and his family decided to put on a dance-drama to welcome his return and assert his accomplishment they were met with challenges and skepticism.

Man Without Pigs offers a rare insight into the antagonism aroused when conflict between custom and western values occurs in an isolated community. It is the most recent film by Chris Owen who has collaborated on many of the major films from and about Papua New Guinea in the past decade.

"Tabara village, John's birthplace, is a community where no one works for money, no one pays for things with money and there are no wheels. His family, who have always lived there, expect John to compete and advance within the village, according to village rules, but he is not as alert to the detail of ritual, and the forces that flow in the village, as some of his age mate rivals. John's strength is that he can intervene in the outside world to secure benefits for the Tabara community. His family wish him to be a man of status within the village; his rivals want to have the right to make John carry their message to the outside world." — Hank Nelson, John Waiko's academic advisor at ANU was invited to Tabara as a guest of honor.

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Ocurrido en Hualfín - Raymundo Gleyzer, Jorge Preloran(1965)

2011-08-18T13:32:00.000-07:00

Duración: 41min
Idioma: Ingles y Castellano ( Subtitulos en ingles y castellano)
País: Argentina
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282622/

Director: Raymundo Gleyzer, Jorge Preloran

Synopsis: La historia, la vida, sueños y vicisitudes de tres indígenas argentinos: don Temístocles Figueroa, un coplero ciego de 94 años de edad, quien habla y canta sobre su pasado como trabajador en las zafras de caña. Justina Figueroa, de 83 años, alfarera, y Antonia Figueroa, de 40 años, ocupada en elaborar tejidos tradicionales.

A documentary in 3 parts (the first two in b/w, the 3d in color) about 3 generations of a north Argentinian family that lives close to the Bolivian frontier. The film represents the rare combination of the ethnographic experience of Preloran (and the anthropologist Ana Montes who's responsible to the research that gave way to the film) and the political conscience of Gleyzer. The result of this circumstantial understanding between exceptional creators is a film that's exceptional also relating to sterility that spreads in the twilight of the rudiments which the protagonists manifest in spite of the oppression. The indifferent flow of progress becomes a horrifying threat when related to the fragility of this world that represents no economical interest for the state or for the system.

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Staub - Hartmut Bitomsky (2007)

2011-08-16T02:15:00.000-07:00

Duración: 90
Idioma: Aleman (Subtitulos en English, Español y Italiano i(dx subs)
País: Alemania
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1094277

Director: Hartmut Bitomsky
Cast:
Marga Beck
Cornelia Hoepfner
Ayni Iloar
Hiltrud Jehle
Srecko Kekec
Michaela Preuss
Martin Schacht
etc

Synopsis:

Fantástico documental sobre el fascinante mundo del... polvo! Bitomsky es un valor seguro.

Dust is everywhere and ever-present. A conglomeration of the smallest particles, dust nestles in carpets and in attics. It invades laboratories and settles on artworks. It is blown into the air from factory smokestacks and resides in every raindrop. It is fought and cleared away, but in this Sisyphean task, dust is set in motion and returns even as it is being removed.

DUST examines the myriad forms and pathways of dust. It pursues dust to the places where it settles and meets the people who contend with it. Armies of cleaning men and women, manufacturers of vacuum cleaners and air cleansing products, housewives, toxic waste disposal workers, and museum custodians.

In examining the many types of dust, including microscopic particulates invisible to the naked eye, DUST hears from a variety of scientists—botanists, biologists, meteorologists, and astronomers — who investigate the environmental and health consequences of dust, from Sahara sandstorms and the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Thirties to the toxic dust generated by the 9/11 demolition of the WTC towers.

The phenomenological, philosophical and even artistic aspects of the culture of dust are also explored in interviews with artists and collectors. By closely examining a subject that surrounds us in our daily lives, but to which we rarely pay serious attention, DUST provides us with a new appreciation of the many ways in which dust affects our bodies, our environment, and even the cosmos.
Indeed, by enabling us to take such a close look at particles often invisible to the naked eye, DUST offers us a fresh, new way to see the entire world.

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Muchisimas gracias a Nala!

Dzveli qartuli simgera (Georgian Ancient Songs) - Otar Iosseliani (1969)

2011-07-19T00:40:00.000-07:00

Duración: 21 min
Idioma: Georgiano / Ruso

IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171782/

Director: Otar Iosseliani
Cast: N/A

Description: Short film about Georgia and Georgian folk songs.

In the 13th century severe wars with the Mongols, Turks, Persians have considerably weakened the former power of Georgia. The spiritual life of the country fell into decay. Through the centuries have survived only a few monuments of the ancient musical culture. From the performers the Georgian classical songs require great skill and knowledge of complex rules that are passed from generation to generation. These canons form a special music school. Our sketch will acquaint you with little-known samples of classical Georgian polyphony, with its musical dialects:
Svan, Megrel, Gurian, Kakhetian. In the pictorial series we selected those that are already endangered, signs of the past, which will help to apprehend a song on a specific ethnographic background.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/203692423/dzveli.part1.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/203696045/dzveli.part3.rar

Cantos de Trabalho - Leon Hirszman (1974 - 1976)

2011-07-05T06:58:00.000-07:00

Cantos de Trabalho - Mutirão (1974)

Duración: 12 min
Idioma: portugues(subtitulos: eng/fr/spa/ptBr)
País: Brazil

Description: Between 1974 and 1976, Leon Hirszman held three documentaries produced by the MEC (Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture) about the songs of the rural workers at the northeastern of Brazil. In the trilogy there is the documentation of the work songs of sugar cane CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR, the growers of cocoa CACAU, and team workers MUTIRÃO.
"It is a kind of partido-alto from the country, a group of samba at work" says the filmmaker who's a declared follower of the trail opened by Humberto Mauro and Mario de Andrade aiming the redemption of this cultural practice threatened with extinction.

MUTIRÃO aka TEAM WORK

“Mutirão” is a Portuguese word meaning participatory mutual aid; collective effort. Usually a community project that requires the effort of the whole group – for example when people get together to build a house.

The institution of collective work is universal. It exists in every country, with different forms of socialization. In Brazil, where the Native American heritage is mixed with the European and the African, the tradition of collective work songs barely survives, but it does, mainly in the countryside.
This movie records the collective preparation of a cornfield and the roofing of a house in Chã Preta, Alagoas state, in August 1974.
Different forms of collective work, neighbors collaborating with each other, everyone working for the benefit of one, doing a job that would be extremely extenuating or hard for one person alone.

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Cantos de Trabalho - Cacau (1976)

Duración: 11 min
Idioma: portugues(subtitulos: eng/fr/spa/ptBr)
País: Brazil

Description: Between 1974 and 1976, Leon Hirszman held three documentaries produced by the MEC (Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture) about the songs of the rural workers at the northeastern of Brazil. In the trilogy there is the documentation of the work songs of sugar cane CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR, the growers of cocoa CACAU, and team workers MUTIRÃO.
"It is a kind of partido-alto from the country, a group of samba at work" says the filmmaker.

CACAU aka COCOA

Work songs are, perhaps, the first songs men ever created. Their origin is lost in time. These remote songs were born during collective labor, coming from groups of people who organized to work together to perform a common task. Especially the first primordial task of man: to work the land and harvest its fruit.
The various activities involved in sowing, harvesting, husking, drying and crushing cocoa, inspire the creation of several songs and rhythms. Singing makes labor lighter and makes men more communicative and fraternal.
Harvesting and husking give birth to songs and laments and crushing cocoa inspires dances that establish the rhythm of the songs.
This documentary was shot in Itabuna, Bahia state, in May 1976. By this time work songs were already an endangered cultural manifestation. Changes in the countryside, growing urbanization and the influence of mass media tend to make them disappear.

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Cantos de Trabalho - Cana-de-açúcar (1976)

Duración: 10 min
Idioma: portugues(subtitulos: eng/fr/spa/ptBr)
País: Brazil

Description:
Between 1974 and 1976, Leon Hirszman held three documentaries produced by the MEC (Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture) about the songs of the rural workers at the northeastern of Brazil. In the trilogy there is the documentation of the work songs of sugar cane CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR, the growers of cocoa CACAU, and team workers MUTIRÃO.
"It is a kind of partido-alto from the country, a group of samba at work" says the filmmaker.

CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR aka SUGARCANE

This documentary was shot in Feira de Santana, Bahia state, in May 1976. At that time, sugarcane plantation workers still sang like the men who did this kind of work centuries ago.
The high pitched sad tone of these songs brings us the lament of slaves. But the counterpoint of these voices reminds us of teamwork: the collective work of fellow men.
Working and singing people unite and come together in the collective task. Work and song are developed within the same rhythm.
Industrialization and the transformations it causes, growing urbanization and the mass communication system tend to extinguish this kind of cultural creation of the people.

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muchas gracias a fati y davidonato!

Svyato - Victor Kossakovsky (2005)

2011-06-27T03:13:00.000-07:00

Idioma: Ruso (solo unas pocas palabras)
País: Rusia
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811095/

Director: Victor Kossakovsky

Description: Svyato is the first film in a planned trilogy (working title Palindrome) by director Victor Kossakovsky, who won the Joris Ivens Award (and the Audience Award) for Belovy at IDFA in 1993 and was nominated for the same award for Tishe! in 2002. In Russian, "Svyato" means both "happy, clear, joyful," as well as "considered holy." But Svyato is also the short form of Svyatoslav - the nickname of the two-year-old subject of this film. For the first time in his life, Svyato looks in the mirror. Simultaneously, his reflection is recorded by three HD cameras. Kossakovsky calls Svyato a film about "self-cognition and loneliness." "A baby can be surrounded by love; parents can play with him and teach him things, but no one can help him with the most important questions. Who am I? With a question like that, you are on your own. You can read a lot of books about love or God, but in the end, you are the only one who can answer the question as to whether they exist or not."

This film is a unique document of interest to psychologists and parents. Its theoretical basis is the discovery by the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, presented in a paper first in 1936, of what he termed the mirror stage of development. His discovery and the concept was a genuine addition to Freud's theory of early development. We see the little Russian boy use a mirror for the first time. He sees the mirror image as an other being but then relates it to his own body and by that route to his self or "I". Lacan's observation established that from this point on the child first has a self and that it has been acquired by way of an other. Throughout life the self is assessed and validated by way of the other.

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gracias a gneur

Conference at the VA with Elizabeth Edwards

2011-06-14T12:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1103/figures-fictions-the-ethics-and-poetics-of-photographic-depi-2095/

Figures & Fictions : The Ethics and Poetics of Photographic Depictions of People

What:
Courses & conferences
When:

Fri 24 June 2011 – Sat 25 June 2011
Where:
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre

Conference: Find out how contemporary South African photography has influenced multi-disciplinary fields. Speakers include Achille Mbembe, Elizabeth Edwards, Tamar Garb and artist Jo Ractliffe. Please note this is a 2 day conference, you will need to select each day if you want to attend the whole event.

Film Weekly podcast: Frederick Wiseman's world

2011-06-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

http://gu.com/p/2zavd

"Agnes Poirier meets Frederick Wiseman in Paris in spring to discuss his latest documentary Boxing Gym and to discover more about his unique cinematic style and philosophy.

From his directorial debut, Titicut Follies, onwards Wiseman has created a sub-genre of observational social documentary dedicated to capturing the inner workings of institutions.

He has, over four decades, documented schools, hospitals, military facilities and cultural organisations.

His latest film captures the particular culture of a boxing community in Texas and Agnes explores with Wiseman his preoccupation with human and institutional violence."

Presented by Jason Phipps and Agnes Poirier
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 April 2011 12.42 BST

Surname Viet Given Name Nam - T. Minh-ha Trinh (1989)

2011-06-14T05:52:00.000-07:00

Duración: 109
Idioma: Ingles y Vietnamita con subtitulos en Ingles para las partes en vietnamita.
País: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098414/

Director: T. Minh-ha Trinh

Description:
Of marriage and loyalty: “Daughter, she obeys her father/ Wife, she obeys her husband/ Widow, she obeys her son.”

Vietnamese-born Trinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society. Using dance, printed texts, folk poetry and the words and experiences of Vietnamese women in Vietnam—from both North and South—and the United States, Trinh’s film challenges official culture with the voices of women. A theoretically and formally complex work, SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM explores the difficulty of translation, and themes of dislocation and exile, critiquing both traditional society and life since the war.

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Muchas gracias a Poenir y videoartcollector

De Nens - Joaquim Jorda (2003)

2011-06-07T01:10:00.001-07:00

Duración: 180 min
Idioma: Catalan y Castellano (con subtitulos en castellano)
País: España
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424936/

Director: Joaquim Jordà

Synopsis:

Joaquim Jordà es un veterano cineasta que ha trabajado en múltiples campos en relación al cine (guión, producción, docencia) aunque con limitada carrera como director de largometrajes (7 en 35 años). En su obra previa, Mones com la Becky (Monos como Becky, 1999) , documental realizado tras sufrir una embolia cerebral, se basó en las actividades de un grupo de internos esquizofrénicos y en la vida del inventor de la lobotomía, para analizar tanto los límites entre la locura y la normalidad como los servicios de salud mental. Jordà salió triunfador de este reto personal y profesional, con una película que, pese a su irregular heterogeneidad, resultaba una propuesta muy estimulante. Cuatro años después, Jordà se arriesga de nuevo.

En verano de 1997, en plena escasez de noticias, un escándalo sacudió Barcelona. Parecía ser que una red basada en centros de ayuda a menores del barrio chino, el Raval, captaba niños y niñas para pederastas. Profesionales de entidades relacionadas con el propio ayuntamiento podían estar implicados. Unos meses más tarde, sin embargo, se empezó a acusar de manipulación a la Guardia Urbana. Un año después se llegó a descalificar la instrucción, una serie de acusados son dejados en libertad y se plantea que ha existido una interesada confusión de todo el proceso. Se planteó la manipulación del supuesto caso por parte de grupos inmobiliarios que pugnan por diferentes opciones de urbanismo del Raval y han facilitado la denuncia de falsos culpables ante la interesada connivencia de los medios de comunicación.

Tanto la instrucción como el propio proceso quedan en entredicho y sólo unos pocos acusados llegan al mismo. Basándose en los planteamientos de Arcadi Espada, periodista que denunció la manipulación, Jordà consigue la autorización para filmar el juicio y con estas imágenes construye de nuevo un riguroso análisis social.

Se rodaron más de 150 horas de material que han sido reducidas a 188 minutos para su exhibición comercial. Más allá del discutible recurso de teatralización de determinados aspectos de la trama y de unas fallidas (por farragosas) tertulias entre miembros de las asociaciones vecinales implicadas en el conflicto, el resultado no deja de ser apasionante. Junto a este material citado, Jordà rodó varias canciones alusivas al tema interpretadas por Albert Pla en un local del Raval, entrevistas con periodistas que siguieron el caso, con algunos ex acusados que autorizaron la filmación de la entrevista, con gestores de urbanismo, vecinos del Raval y el juicio en sí.

Al final, no sabremos mucho más acerca de las responsabilidades en la más que posible manipulación de la trama. No se plantea alternativa al veredicto de culpabilidad emitido por el juez. No se emite sentencia respecto de los cambios urbanísticos en una zona degradada social y urbanísticamente. Sin embargo, De nens ofrece un resultado brillante, por profundo y por poliédrico. De la misma manera que Mones com la Becky entrecruzaba discursos diversos sobre la sanidad y la locura en el sistema sanitario, De nens alterna un estudio sobre la pederastia, una valoración de lo forzado de los cambios urbanísticos en la Barcelona de cambio de siglo, un análisis del “análisis” periodístico de un tema “escandaloso” y , last but not least , una descripción del sistema judicial español.

Evidentemente, pese a la duración, el resultado no es suficientemente equilibrado. Nos faltan datos para conocer en profundidad la idoneidad de los cambios urbanísticos en Ciutat Vella; pero Jordà evidencia la desconexión entre la Barcelona oficial, basada en planos y estadísticas, y la Barcelona real, sucia, miserable y pobre, a quien se ofrecen nuevas viviendas sin escuchar su voz. «Bruti, sporchi e cativi», en palabras de Scola, los olvidados del Raval se merecen viviendas dignas y nuevas oportunidades. No obstante, Jordà nos hace ver que la oficialidad toma por portavoces de estos habitantes de una infraBarcelona a grupos que pugnan también por intereses propios. Tampoco hay tiempo para una valoración en profundidad del punto de vista de los “media”. Sin embargo, por la boca muere el pez y la simple grabación de conversaciones entre reporteros y juez en el salón de los pasos perdidos de la Audiencia o la entrevista a supuestos profesionales del periodismo evidencian la frivolidad con que se tratan estos temas y ponen en entredicho la imparcialidad de unos medios de comunicación que no dudan en ejercer la acusación particular con tal de aumentar las ventas, basándose en prejuicios y en ausencia de evidencias.

Y, finalmente, el juicio. No veremos a Henry Fonda defendiendo un inocente frente a un jurado obstinado. Ni a Tom Cruise elaborando un brillante discurso. Tampoco a Gregory Peck, elaborando un lúcido análisis ético del comportamiento humano. Por no haber, tampoco hay un resumen de las evidencias. Pero no es preciso. Las imágenes recogidas en la Audiencia con varias cámaras son bastante evidentes para poner en relieve las insuficiencias de nuestro sistema judicial. Sirven, por supuesto, para apoyar un debate en torno a la objetividad de los reportajes y documentales. Y no son, por fortuna e inevitablemente, objetivas. Seguro que Jordà las ha seleccionado con mala uva para llamar nuestra intención. Pero estas imágenes no están tampoco manipuladas. Las insuficiencias de los abogados, su torpeza en las intervenciones, el desinterés mostrado repetidamente por miembros de la acusación y la arrogancia rayando en la chulería de fiscal y juez nos dejan boquiabiertos como espectadores y como potenciales usuarios de este sistema judicial. Se enfrentan a macarras, proxenetas y pederastas. No tienen frente a ellos a asesinos o mafiosos, sino a miserables, económica y espiritualmente, gente sin escrúpulos que no ha dudado en vender el cuerpo de sus hijos a muy bajo precio para obtener beneficio. Sin embargo, la miseria moral de los acusados queda empequeñecida ante la torpeza y la deshumanización del sistema judicial en las escenas en que los profesionales pierden (literalmente) los papeles, en que bostezan durante una declaración o se confunden de testimonio. En este contexto, Jordà recoge con atención la mirada y la declaración final de Xavier Tamarit, acusado principal y patético pederasta, que contiene mayor coherencia y dignidad que los discursos profesionales que le han precedido. Las imágenes de De nens no quitan ni ponen rey. No se pone el veredicto en tela de juicio. No se plantea manipulación legal. Aun así, las interesantes tres horas de película nos permiten reflexionar sobre los hilos que mueven nuestra sociedad, sobre los mecanismos que determinan la evolución de la misma y sobre cuan sólidos son. Y, en definitiva, hacen reverberar las palabras emitidas por un testigo que duda de la idoneidad del juicio al dejar claro que la característica común de todos los finalmente juzgados es exclusivamente la pobreza.

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Muchas gracias a gabi2!

Boxing Gym - Frederick Wiseman (2010)

2011-06-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

Duración: 91
Idioma: Ingles / English
País: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1653827/

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Image: John Davey
Sound: Frederick Wiseman
Editing: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis:
Austin, Texas. Lord's Gym was founded sixteen years ago by Richard Lord, a former professional boxer. A wide variety of people of all ages, races, ethnicities and social classes train at the gym: men, women, children, doctors, lawyers, judges, business men and women, immigrants, professional boxers and people who want to become professional boxers alongside amateurs who love the sport and teenagers who are trying to develop strength and assertiveness. The gym is an example of the American “melting pot” where people meet, talk, and train.

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Thanks a lot to Lazslo and Poenir!
Muchas gracias a Lazslo y Poenir!

La cultura visual en la era postcolonial: el desafió de la antropología

2011-06-02T07:58:00.002-07:00

DESCARGAR- DOWNLOAD "La cultura visual en la era postcolonial: el desafió de la antropología" - Matthew Rampley

Doon School Chronicles - David MacDougall (2000)

2011-05-28T01:15:00.000-07:00

Director: David MacDougall
País: EEUU
Idioma: Ingles (subtitulos en Ingles para las partes necesarias)

Synopsis:
This intimate and groundbreaking study of India's most prestigious boys' boarding school is the most recent work of renowned ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall. In this original and beautifully photographed film MacDougall examines not only the life of the boys in the school and the culture associated with that life; he also inquires into the school's "social aesthetics," the qualities of place, material objects, and social interaction that provides a distinctive backdrop for the everyday life of this community.

Sometimes called "the Eton of India," Doon School has nevertheless developed its own characteristic style and presents a curious mixture of privilege and egalitarianism. The school was established by a group of Indian nationalists in the 1930s to produce a new generation of leaders who would guide the nation after Independence. Since then it has become highly influential in the creation of the new Indian elites and has come to epitomize many aspects of Indian postcoloniality.

Shot over a two-year period, the film explores the social aesthetics and ideology of the school through its rituals, the physical environment it has created, and its effects upon several boys of different ages and temperaments. The film is divided into ten "chapters," each headed by a text taken from school documents. This narrative structure lends great cohesiveness to the film and at the same time facilitates classroom use and helps focus discussion on the key themes and issues explored.

"Doon School Chronicles" will take its place among the classics of ethnographic cinema. It is essential viewing for a wide array of classes in cultural anthropology, Asian and Indian studies, visual anthropology, education and childhood studies, and post-colonial studies. An excellent accompaniment to the film is the book, "Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School," by anthropologist Sanjay Srivastava (Routledge, 1998).

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Childhood Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea - Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead (1954)

2011-05-25T00:37:00.000-07:00

Duración: 17
Idioma: Ingles
País: USA

Director: Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead

Synopsis:
Depicts sibling rivalry among children of the same age in the two cultures of Bali and New Guinea by showing how they respond to the mother attending to another baby, the ear piercing of a younger sibling, and the experimental presentation of a doll. From the Character Formation in Different Cultures series. Produced by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. 1954

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J is for Junkie (2005)

2011-05-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

J is for Junkie comes as a hard-hitting and beautifully shot documentary on crack and being homeless. Filmed in “The Living Room” in Atlanta, a small cove tucked in behind a Texaco gas station, the documentary captures African-American men and women opening up to Corey Davis, a young filmmaker with an artistic flare and an anthropologist’s care for documenting lived reality.

This is my first serious attempt at film making… Growing up I never had a father, because he was out running the streets getting high… Right around the time I was born, the mid 80’s, African-American communities across the country was struck by the crack epidemic. Which robbed us our prideful culture and instantly perverted it into a counter-culture where playgrounds became warzones and families were destroyed.

Growing up, I never really respected junkies… I just always knew they couldn’t be trusted and they made fucked up decisions… But one day in October, I decided to start filming a group crack addicts in Atlanta who live outside in a small cove behind a Texaco, infamously dubbed as the “Living Room” who share their stories and tell us what it’s like to live with a deadly addiction to crack-cocaine. Their stories would change me forever…

Corey Davis is a tattoo artist, illustrator, clothing designer, musician, and magazine publisher, alongside his film making. J is for Junkie is “the first of a series of documentaries I’m doing on the marginal people of America.”

Hat-tip to Mark Flanagan and to Greedmont Park Magazine.

Link to J is for Junkie on YouTube

Link to Corey Davis Video Q&A on J is for Junkie

After doing this, it’s just like I understand people struggle more… I just kinda approach it more so from a reporter aspect and try not to judge people… So I’m just trying to be broad and reach different shit that I think is weird or cool or whatever. But really most important is relevant. This is all American culture to me.

Link to Corey Davis’ website

http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2011/05/23/j-is-for-junkie/

Maasai Women - Melanie Wallace & Sanford Low (1980)

2011-05-17T05:17:00.000-07:00

Duración: 59
Idioma: Narración en Ingles & Maa con subtitulos en Ingles
País: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.der.org/films/maasai-women.html

Director: Melanie Wallace & Sanford Low

Synopsis:
The Maasai, a prosperous society of animal herders whose sustenence and wealth is their cattle, live primarily in the Rift Valley between Kenya and Tanzania. Women tend the cattle, bring up the children, clean mud from the village when it rains, and belong to a man's estate. This film highlights the Maasai female's rights of passage from childhood to old age, and her lot in life as she is tied to the fortunes of not only husbands but sons as well.

Since they alone can give birth, the women see themselves as important contributors to their husband's wealth and develop close supportive relationships with the co-wives. In this society, if a man is rich, "it's his wives who made him so."

Science, Technology, & Human Values Vol. 5, No. 32 (Summer, 1980)

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THANKS A LOT TO POENIR!!
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Imponderabilia Student Anthropology Journal - Spring 2011

2011-05-11T01:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55131111/Imponderabilia-2011

Ur-Musig - Cyrill Schläpfer (1993)

2011-05-08T03:31:00.000-07:00

Duración: 107
Idioma: Suizo y Alemán con subtitulos disponibles en Ingles, Francés, Alemán, Español, Ruso y Italiano.
País: Suiza
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108459/

http://www.csr-records.ch/ur-musig/index.html

Director: Cyrill Schläpfer

Description:

UR-MUSIG is a musical trip through the archaic soundscape that has survived in parts of central Switzerland and the region around Appenzell. The voyage explores the bond between the inhabitants, their forms of musical expression, and the landscape in which they live.

Their music reveals an unmistakably melancholy undertone, an affinity with the "blues" / cajun - to my surprise I liked the music very much and even more so the images of nature and alpine farmer's daily work and lives.

This movie is about traditional swiss folkmusic has a lot more to offer than only folklore. "UR-Musig" is about the work and life of mountain peasants in the midst of archaic mountain landscapes. It is about traditional swiss architecture and interior decorations, about peoples and their garbs. There are not many dialogs and no narrator. The pictures speak for themselves.

UR-Musig's non-narrative minimal-academic-musicological documentary style manages to capture a scene, a preserved instant that is rendered with such loving care that one is blown away not only by the music, but by the mystical quality of the various yodels of the Appenzellers and Innerschweizer mountain dwellers.

It took Cyrill Schläpfer four years to shoot this movie.

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Photo Wallahs - David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall (1991)

2011-05-07T03:03:00.000-07:00

Director: David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall
Año: 1991
País: Australia
Duración: 60 minutos
Idioma: Ingles (Subtitulos en las partes indias)

Sinopsis:
PHOTO WALLAHS is set in Mussoorie, a famous hill station in northern India which has attracted tourists since the 19th century. In this setting photography has thrived.

Without voice-over commentary, the film discovers its subject in the streets, bazaars, shops, photographic studios and private homes of Mussoorie.

In the process it compares the diverse work and attitudes of the local photographers - Mussoorie's "photo wallahs". Although photography has developed certain culturally distinctive features in India, its many forms and uses there tell us much about the nature and significance of photography throughout the world.

Awards:
Royal Anthropological Institute Commendation
Society for Visual Anthropology Award
Bilan du Film Ethnographique (Paris) honoree
Margaret Mead Film Festival honoree
Berlin Film Festival honoree
Bombay Intl. Film Festival honoree

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Aru kikanjoshi (An Engineer's Assistant) - Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1964)

2011-05-07T02:54:00.000-07:00

Duración: 37 min
Idioma: Japones (English hardsubs - subtitulos en ingles incrustados)
País: Japon
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240352/

Director: Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Description: Documentary on the everyday life of the crew of the train from Tokyo to Northern Japan, their return and the country they cross.

In 1962, the service schedule of the National Railways became increasingly congested due to transport of materials and Shinkansen deployment in preparation for the Olympics, and intensified labor schedules were imposed. On May 2 of that year a major accident occurred at Mikawashima. In order to wipe away the bad impression of the accident, the JNR authorities planned a film to promote the safety of the railways. The film traces a day in the life of an engineer’s assistant.

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Rats in the Ranks - Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly (1996)

2011-05-04T05:38:00.000-07:00

Director: Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly
País: Australia
Año: 1996
Idioma: Ingles

Synopsis:
Ambition, courage, envy, betrayal, disaster, triumph...in other words a classic study of politics.

Politics is a bruising business. The best policies in the world mean nothing unless you've got the numbers. This film takes a behind-locked-doors look at how politicians get the numbers. Every September Sydney's Leichhardt Council elects its mayor. Incumbent Larry Hand is popular with the citizenry but they don't vote for mayor, the 12 councillors do and after three years of Larry some of them are after his job.

Comments:
This is the famous account of Sydney local politics from the filmmaking partnership that made the astonishing trilogy in Papua New Guinea: First Contact, Joe Leahy's Neighbours and Black Harvest.

Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson originally proposed a different program to Film Australia. It was to be about Fiji with a working title of The Former Mayor of Ba. However after initial research did not produce the story possibilities they had anticipated, they decided to switch their gaze closer to home and the council of Leichhardt in Sydney. In an unflinching 'fly on the wall' style, they follow the mayoral election - rife with scheming and turmoil. With extraordinary access to councilors they create a real-life drama of how local politics really works.

As Connolly/Anderson commented: "Rats is a film about getting the numbers. And if you're squeamish about the way it's done, don't single out Leichhardt because this is universal behaviour. In keeping with our fundamental approach to filmmaking, we tried to shed light on how democracy functions. Not how it ought to function - how it actually functions"

Rats in the Ranks screened at many film festivals and won the Silver Plaque for Social/Political Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1996 and the Critics Choice Award for Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival that same year and took home the Logie Award for most outstanding documentary series/program in 1998.

From IMDB: “Anderson and Connolly filmed everything they could get their lenses on in the weeks leading up to a crucial Leichardt Council meeting. No doubt they were hoping for the occasional unguarded word to be caught on film - or perhaps a minor scandal might flit in front of the camera for a minute or two.
The result? Not only did they get all the juicy stuff they had hoped for, and more; they got a story so perfect and brilliantly proportioned that it could have been scripted - indeed, the `script' that resulted from Anderson and Connolly taking real events and snipping out the irrelevant bits is far more satisfying, clever and just plain entertaining than all but a handful of the scripts on which Hollywood is willing to squander millions of dollars. Anderson and Connolly's good fortune surpasses belief. I'm not saying they don't deserve this good fortune. But by gum, it IS good fortune. It's as if they'd planted a camera on the shores of Loch Ness just as the monster takes its first breath since 1450.

Their only problem must have been to fight the impulse to tap some of the councillors on the shoulder and tell them what some of the other councillors were planning to do. It's obvious they didn't, because ... oh, watch the film and find out.”

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2011-05-02T01:00:00.000-07:00

LEER/READ "La antropología visual: estética y ciencia social" escrito por Isidro López Sánchez

LEER/READ "Miradas sobre la otra mujer en el cine etnográfico - Thoughts on 'the other woman' in ethnographic film" escrito por Cristina Vega Solís

LEER/READ "Amas-de-leite e suas representações visuais: símbolos socioculturais e narrativos da vida privada do Nordeste patriarcal-escravocrata na imagem fotográfic" escrito por Georgia Quintas

Cicle de Cinema Etnogràfic Presentació de treballs. Màster Antropologia Visual. Universitat de Barcelona

2011-04-29T00:44:00.000-07:00

SABADO 30 DE ABRIL

Entrada Gratuïta. Aforament Limitat

Museu Etnològic de Barcelona
passeig de Santa Madrona 16-22. Parc de Montjuïc
BUS 55 a la porta del Museu

DE 11:00 A 14:00 DE LA MAÑANA:

* La demanda del caracol y la mariposa
* Desperdicis
* Desde dentro (“Luciérnagas”)

DE 17:00 A 19:00 DE LA TARDE:

* Aquí y ahora
* Interzonas

DESCARGAR PDF CON TODA LA INFORMACIÓN

La chasse au lion à l'arc - Jean Rouch (1965)

2011-04-28T03:25:00.000-07:00

Duración: 77
Idioma: Frances (Subtitulos en Ingles, Frances y Portugues)
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209964/

Director: Jean Rouch

Sinopsis:

« Only the Songhay hunters, a hereditary caste, are entitled to kill lions. The herdsmen are permitted only to throw stones at lions to chase them away. The Peul consider that the lion is necessary for the herd, and they are capable of identifying individual lions by the tracks they leave. But when a lion kills too many cattle, it has to be eliminated, because such a lion is a killer » (J. Rouch). From 1957 to 1964, Rouch observed the Gao hunters from the Yatakala region and the film recounts episodes of the hunt in which technology and magic are intimately entwined : making bows and arrows, preparing the poison, tracking the animals, the death ritual. But the old killer lion known as the « American » succeeds in escaping all the traps set and the Gao hunters only get to two of his females. After the hunt, the men tell their children the story of the « gaway gawey », the fabulous lion hunt.

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"Visual Anthropology" VOL.22 (2009) - VOL.24 (2011)

2011-04-25T13:03:00.000-07:00

DESCARGAR la revista "Visual Anthropology" desde el VOL.22 (2009) al VOL.24 (2011)

DOWNLOAD the journal "Visual Anthropology" from VOL.22 (2009) al VOL.24 (2011)

"Visual Anthropology" VOL.17 (2004) - VOL.21 (2008)

2011-04-22T05:44:00.000-07:00

DESCARGAR la revista "Visual Anthropology" desde el VOL.17 (2004) al VOL.21 (2008)

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Holy Ghost People - Peter Adair (1967)

2011-04-20T00:20:00.000-07:00

Testimony Scene from Holy Ghost People (1967) from Murky Recess on Vimeo.

Worship Scene from Holy Ghost People from Murky Recess on Vimeo.

Filmed in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia, Holy Ghost People (1967) joins the Holiness church for worship. Director Peter Adair's ethnographic vérité style creates an intimate portrait of true faith. The congregation sings, dances, speaks in tongues, drinks strychnine, and handles poisonous serpents. The transcendental atmosphere is cut with tension, more so when I tell you someone gets bitten.

Get the Ghost: watch or download the full documentary.

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Familiar Places - David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall (1980)

2011-04-19T06:53:00.000-07:00

País: Australia
Año: 1980
Director: David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall
Duración: 52 minutos

Synopsis:
A white Australian anthropologist accompanies Aboriginal families to map their clan territories in northern Queensland.

About the recent movement of Aboriginal people back to their traditional lands after decades of living on missions and in government settlements. Covers also the work being done by anthropologist Peter Sutton in mapping campsites, wells and sacred places in Cape York Peninsula for use in future land rights claims.

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State of Dogs - Peter Brosens & Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh (1998)

2011-04-12T10:03:00.000-07:00

Duración: 93
Idioma: Mongol(Subtitulos en Ingles incluidos)
País: Belgica, Holanda, Dinamarca, Finlandia, Mongolia
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169268/

Director: Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh

Synopsis: Mongolia’s capital city Ulan Bator has a human population of 800,000 and a stray dog population of 120,000. The dog problem is being solved by a man hired by the city to hunt down and shoot dogs. The streets are littered with dead canines. Baasar is a dog destined for exactly this fate, but once dead, he reflects upon his life. He came from the steppes to the city and, alone, sought to attach himself to a young woman. Through Baasar’s eyes, we see contemporary Mongolian life and the vein of mysticism and myth that coexists with the everyday.

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2011-04-12T03:22:00.000-07:00

LEER EL ARTICULO "Antropología Visual y Contexto Político: el Caso de Napoleón Chagnon" de Raquel Martens Ramírez

La Montée au ciel - Stéphane Breton (2008)

2011-04-11T05:34:00.000-07:00

Duración: 52
Idioma: Nepali con subtitulos en Ingles
País: Nepal
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825853/

Director: Stéphane Breton

Synopsis:
In the folds of a valley in Nepal, at the end of a path worn out by so many centuries and so many footfalls, lies a Brahman village: shit lying on all the corners of the road, purity of hearts, amazement. Two old shepherds, far too often sad, accompanied sometimes by a boy full of innocence, live there and push their animals while singing on the most desolate slopes.

Born in 1959, Stéphane Breton is an ethnologist and documentary film-maker. He shoots his films all alone and takes care of both photography and sound. He lived for several years with the Wodanis from the highlands of New Guinea, where he shot a filmEux et moi – Them and me"(The Films d’Ici and ARTE, 2001). Shot behind the scenes, from the viewpoint of a subjective camera, this film relates his ambiguous relationship and negotiations with the people living in this far-flung village lost in the mountains.

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Good-bye Old Man - David MacDougall (1977)

2011-04-09T05:27:00.000-07:00

Director: David MacDougall
Idioma: Ingles & Tiwi

Synopsis:
When the head of the Australian Aboriginal Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, Melville Island, died, his final wish was that a film be made in his memory. Goodbye Old Man is the result. As a film that comes from the request of the family rather than from an outsider, it has a depth of involvement not often achieved in ethnographic film.

In the first part of the film, various members of the family each talk about their memories of the dead man, of their respect for him. At the same time they are preparing for the pukumani ceremony-traditional among the Tiwi of Melville Island off Northern Australia-to put the dead man's spirit at rest and to readjust the imbalance his death has created. Such ceremonies are again being performed after a period of decline. This ceremony is also one of bereavement, allowing the whole family the chance to say goodbye.

Some members of the family set up ceremonial poles at a nearby beach where the ceremony will be held. They dance to drive away spirits in the village. On the first day of the ceremony, everyone crowds into open trucks to go to the beach. Along the way, they stop periodically to dance and men talk about the importance of the customs being carried on by the younger people. Throughout the ceremony and the events surrounding it, a member of the family narrates, explaining the meaning and symbolism. When the family arrives at the beach, they dance again. They dance the crocodile dance and the dead man's brother dances a personal dance. In this dance, the brother moves as though he had lost a leg and the missing leg becomes a metaphor for his brother. Then the dead man's brother pays people who helped with the ceremony. They finish with another crocodile dance where they swim into the sea, giving the dead man his final goodbye.

Part of the power of this film is the family's desire to make the viewer understand the ceremony and the reasons behind it. In one sense, the film becomes yet another aspect of the ceremony itself, one more way of showing respect and saying goodbye.

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TEXTOS DE DEMETRIO E. BRISSET MARTÍN

2011-04-07T07:01:00.000-07:00

"Imágenes de la muerte en 'Las Hurdes' de Buñuel". Gazeta de Antropología, nº 22, 2006

"Antropología visual y análisis fotográfico". Gazeta de Antropología, nº 20, 2004

"Acerca de la fotografía etnográfica". Gazeta de Antropología, nº 15, 1999.

"Antropología visual de un rito nupcial". Gazeta de Antropología, nº 18, 2002.

"Fotografía, Muerte y Símbolo. Aproximación desde la Antroplogía Visual", Gazeta de Antropología, nº 21, 2005.

Lomax the Songhunter - Rogier Kappers (2004)

2011-04-07T05:35:00.000-07:00

Duración: 92
Idioma: Ingles (Contiene subtitulos srt. en frances y aleman)
País: Holanda
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439682/

Director: Rogier Kappers
Rogier Kappers nació en Holanda y estudió Antropología Visual en la Universidad de Amsterdam. Ha trabajado como cámara, técnico de sonido y montador en diversas redes de televisión en Holanda. Entre sus obras encontramos los cortometrajes The Secret of War (1995), Sand (2000), y A Refuse Collector in Istanbul (2002).

Synopsis:
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) era un coleccionista, pero no un coleccionista cualquiera. Durante gran parte de su vida, viajó por el mundo con su grabadora para cazar las mejores canciones folk. Cuando Rogier Kappers, el director, visita a Alan Lomax para entrevistarlo, descubre a un Alan que no puede hablar por culpa de una hemorragia cerebral. El director decide, entonces, buscar a las personas que Lomax había grabado años antes. El viaje lo lleva a través de las desoladas islas escocesas, el interior deshabitado de España o los pueblos de montaña aislados de Italia. Kappers se encuentra con aquellos que Lomax convirtió en artistas: granjeros, trabajadores, amas de casa, pastores...; todos dan la mejor parte de sí mismos para cantar la canción más bonita. En esta road movie pasional y musical, descubrimos lentamente por qué la música folk puede ser tan bella y cuál es el tesoro que había poseído, en aquel tiempo, Alan Lomax.

Who hasn't heard of Alan Lomax and his father John's work on field recordings for the Library of Congress?
Any folk music fan sooner or later finds these two men's name on some records liner notes or folk music related books.

The director of this film travels through some places Lomax visited some 60 years ago during his field recordings, starting off in Scotland and entering then Spain and Italy. People who sang these songs to Lomax in their youth hear again those records anew in their old age and tell about their encounter with the visitor. Some people passed away but their relatives still are alive and hear what once they sang.

Premios:
Premio Gouden Kalf (‘Ternerda de Oro’) al Mejor Documental Holandés del Año en el Festival de Cine Holandés de UItrecht. Países Bajos, 2005.
Selección oficial en el IDFA (Festival Internacional de Documentales de Ámsterdam). Países Bajos, 2004.
Selección oficial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Melbourne. Australia, 2005.
Selección oficial en el Festival de Cine y Televisión de Colonia. Alemania, 2005.

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Under the Men's Tree - David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall (1973)

2011-04-06T03:14:00.000-07:00

Director: David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall
Idioma: Jie con subtitulos en Ingles.

Synopsis:
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David and Judith MacDougall captures one particularly riveting discussion one afternoon under the men's tree.

The conversation on this particular afternoon becomes a kind of reverse ethnography, centering on the European's most noticeable possession, the motor vehicle. This is a uniquely delicate and intimate film, filled with the humor of the Jie and, implicitly, the ironic wit of the filmmakers.

In Jie, with English subtitles.

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EN RELACIÓN AL TEMA, PODEIS CONSULTAR AQUÍ EL ARTICULO DE ELISENDA ARDEVOL "EL HUMOR Y LA RISA EN EL CINE ETNOGRAFICO", el cual forma parte de la publicación "La risa oblicua. Tangentes, paralelismos e intersecciones entre el documental y el humor".

En El Hoyo - Juan Carlos Rulfo (2006)

2011-04-05T04:54:00.000-07:00

Duración: 83 min
País: Mexico
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492464/

Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo

Synopsis:

Una leyenda mexicana cuenta que el diablo pide almas para que los puentes al construirse no se caigan. Esta película sigue la historia de varios de los obreros que participan en la construcción del segundo piso, en el Periférico de la ciudad de México DF. Aunque en realidad todo esto no es más que un pretexto, la idea es acercarnos a la cotidianidad, a los sueños y a la extraordinaria dignidad para vivir de los trabajadores con su humor, romance y los pequeños momentos que culminarán en el alimento que el diablo necesita, para que ese puente permanezca en pie.

Juan Carlos Rulfo, hijo de Juan, el célebre escritor de Pedro Páramo, ha rodado hasta ahora varios documentales que apenas han pasado las fronteras de su país, México, como Del olvido al no me acuerdo. En esta ocasión, Rulfo muestra la vida cotidiana de los obreros que construyen un hoyo, donde se colocará uno de los pilares de un gigantesco puente en la capital mexicana. Rulfo ha convivido durante algún tiempo con estos trabajadores, lo que se traduce en la enorme confianza con que le responden a cuestiones de lo más heterogéneo. Sin perder un tono amable, Rulfo compone una buena muestra de cine social. No se ha propuesto hacer un cine de denuncia, ni entrar en cuestiones políticas, pero tampoco oculta partes negativas de la realidad, como las precarias condiciones laborales las que algunos de ellos trabajan y la falta de seguridad, que se traduce en accidentes fatales.

Pero Rulfo no se queda sólo en eso, sino que profundiza en cuestiones antropológicas, como los sueños y aspiraciones de las personas que entrevista. Son personas humildes, sin mucha formación, algunos con problemas con el alcohol, pero que lanzan comentarios que dan que pensar, sobre sus lazos familiares, que sirven como sustento para resistir la dura jornada laboral; otros se declaran creyentes, y hablan de su fe con una gran sencillez, y la sabiduría que da la experiencia vital. Para Rulfo, el hoyo sería una metáfora de la realidad, que su película trata de iluminar parcialmente.

A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.

Review by imdb user Lee Eisenberg;

"I had never heard of "En el hoyo" (called "In the Pit" in English) when I turned it on. It sure impressed me. Focusing on some construction men working on an enormous freeway in Mexico City, the documentary really hits you. It shows how these men do this so as to support their families, but always maintain their sanity and, above all, a sense of humor (one man entertains himself by looking up the dresses of women in passing cars). The men talk about terrible things happening in the building process, but understand that this is their only option.

It's worth noting that this documentary is not a polemic. It shows a grim topic while letting the audience make their own decisions. The end shows one long shot of the freeway, forcing the audience to wonder something: given what the interviewees talked about, how often have similar things happened during the erection of this thing? Not to mention that Mexico City's already foul air will probably get even worse with more freeways.

Anyway, I recommend it."

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2011-04-05T02:16:00.000-07:00

LEER "Intervenir en la realidad": usos políticos del video indígena en Bolivia - Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

LEER "Visualidad y sentidos de pertenencia". La fotografía etnográfica desde un emisor qolla - Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

LEER "Entre Didjazá y la Zandunga: iconografía y autorepresentación indígena de las mujeres del istmo de Tehuantepec" - Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

La Maison vide - Stéphane Breton (2008)

2011-03-27T12:13:00.000-07:00

Duración: 52
Idioma: Ingles y Español con subtitulos en Ingles
País: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/actualites/l-usage-du-monde-the-ways

Director: Stéphane Breton

Synopsis:

New Mexico, 2008. An old Spanish community from the banks of rio Pecos.

On the border of North America, a small Spanish community dating from the early 19th century is surviving, or rather quietly dying away, in the midst of an arid region eroded by rust, beer and rising sand. Carcasses of agricultural implements and dead bodies of cows are strewn over the cruel earth. This world gives an impression of a delicious rout. The chaos of ordinary days of a place bereft of anything and everything does not make existence more difficult, but it makes it lighter.

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"Visual Anthropology" VOL.11 (1993) - VOL.16 (1999)

2011-03-26T08:09:00.000-07:00

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Dances of the Kwakiutl - Robert Gardner (1951) DVDRip VO

2011-03-26T06:03:00.000-07:00

Duración: 9 min.
Idioma: Ingles.
País: USA

Director: Robert Gardner

Synopsis:
Dances of the Kwakiutl is composed of fragments filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia. They were made during a performance by those still familiar with the tradition of 'Hamatsa' or cannibal dancing. This type of dance was brought to impressive artistic heights by the Kwakiutl people of the Northwest coast.

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Paul dans sa vie - Rémi Mauger (2005)

2011-03-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

Duración: 110+20+10
Idioma: french
País: France
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0792985/

Director: Rémi Mauger

Cast:
Paul Bedel-----------------himself
Fabrice Adde---------------himself
Françoise Bedel------------herself
Marie-Jeanne Bedel---------herself
Robert Bedel---------------himself

Synopsis: Documentary looking at the life of Paul Bedel, a farmer from Auderville (Normandy, France) who is about to retire.

'I'm not part of folklore... I'm in my life' claims the 75-year-old, who lives with his 2 sisters. None of them has ever got married. They have instead dedicated their lives to running the family farm.

The camera follows them as they complete their daily tasks in the fields and indoors (such as making butter and cider). Paul's remarks and meditations on life - past and present - are at the centre of the film, which also offers picturesque views of the region of La Hague.

'Paul dans sa vie' provides an insight into rural life from a variety of angles: historical, sociological, linguistic and to some extent philosophical. Indeed, it shows us how the countryside and its people have evolved over the years - fewer people have been working in agriculture; more and more locals have started working for a factory opened in the 1960s: a nuclear waste reprocessing plant. Paul is one of the last farmers to have stuck to his land in the area. Sometimes the film is subtitled - even for French people - when he and his sisters speak with a strong local accent or use their Norman dialect. Overall, this touching documentary offers a reflexion on different aspects of life - the passing of time, inheritance, the importance of nature, general existential questions, etc. Focussing on the example of a local French farmer, it becomes universal.

Note: the main file contains the documentary.
The supplementary two videos, show the film crew and the Bedel family after the film.

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Betelnut Bisnis - Chris Owen (2004)

2011-03-23T16:22:00.000-07:00

Betelnut is one of the most widely used narcotics in the world. In the coastal areas of Papua New Guinea, where it is grown, it has been a socially acceptable stimulant since ancestral times, but in the central Highlands where the majority of the population live, it is a relatively recent arrival. Many Highlanders have come to depend on betelnut, not only because of their addiction to the drug, but also for their livelihood, trading small quantities of the nut up from the coast to sell in their local markets. For many families, the betelnut trade is the only source of cash income to pay for such basic necessities as food, school fees and medicine.

This is the story of one such family in the Highlands – Lukas Kaima and his wife Kopu - as told by their friend and close neighbour, Chris Owen, an Australian expatriate. The Kaimas are settlers from the Eastern Highlands, without land of their own, living on a small plot on the outskirts of Goroka town by arrangement with traditional landowners. The soil is too poor to grow their own food and they have to rely on cash earnings to survive. Lukas sometimes finds part-time work as a nightwatchman and labourer, but decides to try his hand at the betelnut trade to see if he can earn some extra money to make ends meet. The film follows Lukas and his wife as they try to make a success of their business travelling to and from the coast on the betelnut trail.

BETELNUT BISNIS is an often humorous story of resilient people who have few material possessions but who face each new day with dignity and a quiet determination. As they go about their travels, the film presents us with a vivid portrait of present-day life in Papua New Guinea - not the "doom and gloom" stories that dominate the daily news in the Australian media, but the day-to-day realities of life for "grass roots" citizens.

Chris Owen has contributed directly or indirectly to almost every significant documentary made in Papua New Guinea over the last three decades – whether as director, cinematographer, editor or as adviser and trouble-shooter. He has also made a series of internationally acclaimed documentaries of his own, including THE RED BOWMAN, MAN WITHOUT PIGS and the recent award winning BRIDEWEALTH FOR A GODDESS. He also directed TUKANA a Melanesian feature film set in Bougainville. In the last few years Chris Owen has also served as Director of the National Film Institute of Papua New Guinea and has trained and worked with a team of Melanesian filmmakers, some of whom contributed to the production of BETELNUT BISNIS.

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2011-03-20T08:29:00.000-07:00

Duración: 89
Idioma: Bahasa Indonesian (con subtitulos incrustado en Holandes y soft en Ingles)
País: Indonesia y Holanda
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113840/

Director: Vincent Monnikendam

Synopsis:
Monnikedam reunió películas en nitrato conservadas en los archivos nacionales y rodadas por cameraman holandeses desde 1912 a 1933 en las colonias de las Indias. Compilando más de 200 películas realizó esta obra maestra, donde muestra cómo gobernaban los holandeses sus colonias y la imagen que ellos querían de su actuación social a través de los films. Los cantos y poemas dan a los indígenas una voz que atraviesa esta fachada, conduciéndonos a otro universo, todavía desconocido para nosotros.
Cineojo

"Monnikedam es un cineasta y antropólogo holandés que hizo un trabajo llamado Mother Dao, “The Turtlelike”. Juega mucho con el cine colonial de Indonesia, cuando fue la colonización holandesa en 1920 y está recolocando este material en la política de fines del siglo XX. Es difícil de explicar, pero digamos que está llevando una perspectiva antropológica a este proyecto pero a la vez es muy juguetón en este esfuerzo, entonces hay excepciones.(...) Ese es un ejemplo en el que realizadores y antropólogos trabajan muy cerca de la comunidad y básicamente dicen “úsanos”o “¿como podemos ayudarlos a facilitar lo que quieren hacer?”, pero esos son los ejemplos sobresalientes de personas que son especialmente activistas sociales, pero que están usando las herramientas de la antropología y del cine, para hacer la diferencia."
Eliane Charnov

A spare and elegant film constructed entirely from archival nitrate footage shot between 1912 and 1932 in the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Luminous anthropological images are set against a simple soundtrack of birdcalls, bells and murmuring voices, punctuated occasionally by native poems and songs.

Director's statement:

More than 260,000 meters of 35mm documentary nitrate film footage from the Dutch film archives served as the source material for this documentary. In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. The usual commentary has been omitted and in its place poems and songs in Bahasa Indonesia have been included in a digital sound composition.

In Mother Dao the Turtlelike, the viewer sees how the colonial machinery in the 1920s was implanted in a world so different from Western Europe. He or she will witness various phenomena and aspects of that colonial enterprise - then at its peak - which, thanks to cinematography, were recorded. The shoots for the more than one thousand 35mm nitrate documentary films took place in the Dutch West Indies between 1912 and about 1933. All belong to the collections of the two Dutch film archives, and in the meantime the main corpus has been preserved.

The documentary starts with a shortened version of the legend of the inhabitants of Nias, an isle to the West of Sumatra. It was told that the earth was created by Mother Dao. When standing on the beach, the inhabitants of the island could see the horizon half curved like the shell of a turtle. So they called the creator of the world 'Mother Dao, the turtlelike.' At some point in time eternal, she collected the dirt off her body and kneaded it on her knee into a ball. That was the world. Later, she became pregnant, without knowing a man, and gave birth to a girl and a boy. They were the first people and they lived in a fertile world. And it was this fertile world that attracted the Europeans, and especially the Dutch, in their colonial endeavors. —Vincent Monnikendam

Mother Dao the Turtlelike has been screened at forty-eight international film festivals and has received eighteen awards and prizes, among them five Golden Awards. The film was proclaimed the best Dutch film of 1995.

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Aux pays des Dogons - Marcel Griaule

2011-03-18T01:11:00.000-07:00

Idioma: Frances, sin subtitulos.
Tamaño: 148 MB
Duración: 10:49

Director:
Marcel Griaule

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To anybody concerned with the subject of commentary in ethnographic film, the pioneer cinematographic work by Marcel Griaule carried out in the 'thirties as a complement to his writings on the Dogon appears an invaluable document.

Standing at the crossroads of the narrative in travelogs, focused on the explorer himself, and of a description concerned with the conduct of the populations filmed, the commentaries of Sous les masques noirs ("Behind the black masks") and Au pays des Dogon ("In the Dogon land") exhibit one of the very first achievements of talking ethnographic commentary.

When closely considered, the mise en scegravene of these two commentaries appears dependent on the patterns required by the professional production of current travelogs of that time, on which the editing of Griaule's films mainly relied. The priority of writing, before the oral form, is one of its typical features. Jean Rouch conceived the commentary of his first film, Au pays des mages noirs ("In the black magis' land"), partly from this pattern before exploring entirely new forms of commenting speech.

Fashioning Faith - Yasmin Moll

2011-03-17T12:23:00.000-07:00

Fashioning Faith: a documentary by Yasmin Moll from Yasmin Moll on Vimeo.

Log Line:
At the intersections of faith and fashion, designers explore what it means to be young, female and Muslim in today’s America.

Synopsis:
Muslim clothing designers in New York City struggle to combine high fashion with a high sense of piety. Their designs aim to stay true to Islamic principles of feminine modesty while attempting to break into a fashion scene marked more by exposed shoulders than covered hair. In the process these young women designers are redefining what it means to be a modern Muslim in contemporary America.

La Directora:
Yasmin Moll is a student in socio-cultural anthropology as well as the culture and media program. Her main research interests relate to the intersections of neo-liberal globalization, transnational media, and religion and nationhood in Egypt. Her side interests include Muslim-American narratives of belonging and “Islamic feminism.” She has an MA in Near and Middle East Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in the UK and a BSc in International Politics from Georgetown University. Yasmin is of Swiss-Egyptian heritage and grew up in the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Bahrain and Egypt.

2011-03-17T03:19:00.000-07:00

Consultar el Listado de Bibliografía del programa de Antropología Visual de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Articulos ordenados en las siguientes categorias:

Historia del cine y la antropologia
Introduccion a la antropologia visual
Experiencias en antropologia visual ingresar
El uso de la fotografia en investigacion
Cuestiones de metodologia
Antropologia y reflexividad
Internet, hipertextualidad y nuevas tecnologias

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Antropologia visual argentina: apuntes sobre una bibliografía “imperfecta” - Carmen Guarini

2011-03-16T12:15:00.000-07:00

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Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism -Jerry W. Leach (1976)

2011-03-16T11:30:00.000-07:00

Duración: 53 min.
Idioma: Ingles & Kilivila (Subtitulos en Ingles)

Director: Jerry W. Leach

Synopsis:
One of the world's best-known and most honored ethnographic films, this classic documentary depicts the many modifications made by Trobriand Islanders, in Papua New Guinea, to the traditional British game of cricket. The film demonstrates how the islanders have transformed the game into an outlet for tribal rivalry, mock warfare, community interchange, sexual innuendo, and an afternoon of riotous fun.

The Trobriand Islands are a small group of coral islands off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The 15,000 inhabitants have one of the most famous traditional cultures in the world, largely resulting from the research and publications of Bronislaw Malinowski, one of the founders of modern anthropology.

"Trobriand Cricket" is a fascinating and utterly compelling ethnographic document about cultural creativity among the Trobriand Islanders. The film shows how the Trobrianders have taken the very controlled game of British cricket, first introduced to them some 70 years earlier by Methodist missionaries, and changed it into an outlet for mock warfare and intervillage competition, political reputation-building among leaders, eroticized dancing and chanting, and wild entertainment. The game is a major symbolic statement of the Trobrianders' feelings and experiences under British colonialism.

Trobriand cricket players still bat, bowl, score runs, field, and make outs. The sides, however, are no longer eleven players plus a reserve but are made up from all the men of the competing villages. Teams average 60 players or more, the main rule being that the sides must be roughly equal. Each team brings its own "umpire" who overtly declares outs and keeps his own side under control while secretly performing war magic against the opposition. The main purpose is not to win by scoring but to put on a fine display.

A central feature of the film is the chanting and dancing that are a major part of the repertoire of each cricket team. Each side has a varied set of chants and dances created and choreographed around its name and symbolic theme. Intercut film sequences of predatory seabirds, marching soldiers, airplanes, and the preparation of tapioca show the concrete imagery that inspired some of the teams' creations.

The performances occur as the teams march on and off the field and as they celebrate each out with a dance between the wickets in the middle of the ground. The symbolism of these events is heavily laden with double meanings, sexually provocative innuendo aimed at the female spectators, and ritualized insults for the opposing side.

The bulk of the film follows an actual game, played between two teams called "The Scarlet Reds" and "The Airplane." This game illustrates all the basic rules. The film concludes with an exchange of yams and betelnut between the two sides, climaxing the politics underlying the event.

"Trobriand Cricket" is one of the most important and most celebrated ethnographic documentaries ever made. It is a timeless classic that is sure to inspire amazement, thought, and discussion in a wide variety of courses in anthropology and any other discipline that studies human culture. It was produced by Jerry W. Leach and Gary Kildea, and directed by Jerry W. Leach.
Reviews

"One of the most powerful and interesting ethnographic films." -- Journal of American Folklore

"One of the most unusual anthropological films ever made." -- Margaret Mead Film Festival Program Guide

A central feature of the film is the chanting and dancing that are a major part of the repertoire of each cricket team. Each side has a varied set of chants and dances created and choreographed around its name and symbolic theme. Intercut film sequences of predatory seabirds, marching soldiers, airplanes, and the preparation of tapioca show the concrete imagery that inspired some of the teams' creations.

The performances occur as the teams march on and off the field and as they celebrate each out with a dance between the wickets in the middle of the ground. The symbolism of these events is heavily laden with double meanings, sexually provocative innuendo aimed at the female spectators, and ritualized insults for the opposing side.

The bulk of the film follows an actual game, played between two teams called "The Scarlet Reds" and "The Airplane." This game illustrates all the basic rules. The film concludes with an exchange of yams and betelnut between the two sides, climaxing the politics underlying the event.

"Trobriand Cricket" is one of the most important and most celebrated ethnographic documentaries ever made. It is a timeless classic that is sure to inspire amazement, thought, and discussion in a wide variety of courses in anthropology and any other discipline that studies human culture. It was produced by Jerry W. Leach and Gary Kildea, and directed by Jerry W. Leach.
Reviews

"One of the most powerful and interesting ethnographic films." -- Journal of American Folklore

"One of the most unusual anthropological films ever made." -- Margaret Mead Film Festival Program Guide

"Quite apart from the obvious nostalgic interest for any social anthropologist, the film represents something of a breakthrough in methodology. It is not so much an ethnographic image of a famous corner of the Disappearing World viewed by sympathetic European outsiders, as a piece of propaganda by indigenous Trobrianders in favour of their national game, which, with good reason, they consider to be far superior to the English 'rubbish' from which it is derived." -- Sir Edmund Leach, President, Royal Anthropological Institute, London

"The film began with the sort of stereotyped image that one is used to after years of television. In this case, it was of so-called 'stone-age men' leaping about in disorganized chaos. Slowly, clearly, the film took that stereotype apart. Eventually, every element in that initial image had been explained. By doing this, it illuminated the lives of the people it filmed. It revealed their wit and humor. It allowed them to say what they thought about us, the whites. It gave them the dignity of subtitles. But it also did more. By using film of marching Western soldiers, English-style cricket matches and the like, it exposed our own hidden ceremonials. Instead of clichés about basic man, Trobriand Cricket said something vivid and pertinent about homo ludens." -- Prof. Brian Winston, National Film School of Great Britain
Awards

* George Sadoul Award, Paris Film Festival
* Margaret Mead Film Festival honoree
* American Film and Video Festival Blue Ribbon Award
* American Anthropological Assn. honoree
* Society for Visual Anthropology honoree
* Royal Anthropological Institute (Great Britain) honoree
* Selected for screening at more than a dozen major film festivals worldwide

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11.000 km from New York - Orzu Sharipov (2006)

2011-03-16T05:44:00.000-07:00

Duración: 21
Idioma: Dari, Paschtu & Uzbek con subtitulos en Ingles
Pais: Tajikistan

Director: Orzu Sharipov

Synopsis: A barren landscape in northern Afghanistan. Fighting is going on. What remains are charred landscapes and people fleeing to the most remote areas of the steppe. In November 2001, the bloody battles of the Taliban force thousands of Afghans to seek refuge near the border to Tajikistan. Orzu Sharipov documents everyday life in the refugee camps. Children are born, they play and go to makeshift schools. A performance takes place in a community square: An actor rehearses different ways of crying together with the audience. A high-rise is built using a tarpaulin. With flying cloths, two boys re-enact the airliners that then destroyed the towers.

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"Visual Anthropology" VOL.6 (1993) - VOL.10 (1999)

2011-03-14T15:07:00.000-07:00

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"Visual Anthropology" VOL.1 (1987) - VOL.5 (1993)

2011-03-13T15:08:00.000-07:00

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African Carving: A Dogon Kanaga Mask (1974)

2011-03-12T02:27:00.000-08:00

Idioma/Language: Ingles/English
Thomas Blakely and Eliot Elisofon
in collaboration with Robert Gardner for The Film Study Center at Harvard University
color, 19 min, 1974

The Kanaga mask is used in deeply sacred rituals by the Dogon people of Mali. Carving this mask is as important a ritual as the ceremonies in which the mask is used. The carver, a blacksmith, finds the proper tree and, in a secret cave outside the village, he shapes the mask with gestures which repeat the movement of the dancers who will wear it. When a dancer wears the Kanaga mask he becomes the Creator symbolically. He touches the ground with his mask and directs a soul to Heaven. Although these dances are now frequently performed for the public, the meaning of Kanaga is retained by the Dogon who fear, respect and depend on the power of the mask.

This film contains Dama dance material from the Wunderman Foundation.

Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards
Forum for Visual Anthropology, Switzerland, 2009

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The Ax Fight (1975)

2011-03-11T16:02:00.000-08:00

Duración: 30
Idioma: English
Pais: U.S.
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321347/

Director: Timothy Asch, Napoleon Chagnon

Synopsis: The film has four parts and operates on a number of analytical levels. It opens with a map of the region where the village is located and then proceeds to about ten minutes of virtually unedited film footage of combat among multiple participants armed with clubs, machetes, and axes. This represents the entirety of the film shot of the fight, which lasted about half an hour. Many of the shots and accompanying audio reflect the fact that the Westerners were taken by surprise and that they remained in ignorance about the cause of the fight until some time later.
The fight, which occurred on the second day of Asch and Chagnon's arrival to the village on February 28, 1971, is presented to the viewer as it was experienced by the anthropologist and filmmaker, as chaotic and unstructured violence. The second part of the Ax Fight, however, replays the events in slow motion while Chagnon explains who the combatants are and describes their relationship to one another. Although they initially believe the fight occurred because of an incestuous relationship, the anthropologists learn that this is not the case and that the fight is the latest manifestation of long standing hostility between a faction that lives in the village and a faction that is among a party of visitors. The fight is explained as "a ritualized contest, not a brawl" in which combatants make a relatively orderly progression from less lethal weapons to more lethal ones and people choose sides in the dispute on the basis of kinship obligations and shared histories. Eventually, elders (who tend to have conflicting loyalties) step in to help end the conflict.
The third part of the film uses a number of kinship diagrams to further elaborate on these family bonds and explains how kinship and political systems are often interchangeable in Yanomamo life.
The final part of the film replays an edited version of the fight, intended to illustrate the effect that the process of editing has on the construction of anthropological knowledge.
In 2007, The Ax Fight was re-examined by filmmaker Adam Curtis in his documentary program The Trap. Curtis interviewed Chagnon and put to him the assertion of Professor Brian Ferguson and others that much of the Yanamamo violence, and particularly its intensity, was in very strongly influenced by the presence of Westerners giving individuals goods, which were then fought over - in this case the goods were highly prized and useful machetes. Chagnon, however, insisted that his presence had had no influence whatsoever on the situation.
Curtis then asked, "You don't think a film crew in the middle of a fight in a village has an effect?" Chagnon replied, "No, I don't," and immediately walked out of the interview.

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Domestic Violence 1 & 2 (2001-2002)

2011-03-08T13:05:00.000-08:00

Duración: 195 min
Idioma: Ingles/English
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305489/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis: With DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman (HIGH SCHOOL, TITICUT FOLLIES) turns his unflinching eye on a topic that society has ignored for far too long. Rather than film actual domestic disputes, a la COPS, Wiseman instead takes a much less exploitative approach, and, in so doing, has created a deeply intelligent, challenging work that will no doubt spark serious discussions wherever it is exhibited (most likely on PBS, with whom the director has a longstanding relationship). Focusing on The Spring, Tampa, which is Florida's largest shelter for abused women and their children, Wiseman's objective camera allows a group of these distraught women to tell their own painful stories. As each new victim bravely shares her tale of horror, it becomes painfully clear just how convoluted and troubling a problem domestic violence actually is, a claim that Wiseman supports technically, through his use of extremely long takes and unobtrusive editing. At 196 minutes, the experience is a draining one, to say the least. But it is stimulating in a way that most films, documentary or otherwise, are not. Staying true to the formula that has made him a cinematic legend, Frederick Wiseman proves once again that there is far more drama in everyday life than in the multiplexes.

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Duración: 240
Idioma: English/Ingles
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315507/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis: The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband while he was trying to restrain her from getting back in her car and leaving after an argument. The officers explain that she has committed a battery and thereby earned herself an inescapable arrest and overnight stay in jail because by law they have no discretion. This sets the stage for two hours of court proceedings before three different judges, each trying to apply the Florida domestic violence laws. Though it gets repetitive, it also is fascinating to try to figure out what to do with such issues as restraining orders, parental visits, child support and punishment as each witness testifies, and to see how the judges react.

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State Legislature - Frederick Wiseman (2007)

2011-03-03T13:59:00.000-08:00

Duración: 216 min
Idioma: Ingles
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043871/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Descripción: Uno de los grandes maestros estadounidenses del direct-cinema, Frederick Wiseman, lleva el estilo al paroxismo con State Legislature. Sin entrevistas, sin comentarios y menos aún voces en off se interna durante casi cuatro horas en el trabajo de la legislatura de Idaho, un estado de poco más de 1,3 millón de habitantes del noroeste de Estados Unidos.

La cámara omnipresente y minuciosa de Wiseman muestra las sesiones legislativas en las que se discuten algunas cuestiones controversiales: la desregulación de los servicios públicos, la violencia escolar, la separación de la Iglesia y del Estado, la prohibición de fumar en los lugares públicos, el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. Entre uno y otro debate se ven curiosidades, charlas de pasillo y la labor cotidiana de uno de los tres poderes del Estado: desde las visitas guiadas de estudiantes hasta la limpieza del edificio. Sin preámbulos, el director nos mete de cabeza en cada segmento y hay que ir armando la situación con los pedazos sueltos que van apareciendo en pantalla.

Lobbys, contradicciones, aciertos y lisas y llanas imbecilidades pasan por el documental, que exhibe sin condenar pero con una mirada crítica las complejidades, riquezas y limitaciones del sistema democrático.

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"STATE LEGISLATURE", DOCUMENTAL DE WISEMAN.
El espíritu de la democracia
Por Luciano Monteagudo.

Este año, el Bafici tiene una sección llamada "Democracias", que incluye media docena de documentales con orígenes y estilos de lo más variados, desde el japonés Campaign, de Kazuhiro Soda, hasta Cocalero, de Alejandro Landes, que siguen respectivamente las campañas de un histriónico candidato a una intendencia de los suburbios de Tokio y la de Evo Morales a la presidencia de Bolivia. Pero si hay un film en el Bafici que no sólo defiende sino también define como ninguno la esencia y el espíritu de la democracia, que es capaz de dar cuenta de su complejidad, su riqueza y también de sus limitaciones, ése es State Legislature, el flamante documental de ese maestro del género que es el estadounidense Frederick Wiseman.

En casi 40 años de trabajo, Wiseman ha construido un cuerpo de obra ejemplar, dedicado casi en su totalidad a revisar a fondo, con una mirada siempre crítica, el funcionamiento de las instituciones de su país, desde la salud pública hasta la política de viviendas. Entre sus films se encuentran clásicos absolutos del mejor documental, como Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1968) Juvenile Court (1973) Welfare (1975) Public Housing (1997) y Domestic Violence (2001). Y State Legislature, que viene de estrenarse en la última Berlinale, debe sumarse a esa lista como uno de sus picos más altos.

Con su habitual método puramente observacional, que prescinde por completo de narrador, entrevistas o explicaciones, Wiseman –quizás el más perfecto exponente del Direct Cinema– se interna aquí en la Legislatura de Idaho (una réplica más pequeña del Capitolio de Washington) y pone su micrófono y su vieja cámara 16 mm –no necesita más– a registrar todo lo que allí sucede, desde las visitas escolares hasta las sesiones ordinarias, pasando por la reuniones de comisión. Y, milagro, lo que a priori podría suponerse una empresa destinada al tedio se convierte en sus manos en un proyecto fascinante, que va creciendo a medida que avanzan las tres horas y media de duración del film.

Con interludios dedicados a exponer curiosidades o minucias cotidianas del edificio (del cual Wiseman, como el hombre sabio que es, sabe reconocer su fuerte valor simbólico), la película está estructurada por una serie de grandes secuencias, cada una dedicada al debate de un tema en particular, de esos que hoy agitan la agenda política de los Estados Unidos. Así, pasan por State Legislature la desregulación de los servicios públicos, el matrimonio homosexual, la violencia escolar, la separación de la Iglesia y del Estado y la prohibición de fumar en los lugares públicos.

"Una legislatura es la institución representativa más importante de una sociedad democrática –dice Wiseman–. Sus actos u omisiones afectan todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas y establecen las reglas, valores y normas que luego rigen instituciones como la policía, las escuelas, las fuerzas armadas, la salud y el sistema legal". Plenamente consciente de esta verdad que tantas veces se olvida, Wiseman aguza su ojo crítico como una lupa pero no deja de reconocer la calidad y la altura cívica de los debates. Así, State Legislature se convierte en una invitación al ciudadano común a participar activamente de la vida política (una premisa casi subversiva en los tiempos que corren en los Estados Unidos) y en una auténtica oda a la democracia representativa.

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STATE LEGISLATURE shows the day-to-day activities of the Idaho Legislature, including committee meetings, debates of the House and Senate, informal discussions, meetings with lobbyists, constituents, the public and the press. The workings of a democratic government are not of interest solely to Americans, but, because so many countries in the world are currently trying to adopt a democratic form of government, the issues presented have relevance on a global scale. The film is an example of the achievements, values, constraints and limitations of the democratic process.

In the Idaho Legislature, Wiseman found a democratic institution that he could admire. In an interview with the New York Times, he said,

“It’s not about how the votes came out on specific issues and my taking a partisan view about the results, but it was more to show the process — unless it sounds pretentious — of how democracy works. The debates, the committee hearings, the discussions in the corridor: I was very impressed with the seriousness with which they took the task and the civility toward each other and their respect for the process.”

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On The Spring Ice - Sarah Elder & Leonard Kamerling (1975)

2011-03-03T13:53:00.000-08:00

Duración: 45
Idioma: Yup (Subtitulos en Ingles)
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.der.org/films/on-the-spring-ice.html

Director: Sarah Elder & Leonard Kamerling

Synopsis:
Walrus as well as whales are hunted by the Eskimos of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As the film opens, an old man tells of the dangers of moving ice, how people used to drift on such ice and never return. A cluster of men stand on a snowy rooftop, scanning the sea ice for walrus, when one spots a skin boat in distress far out on the ice. The crew had not come home the night before, and now were drifting toward Siberia. Long ago, there was nothing that could have been done to save them. Today, the men call the Coast Guard. The next day, preparations for another walrus hunt are made. The hunters load the boat and travel fifty miles out to sea, where they spot two walrus sunning themselves on an ice floe. "Don't move," one hunter tells the camera. The walrus are shot, admired, butchered on the ice, and loaded on to the boat. Back in the village, the meat is cut again and hung to dry.

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Gestes du repas - Luc de Heusch (1958)

2011-03-01T13:13:00.000-08:00

Duración: 23
Idioma: Frances(Subtitulos en Ingles .srt)
Pais: Belgica
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269271/

Director: Luc de Heusch

Synopsis: This ethnographic film shows us the image of man at his table. An acute view of Belgium.

L'ethnologue luc de heusch filme ces gestes répétitifs qui semblent anodins et qui révèlent pourtant tant d'une culture particulière et d'une civilisation. Du matin jusqu'au soir, de l'installation du marché jusqu'au dîner, du repas quotidien et rapide au repas de fête, luc de heusch s'intéresse à toutes les classes sociales ...

Portrait de l'homme belge qui mange. Un régal. À l'origine, un essai d'ethnographie cinématographique, neutre et distant, destiné à définir les belges par la manière dont ils mangent. Et de fait, luc de heusch filme ses contemporains comme s'ils étaient des papous. À l'arrivée, une charge au vitriol contre un pays pas toujours drôle. Une fantaisie piégée comme un bonbon au poivre où, sous l'apparence sérieuse du documentaire, de petites fictions n'en finissent pas d'éclater comme par fragmentation. De l'art de mettre à sac toutes les conventions, art très belge.

Luc de Heusch-Biography

Luc de Heusch was born in Brussels on 7 May 1927. He studied the hamba-tetela societies of the Belgian Congo from 1952 to 1955, as a researcher at the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa. From 1955 to 1992 he taught social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), thereafter becoming professor emeritus. He has written numerous articles and books in his discipline, including five volumes published by Gallimard.
He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Social Sciences in Strasbourg. In 1966-68 and 1973-75 he was visiting professor at the fifth section (religious science) of the Practical School of Advanced Studies in Paris. While there he also directed the laboratory on belief systems in black Africa, associated with the CNRS. From 1987 to 1991 he was president of the scientific council of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren). He is a member of the Royal Belgian Academy for Sciences, Letters and the Arts.

His passion for art has never faltered. From 1949 to 1951 he lived in a community of artists called the Ateliers du Marais alongside the painter Alechinsky, who brought him into the COBRA movement as a writer and film-maker. He subsequently devoted various articles and films to his friends Alechinsky, Dotremont and Reinhoud, as well as to Magritte and Ensor.

He learned the art of filming as assistant to Henri Storck (1947-49) during his final studies at ULB. He is currently President of the Fonds Henri Storck. Long ago, when Storck took him to Paris to assist with the shooting the film Rubens, Professor Georges Smets, who would become the first president of CIFE (see below), told him "I hope you develop nicely". Luc de Heusch made ethnographic and historical films in Africa: Rwanda, tableaux d’une féodalité pastorale (Rwanda, Scenes from a Pastoral Feudalism) (1956), Fête chez les Hamba (Hamba Celebration) (1956, with a new version in 1998), Sur les traces du renard pâle (On the Tracks of the Pale Fox) (1984); Une République devenue folle: Rwanda 1884-94 (A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1884-94) (1996). He is also the author of sociological portraits of Belgium which have their origin in a sort of ethno-fiction: Gestes du repas (Mealtime Gestures) (1958), Les Amis du plaisir (The Friends of Pleasure) (1962), Les Amis du plaisir trente ans après (The Friends of Pleasure Thirty Years On) (1995). He evoked the chaotic history of his country, torn apart by the quarrel between the Flemish and the Walloons, in Quand j’étais Belge (When I Was Belgian) (1999). He also directed the feature film Jeudi on chantera comme dimanche (Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday) (1967), shot in the industrial quarter of Liège, where at that time the workers were trapped by the so-called consumer economy.

Alongside his friend Jean Rouch, Luc de Heusch was one of the champions of visual anthropology in his role as deputy secretary general of the CIFE (the International Committee on Ethnographic Film), which became CIFES in 1958 with the addition of the adjective 'sociological', at the instigation of Edgar Morin. And it was Morin who wrote the preface for his pioneering study for UNESCO Cinema and social sciences: a survey of ethnographic and sociological film (1962)

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La Punition - Jean Rouch (1962)

2011-03-01T13:07:00.000-08:00

Duración: 53 min
Idioma: Frances
Pais: Francia
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210242/

Director: Jean Rouch

Synopsis:
So lazy and unmotivated, Nadine was expelled from the philosophy class. One day of freedom left? No, soon she got bored. She tried to reach her dream, escaping with others. At first with a young student of geography. Then she met her high school friend. After drifting through Paris, finally she came across a 40 year old man full of generosity, experience and money...

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Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter (1988)

2011-03-01T12:55:00.000-08:00

Duración: 90
Idioma: Ingles y Yup
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929487/

Director: Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling

Synopsis: Uksuum Cauyai: Drums of Winter, also referred to only as Drums of Winter (1988) is a ethnographic documentary on the culture of the Yup'ik people, focusing primarily on dance, music, and potlatch traditions in the community of Emmonak, on the shore of the Bering Sea. The film was produced through a "community-collaborative process" in which the subjects of the documentary had significant input as to the film's content and presentation.[1] As a result, the film features conversations with individual Yup'ik in place of "the voice-over commentary by an unseen narrator that destroys the cinematic integrity of so many so-called ethnographic films".[2]
Drums of Winter won awards at a number of film festivals, including the American Film Festival in 1989, the International Ethnographic Film Festival in 1990, the Alaska International Film Festival in 1995, the Festival of the Native Americas in 1996, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival in 2000. In 2006, Drums of Winter was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

"My favorite film music is in The Drums of Winter... This music was not composed for the film. The music is the subject of the film. In The Drums of Winter we see and hear traditional songs of the Yup'ik people of Western Alaska performed with dances in the intimate setting of the potlatch ceremony. The sound and the cinematography are equally strong. There is no narration, no one who tells us what to think. Rather than watching from the outside, we feel as though we're inside the dance house experiencing each moment with the community"

"Nothing that has been written about Yup'ik dancing comes close to the power of the Yup'ik commentary contained in The Drums of Winter. Nor does any previous film treatment of Yup'ik dancing communicate so well the historical and contemporary context of dance. The combination is extraordinary, accomplishing much more than either the written word or the un-narrated image in isolation. The result is an example of the best that documentary film can offer."

This feature-length documentary explores the traditional dance, music and spiritual world of the Yupik Eskimo people of Emmonak, a remote village at the mouth of the Yukon River on the Bering Sea coast.

The Drums of Winter gives an intimate look at a way of life of which most of us have seen only glimpses. Dance was once at the heart of Yupik Eskimo spiritual and social life. It was the bridge between the ancient and the new, the living and the dead and a person's own power and the greater powers of the unseen world.

In The Drums of Winter, the people of Emmonak tell us through actualities and interviews how their history, social values and spiritual beliefs are woven around the songs and dances that have been handed down to them through the generations. We also learn that it is not just old songs that are important; new songs and dance movements are created to reflect modern life with all its complexities. Each time a person gets up to dance, he is strengthening the continuity of the ages, and insuring the survival of his culture.

The film follows the elders of Emmonak as they prepare for the coming ceremonial gathering (potlatch) with a neighboring village. In the Kashim (qasgiq or men's house), they practice their songs and painstakingly work out the motions of the dances. Each movement has meaning and plays a part in telling a story. In the days before television, radio, bingo and weekly basketball games, dance was the sole means of entertainment.

Throughout the film, archival photographs and film footage accompany the words of early missionaries who brought Christianity to the area. These sequences provide a historical context for the film and give us a strong sense of the resilience of Yup'ik culture, having survived despite a century of missionary suppression.

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Los Herederos - Eugenio Polgovsky (2009)

2011-02-27T07:15:00.000-08:00

La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs (1967) aka The Goumbé of the Young

2011-02-26T00:26:00.000-08:00

Duración: 26 min
Idioma: Frances
Pais: France
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210080/

Director: Jean Rouch

Synopsis: In Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, the Association "La goumbé des jeunes noceurs" holds regular reunions to host a variety of events, including dance, exhibitions and concerts. With this organisation, people from various village communities, most of which came to try their luck in the city, can be united again, to keep their tradition alive and live in solidarity. Presentation by the General Secretary himself.

(cf. http://www.filmsdujeudi.com/fr/catalogue-film-goumbe-des-jeunes-noceurs-la-DGOUM01.html)

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La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (2009)

2011-02-25T00:09:00.000-08:00

Duración: 159
Idioma: Frances(subtitulos en ingles incrustados)
Pais: France-USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500496/

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Synopsis: In “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,” his 36th documentary in more than 40 years, Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into the stately and elegant Palais Garnier in Paris, observing rehearsals, staff meetings and, finally, performances of seven dances, including classics like “The Nutcracker” and spiky new work by younger choreographers. To say that the film, sumptuous in its length and graceful in its rhythm, is a feast for ballet lovers is to state the obvious and also to sell Mr. Wiseman’s achievement a bit short. Yes, this is one of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that.

You might as well say that his previous documentary, the enthralling three-and-a-half-hour “State Legislature,” is a must-see for devotees of Idaho politics. It certainly is, but its greater virtue, and the substance of Mr. Wiseman’s particular genius, is the way it transfixes you with the inner workings of an institution you may not otherwise care about. The observation of groups of people functioning in a clearly defined professional or social context has been Mr. Wiseman’s primary interest ever since his first film, “Titicut Follies,” which exposed the workings of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.

The Paris Opera Ballet is of course a more exalted place than either the Boise Statehouse or that grim New England penitentiary — its dancers are certainly easier on the eyes than legislators or social workers — but the quality of Mr. Wiseman’s attention is the same. His curiosity is boundless but also disciplined, and he forgoes explanation in favor of a visual version of what anthropologists call thick description.

In “La Danse” you watch closely as dancers and choreographers break complex movements down into their constituent gestures, a process that is at once tedious and entirely engrossing. Though all the rehearsing culminates in full-dress performance, “La Danse” really has no beginning, middle or end. It is, rather, about two kinds of time that exist outside traditional narrative frameworks: the long, slow, repetitive cycle in which institutions exist, and the fleeting moments of bodily motion and musical expression that make ballet such a singular and elusive art form.

All this makes the film sound remote, even abstract, but it is really the opposite. There are characters, events and miniature dramas that unfold in the course of the ballet company’s work. There is also a lot of talk, much of it provided by Brigitte Lefèvre, the troupe’s artistic director and a rhetorician in the grand French style. It is sometimes hard to follow what she is talking about, but her energy and cadences are mesmerizing.

And “La Danse,” among its other observations, emphasizes the distance between verbal analysis and physical movement. Dance is a vehicle of meaning and emotion, but it is also a technical undertaking consisting of minutely controlled muscular movements. What goes on in rehearsal is the negotiation between art and technique, and language is a paltry but necessary tool. One choreographer prattles on about “context” to a dancer who nods her head gamely but studies his body language more than his words. Another choreographer, an Anglophone working with French performers, forgoes words altogether, communicating his “notes” through a serious of hums and clucks, like a scat singer or a human beat box.

The performances that result from all this work — and that are upheld by the gritty business of fund-raising and nearly obstructed by French labor troubles — are ravishing and also a bit anticlimactic. By the time you see the dancers in costume, on a carefully lighted stage and accompanied by a full orchestra, you have attained an intriguing liminal status somewhere between spectator and performer.

If you did not already know the names of the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet — Aurélie Dupont and Laetitia Pujol stand out particularly — you will nonetheless have acquired an almost tactile sense of who they are. “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” wondered William Butler Yeats in his poem “Among School Children.” It’s a simple and also endlessly mysterious question, one that Mr. Wiseman, in his patient, meticulous, magical way, both restates and answers.

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At the Time of Whaling (1974)

2011-02-24T14:33:00.000-08:00

Duración: 38
Idioma: Ingles & Yup'ik con subtitulos en Ingles incrustados
Pais: USA
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321313/

Directores: Sarah Elder & Leonard Kamerling

Synopsis:

Gambell, Alaska is a Yup'ik-speaking Eskimo community on St. Lawrence Island on the Bering Sea. Here, as on the coast, sea mammals are still the major source of food. During their three-week Spring migration through the Bering Channel, whales are hunted using a combination of traditional organization and recently introduced technology such as motors and darting guns. A bowhead whale weighs about one ton per foot, and may reach seventy feet in length. Working together, even fifteen Eskimo skin boats with up to ten persons on each boat cannot assure a safe venture or the taking of a whale.

From a rooftop several men with binoculars view the sea ice for open water and other signs of migrating whales. Conditions are good as the men hoist their sails. Someone spots a whale and shouts the news through the CB radio, and the other boats drop sail, rev up their motors, and join the first boat. Together the fifteen boats capture the whale and tow it to the shore ice, where the men begin the three-day task of butchering and distributing the meat to the crew and to another village on the island. An old man recounts the way whaling used to be.

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Sayonara CP (1972) aka Goodbye CP

2011-02-16T10:29:00.000-08:00

Duración: 82 min.
Idioma: Japones (Subtitulos en Ingles y abajo en descarga subtitulos en castellano)
Pais: Japan
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234669/

Director: Kazuo Hara

Synopsis: Kazuo Hara's documentary about a group of Japanese people afflicted with cerebral palsy is raw and disturbing; its intent becomes clear early, during a long sequence where the CP patients are on the street soliciting donations for the charity they've set up. Overlaid on the sequence is a series of interviews where a man (presumably Hara) asks people in the crowd why they donated. More often than not, the answer is a variation on "I felt sorry for them," and the subsequent footage is a ragged roar of anger against that sort of belittling sympathy. Hara shows us what we're pitying and asks us if that is indeed what we feel.

The CP patients in this film are complex beings just like any one else, their minds trapped in bodies that don't obey their wills and mouths that can't always express what they want, and Hara is willing to show them just as that -- as three-dimensional beings capable of hatred, anger, lust, vice and such. There's a scene where the group goes out and picks fruit; this is then followed by an extended discussion of the males on their sexuality and descriptions about their loss of virginity.

Hara isn't letting anyone off the hook, not even himself; the centerpiece of the film is also a bit of a self-reflexive bromide, as well as an implicit middle finger to the objective school of documentary thought: Yokoto Hiroshi, a poet and the default main character of the film, is presiding over a meeting of the group when the subject of his wife's disapproval of the film project comes up. His wife, who is in the house at the time and is also afflicted with CP, enters to voice her feelings, which then escalates into a screaming argument. Hara is at the ready filming the whole thing, even when Hiroshi's wife demands him to stop.

Goodbye CP is a brutal, an uneasy and queasy film, but it's also necessary as possibly the most affecting and effective tirade against uncaring and/or ineffectual societial policies. When Hara brings the film full circle by getting Hiroshi on the street again, this time to perform his confrontational poetry, the indifference and rejection of the crowd says volumes and is concluded by one of the bleakest endings I have yet seen.

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2011-02-15T11:26:00.000-08:00

"DESCARGAR - DOWNLOAD Japanese Documentary Film (The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima) - Abe Mark Nornes"

Among Asian countries-where until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of central governments-Japan was exceptional for the vigor of its nonfiction film industry. And yet, for all its aesthetic, historical, and political interest, the Japanese documentary remains little known and largely unstudied outside of Japan. This is the first English-language study of the subject, an enlightening close look at the first fifty years of documentary film theory and practice in Japan.

Beginning with films made by foreigners in the nineteenth century and concluding with the first two films made after Japan's surrender in 1945, AbÃ© Mark Nornes moves from a "prehistory of the documentary," through innovations of the proletarian film movement, to the hardening of style and conventions that started with the Manchurian Incident films and continued through the Pacific War. Nornes draws on a wide variety of archival sources-including Japanese studio records, secret police reports, government memos, letters, military tribunal testimonies, and more-to chart shifts in documentary style against developments in the history of modern Japan.

Abe Mark Nornes is associate professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Program in Film and Video Studies.

Introduction

I came to write about Japanese documentary through a somewhat unusual route. Most historians dig into a segment of history with some sense of where they are and what they will find. They come to their subjects as scholars writing works of history. My approach has been far more roundabout. My introduction to the subject came when I was asked to coprogram, with Fukushima Yukio, a retrospective called “Nichi-Bei Eigasen” (Japan/America film wars) for the 1991 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. This event examined American and Japanese World War II–era documentaries covering the same themes or subject matter. We showed an American film and a Japanese film on a given subject back-toback, in a dialogical manner, so that the films implicitly commented on each other. In this manner, we explored the war cinema and the culture in both countries by comparing them with each other. The contrasts and connections that spontaneously emerged from these back-to-back screenings also taught us lessons for today’s televised version of the war film (our first research screenings at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C., happened to coincide with the start of the Gulf War). I had already studied the American war documentary and seen most of the major American films; the Japanese side, by way of contrast, was new territory. English-language materials had little to say on the matter. The standard histories by Barnouw and Barsam devote only a page or two, and both rely heavily on the observations of Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie.1 The latter’s less-than-glowing assessment argues that Japanese documentary was “influenced more by German kulturfilme than by the British school of documentary. There was a pseudo-scientific, pseudoartistic approach which occasionally invalidated the subject and which one still sees in many contemporary Japanese documentaries.”2 Reading such scathing criticism, we worried that the Japanese side would pale in comparison with the American war documentary, leaving us with a lopsided program. We began reading Japanese histories, paging through old Japanese periodicals, and finally started seeing the extant films themselves in regular trips to the National Film Center of Japan. Although the majority of the films may have confirmed Anderson and Richie’s assessment, many were quite good, even powerful. We were pleasantly surprised at the depth of the history into which we had plunged blindly. Its complexity meant that our attempts to research it did not exhaust the possibilities for new, fascinating, and important areas of study. Although these efforts resulted in a book, we did not necessarily approach our work as scholars.3 We were film programmers, so our relationship to the films did not develop in the relatively solitary space between history and writing. This was a different style of history that involved screenings, reading, and constant discussions—between partners on how to structure a meaningful event, between audience members at festival screenings and discussion sessions, and among Japanese film historians ever since, as the event achieved some lasting notoriety in the Japanese film world. My experience of the films is inseparable from this involved process, and is in some sense the sum of those relationships.[...]

Contents

Note on Japanese Words and Names
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 A Prehistory of the Japanese Documentary
2 The Innovation of Prokino
3 A Hardening of Style
4 Stylish Charms: When Hard Style Becomes Hard Reality
5 The Last Stand of Theory
6 Kamei Fumio: Editing under Pressure
7 After Apocalypse: Obliteration of the Nation

2011-02-14T06:17:00.000-08:00

DESCARGAR - DOWNLOAD "Viewpoints Visual Anthropologists at Work - Mary Strong & Laena Wilder (2009)"

Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does not guarantee accurate and reliable work. Visual anthropology involves much more than media alone.

This book presents visual anthropology as a work-in-progress, open to the myriad innovations that the new audiovisual communications technologies bring to the field. It is intended to aid in contextualizing, explaining, and humanizing the storehouse of visual knowledge that university students and general readers now encounter, and to help inform them about how these new media tools can be used for intellectually and socially beneficial purposes.

Concentrating on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research, the book's fifteen contributors feature populations living on all of the world's continents as well as within the United States. The final chapter gives readers practical advice about how to use the most current digital and interactive technologies to present research findings.

Trinh T. Minh-Ha

2011-02-11T06:00:00.000-08:00

The Fourth Dimension (2001)

Runtime: 87
Language: English
Country: Vietnam
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314084/

Director: T. Minh-ha Trinh

Description:

Acclaimed filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha ventures into the digital realm with her stunning new feature, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, an incisive and insightful examination of Japan through its art, culture, and social rituals. As is the case with Trinh's previous films, her new video is a multi-layered work addressing issues around its central theme: the experience of time, the impossibility of truly "seeing," and the impact of video on image-making.

THE FOURTH DIMENSION is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. She explains, "Shown in their widespread functions and manifestations, including more evident loci such as festivals, religious rite and theatrical performance, 'rituals' involve not only the regularity in the structure of everyday life, but also the dynamic agents in the world of meaning." With its lush imagery, Minh-ha's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light.

“Trinh T. Minh-ha’s newest essayistic work and her first videotape, cuts an intricate key for unlocking this elusive culture. Her tack finds great visual pleasure in the everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meaning, and ritual. In THE FOURTH DIMENSION, Trinh’s lyrical narration guides us through ‘Japan’s likeness,’ the perfected framing of the sacramental familiar.” - Steve Seid

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Shoot for the Contents (1992)

Runtime: 102
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102912/

Director: T. Minh-ha Trinh

Description:

Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying, “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s film—whose title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game—is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China. The film ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by Tiananmen Square events. It offers at the same time an inquiry into the creative process of filmmaking, intricately layering Chinese popular songs and classical music, the sayings of Mao and Confucius, women’s voices and the words of artists, philosophers and other cultural workers. Video images emulate the gestures of calligraphy and contrast with film footage of rural China and stylized interviews. Like traditional Chinese opera, Trinh’s film unfolds through “bold omissions and minute depictions” to render “the real in the illusory and the illusory in the real.” Exploring color, rhythm and the changing relationship between ear and eye, this meditative documentary realizes on screen the shifts of interpretation in contemporary Chinese culture and politics.

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Reassemblage (1983)

Runtime: 40
Language: English (English and portuguese (br) fansubs)
Country: USA
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084577/

Director: T. Minh-ha Trinh

Description:

Filmmaker, writer, poet, literary theorist, educator, musical composer, and (un/non)ethnographer, Trinh T. Minh-ha builds much of her work around the theme of the "other" (the persona one considers him/herself to be in relation to), challenging cultural theorists' traditional notions of the subject or/subjected duality. She performed three year's worth of ethnographic field research in West Africa the Research Expedition Program of the University of California, Berkeley. This fieldwork led in part to her first film, Reassemblage, which was filmed in Senegal and released in 1982.

Trinh's views on traditional ethnographic documentaries are hinted at in one of her voice-overs that occurs early in the film. She states: "I do not intend to speak about/Just speak near by." The film is a montage of fleeting images from Senegal and includes almost no narration, save for the occasional statements by Trinh, none of which attempt to assign meaning to the seconds-long scenes. Where one expects an omniscient, scientific voice to override the moving pictures in order to overlay a mapping schema of "meaning," there is sometimes music, sometimes no sound, sometimes Trinh assigning a reality or sign to the culture it hopes to "know" by viewing a movie, she refuses to make the film be "about" something, refuses to speak about the images, and denies the hopeful observer the opportunity to record, categorize, and save an("other") culture. The viewer is left with a sense of disorientation, in that no meaning was assigned to any of the images in the film, and yet the viewer's mind was constantly expecting such designations.

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Mammy Water (1953) aka La pêche et le culte de la mer

2011-02-07T05:08:00.000-08:00

Mammy Water (1953) aka La pêche et le culte de la mer

Runtime: 18
Language: French
Country: France
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210168/

Director: Jean Rouch

Description: Daily life of the Fanti fishermen of Ghana, and rituals for the opening of the fishing season at Shama, Ghana.

Mamy Wata is a water diety.

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