Man Without Pigs - Chris Owen (1990)

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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Photo Wallahs - David MacDougall & Judith MacDougall (1991)

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

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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O'Rourke on 8 Films by O'Rourke (2008)

Runtime: 120
Language: English
Country: Australia
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.cameraworklimited.com/films.html

Director: Dennis O'Rourke

Description:

Dennis O'Rourke was born in Brisbane. For most of his childhood he lived in a small country town, where his parents ran a failing business, until he was sent to a Catholic boarding school for his secondary education. In the late 1960s, after two years of fruitless university studies, he went travelling in outback Australia, the Pacific Islands and South East Asia. During this period he worked as a farm hand, salesman, cowboy, a roughneck on oil rigs, and as a maritime seaman. He also taught himself photography and dreamt of becoming a photojournalist. Wanting to make documentary films, he moved to Sydney where the Australian Broadcasting Corporation employed him as an assistant gardener. He later became a cinematographer for that organization.

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This is disc 1 of a very recently released DVD set of O'Rourke's films. For a list of the films released see here: http://www.cameraworklimited.com/films.html

I've been unable to find any info on this documentary, neither year of release nor info on other cast or participants. The documentary is a sort of self-portrait of O'Rourke in which he discusses 8 of his documentary films. Footage from these is interspersed with O'Rourke directly addressing the camera.

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DESCARGAR - DOWNLOAD Australian Post-War Documentary Film (An Arc of Mirrors) - Deane Williams

The postwar period in Australian history was rife with critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism, and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles these issues in a considered, wide-ranging analysis of three types of documentaries: governmental, institutional, and radical. Charting the rise of progressive film culture, this volume critiques key films of the era, including The Back of Beyond, and retells film history by placing these documentaries in an international context.

“A significant contribution to documentary history, the history of left-wing thought in the West, and Australian studies.”—Ian Henderson, Editor of Studies in Australasian Cinema

“Deane Williams re-evaluates Australian documentary film production after World War II, positioning it as part of an international left culture which can embrace producers as different as the Realist Film Unit, Cecil Holmes, John Heyer and Maslyn Williams. He invites readers on an always enlightening and often exciting journey through a complex web of people and films and events, to view Australian culture through the documentary film ‘arc of mirrors’.”—Ina Bertrand, University of Melbourne

“Australian Postwar Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors is a thoroughly and painstakingly researched study of its subject, which draws upon a wealth of new oral and other forms of historical resource related to the Australian labour movement and associated film-making.”—Ian Aitken, De Montfort University

“With erudition and insight, Deane Williams in this book reconstructs a previously obscured era of documentary cinema in Australia, shedding light on the network of affiliations and associations that underlay the making of a cluster of compelling, politically charged documentary films in the postwar era. . . . This is an immensely thoughtful and timely contribution to the growing literature on the history of documentary cinema.”—Charles Wolfe, University of California, Santa Barbara