contents DER Collections 2009-2010

3 New Collections 16 Latin America This year we are proud to announce, with our 4 Africa 17 Middle East partners at the Smithsonian Institution's Human 8 Asia 18 North America 13 Oceania 20 International Studies Archive, that the John Marshall Archive 14 Europe 21 Harvard SEL Collection has been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Great collections have formed the basis of DER's acquisition and distribution strategy since 1968, when we introduced the exemplary !Kung Bushman films of John Marshall and the ground- breaking Yanomamo films by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon.

We continue to see the value in acquiring important filmmakers’ entire oeuvres; more recent examples include the works of Robert Gardner and Swiss documentarian Jacqueline Veuve.

Now we are introducing new titles from the legendary George Stoney, considered to be the father of community access TV. These are soon to be followed by an in-depth look at the influential "direct cinema" innovator Richard Leacock, and we feel that these collected works will resonate in ways that provide a richer and more informative viewing experience.

Additionally, exciting single new releases such as When Medicine Got it Wrong and the Emmy-nominated The Ballad of Esquiel Hernándezmean that DER continues to provide some of the best content available today.

Cynthia Close Executive Director

Staff & CREDITS:

Cynthia Close Frank Aveni Richard Gardner Executive Director Design & Media Services Consultant

Brittany Gravely Julia Teitel Nellie Kluz Distribution/Office Manager Broadcast Distribution Associate Acquisitions Assistant

Michael Hutcherson Karma Foley John Marshall Media Services Director Marshall Collection Archivist Founding President

Greg Moberg Fogelson-Lubliner Media Services Specialist Catalog Graphic Design * Anthropology & Sociology are subject index not included, as most of our titles fall under these categories. New Collections

Agriculture Environment/Ecology Politics (cont.) DER recognizes the increasing value of presenting works in 11 horses of Life & Death 4 Abloni 14 Imagine a School… Summerhil context and the life's work of significant filmmakers in their 21 Monsoon-Reflections 16 From Honey to Ashes 16 Living at Risk 16 owners of the Water 15 Last Yoik in Saami Forests? 7 N!ai, Story of a !Kung Woman totality. Film and media distribution in the digital age has be- 8 Running Out of Time 21 Monsoon-Reflections 18 Neighbors come increasingly fragmented, making preservation a priority 11 seed & Earth 16 Owners of the Water 16 Owners of the Water 9 the Lost Water 8 Running Out of Time 17 Plastic Flowers Never Die for DER – alongside our commitment to maintaining the accessi- 9 Sharing Paradise 17 Postcards From Tora Bora bility of all our titles in the most current and in-demand formats. Animals 15 The Fenland 21 Still Life 11 horses of Life & Death 9 The Lost Water 17 Tehran Has no More Pomegranetes 2 0 Macaques 12 Yindabad 5 They Turned our Desert into Fire We are pleased to announce three valuable and historically 2 0 Rhesus Play 6 Through The Negev important collections, two upcoming and one with its first films 15 the Last Yoik in Saami Forests? Gender Studies 7 Mammy Water Religion available now. Art & Music 19 Miss Margaret 6 African Carving: a Dogon Kanaga Mask 6 African carving: 16 Poto Mitan a Dogon Kanaga Mask 8 Arukihenro - Walking Pilgrims 11 Seed and Earth 6 An African Brass Band 8 Fate of the Lhapa The George C. Stoney Collection 5 The Al-Hadji and His Wives 16 Cubanos 11 Feast in Dream Village 10 The Poojari’s Daughter George C. Stoney (1916–) is a professor of film and cinema studies 18 Fully Awake 11 Horses of Life & Death 6 Through the Negev at New York University, and a pioneer in the field of documentary film. 6 Masters of the Balafon series 11 Left Eye of God 5 Today the Hawk Takes One Chick Stoney directed many influential films includingAll My Babies and 6 Movement Revolution Africa 7 Mammy Water 17 (Un)Vieled How the Myth Was Made. He is considered to be the father of public access 5 Rina Sherman Art Films 13 Ngat is Dead: Studying 12 Yindabad Mortuary Traditions television. The first three titles in the coming collection are now available: 19 Screening Room Series 7 Owu: Chidi Joins the Secret Society 6 Siaka, an African Musician Health/Medicine 13 Skull Art in Papua New Guinea How the Myth Was Made 13 Skull Art in Papua New Guinea 7 Khalfan & Zanzibar 11 Songs of a Sorrowful Man color, 58 min, 1979, $195 $49.95 11 Songs of a Sorrowful Man 19 Miss Margaret 12 The Last Rites of 2 0 Three Art Makers the Honorable Mr. Rai 17 Postcards from Tora Bora the ShephErd of the Night Flock 10 The Poojari’s Daughter 5 Shake Your Brains b&w, 56 min, 1975, $195 $49.95 Architecture 10 Speaking Tree 15 A Little Corner of Paradise Urban Studies 7 The Mseyas Southern Voices 4 Asmara Eritrea 4 Asmara Eritrea 5 Today the Hawk Takes One Chick color, 59 min, 1985, $195 $49.95 18 Neighbors 21 Chaiqian (Demolition) 19 When Medicine Got it Wrong 7 Tubali 14 Everyday Life of Roma Children from block 71 History 18 Neighbors The Films of Richard Leacock Dance/Movement 14 Auschwitz Dialogues 21 Songhua 6 African carving: Richard (Ricky) Leacock (1921–) studied physics at Harvard, was a Dogon Kanaga Mask 14 Balkan Rhapsodies 17 Tehran Has No More Pomegranetes hired by Robert Flaherty in 1946 to filmLouisiana Story and in the 1960s 5 Keep the Dance Alive 8 Last Kamikaze 12 West of the Tracks founded Drew Associates along with Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker. 6 Movement Revolution Africa 19 Miss Margaret He is considered to be one of the originators of the “direct cinema” 2 0 Rhythms of Earth 18 Neighbors War & Conflict movement and headed the M.I.T. Film Department until 1988. We are 2 0 Seasons of Migration 17 Plastic Flowers Never Die 14 Auschwitz Dialogues honored to be able to make his important work available beginning with 17 Postcards from Tora Bora 14 Balkan Rhapsodies Richard Leacock and Valerie Lalonde: The Paris Years 1989 to 2009. Economy/Labor 21 Still Life 16 Living at Risk 4 Abloni 18 Peacing It Together 21 Chaiqian (Demolition) Indigenous Culture 17 Plastic Flowers Never Die 12 Coding Culture 18 Being Innu 17 Postcards from Tora Bora Collected Films of Jorge Preloran 16 Cubanos 18 For Our Street Family 9 Returned: Child Soldiers of nepal’s Maoist Army Jorge Preloran (1933–2009) was a prolific Argentine filmmaker 6 Fishers of Dar 16 From Honey to Ashes 5 They Turned Our Desert Into Fire and a pioneer in ethnobiographic filmmaking who taught at the 16 Poto Mitan 4 !Kung Shorts Collection 6 Through the Negev School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA from 1976 to 1994. 15 The Fenland 15 Last Yoik in Saami Forests? His 1969 filmHermógenes Cayo (Imaginero) was recently listed as one of 9 The Lost Water 7 N!ai, Story of a !Kung Woman Youth the ten best Argentine films of all time, and his filmLuther Metke at 94 21 Songhua 16 Owners of the Water 15 A Little Corner of Paradise was nominated for the 1981 Oscar for Best Short Documentary. These 10 Stories from Myanmar 8 Running Out of Time 18 Being Innu and other DVD releases are coming soon. 12 West of the Tracks 16 Those With Voice 14 Breaking the Cycle 19 Umiaq Skin Boat 14 Everyday Life of Roma Children Education 12 Yindabad from block 71 15 A Little Corner of Paradise 18 For Our Street Family 14 Breaking the Cycle Politics 14 Imagine a School…Summerhill DVD Pricing key 18 Fully Awake 14 Auschwitz Dialogues 9 Returned: Child soldiers of nepals’s Maoist Army Institutional Sale - includes public performance rights. 14 Imagine a School… Summerhill 19 the ballad of Esquiel HernÁndez 10 Stories From Myanmar Consumer Sale - for home use only. 18 Peacing it Together 16 Cubanos 7 The Mseyas 10 Stories from Myanmar 7 Khalfan and Zanzibar 17 Young Arabs 3 Africa

!kung short films compilation

Between 1950–1958, John Marshall made four THE AL-HADJI & HIS WIVES THEY TURNED OUR today the hawk expeditions to film the Ju/’hoansi (a group of !Kung DESERT INTO FIRE takes one chick A portrait of a Fulani patriarch, Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then his savvy wives, and their rebel- In July of 2005, Mark Brecke In Swaziland, the circle of life South West Africa). Marshall and his family, who lious daughters, this documen- was invited to Capitol Hill to has been turned on its head; together undertook an extensive multi-disciplinary tary provides a glimpse into the give a presentation of his work nearly 40% of its people are HIV study of Ju/’hoansi, spent the greatest amount of challenges of their everyday in Darfur to members of Con- positive and life expectancy is 32 time with the people of /Gautcha, including lives and into their religious and gress. The train trip from San years. At a time when they should ≠Oma, !U, Tsamko, N!ai, and /Gunda. During this political convictions. With a criti- Francisco presented an oppor- be taken care of themselves, it is time, Marshall shot over 300,000 feet of 16mm film cal but sympathetic gaze, it also tunity to raise awareness about the grandmothers – or Gogos – (157 hours). He later produced a total of 23 films chronicles and investigates the the crisis. Complementing his who perservere by caring for the exclusively from this footage. 15 of those are short process and rationale by which photographs of human suffering children and maintaining com- films that Marshall referred to as “sequence films.” Amina, a 16-year-old daughter in Darfur and the refugee camps munities lying on the threshold Each focuses on a single event, providing the viewer of the family, is forced into an of Chad are moving accounts of simultaneous collapse and a brief introduction followed by an uninterrupted unwanted marriage. of Mark’s experiences and reinvention. sequence. comprehensive expert analysis, Jie Li Jane Gillooly Compiled and remastered for the first time: framing Disc One: A Curing Ceremony (bw) (8:24) Group of Women (5:07) which illuminate the full dimen- A Joking Relationship (12:42) N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of color, 50 min, 2006, color, 72 min, 2008 and color were corrected, subtitles replaced, and audio sions of the crisis and raise the !Kung Bushmen (bw) (19:44) The Melon Tossing Game (14:52) Lion $195 $49.95 $225 $59.95 and images cleaned and sharpened in this remarkable Game (4:33) An Argument About a Marriage (18:45) Men Bathing (13:44) serious questions about the collection. Disc Two: Playing with Scorpions (4:28) A Rite of Passage (14:44) Bilan du Film Ethnographique at Musee world’s apparent indifference. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2008 Debe’s Tantrum (8:22)The Wasp Nest (12:47) The Meat Fight (14:12) de L’Homme, Paris, 2007 Mexico City Int’l Contemporary John Marshall Baobab Play (7:54) Parnu Int’l Documentary and Mark Brecke film Festival, 2008 color, b&w, 161 min, 2009, $395 $89.95 Anthro-pology Film Festival, Estonia, 2007 color, 88 min 2008 Full Frame Documentary Mostra Int’l Ethnographic Film Festival, 2008 Film Festival, Brazil, 2007 $195 $49.95 Sarasota Film Festival, 2008 Africa World Documentary Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2008 Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria, 2007 Festival of Visual Culture, Finland, 2008 Society for Visual Anthropology Film Best Documentary, São Paulo Int’l Newburyport Documentary Festival, Washington DC, 2007 Film Festival, Brazil, 2007 Film Festival, MA, 2008

“The film itself is quite marvelous, and will be particularly fascinating for those with an interest in anthro- Friends, fools, family ASMARA, ERITREA abloni pology, music, and particularly you Jean Rouch is known Asmara - capitol of the East By following the strange to many , color- ethnomusicologists out there.” as a founding father of cinéma African nation of Eritrea - is ful, unpredictable voyage of one — Theresa Anasti, Feminist Review vérité. However, Rouch’s 50-year recognized as an architectural second hand shirt, Abloni plunges involvement with a particular gem. In this film Asmarinos from us into the huge worldwide keep the dance alive group of people in Niger shines different walks of life guide us business of second hand clothes. a more personal light on his through the streets of their city A unique voyage through the music, dance and In a variety of styles, exploring work – one of friendship and and bring us to places of their spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba a vast range of locations, and en- collaboration. Together, they choice. In doing so, and by talk- featuring remarkable footage of how dance and tering into the lives of a colorful made numerous ethnographic ing about "their own" Asmara, spirit possession is integrated into everyday life cast of characters, Abloni reveals ovahimba years collection films and developed a unique each person locates personal from infancy to death. how the second hand clothes cinematographic style. The film memories in public spaces in- From 1997 to 2004 Rina Sherman lived with the business creates a livelihood for color, 75/50 min, 2007, (french version available) explores this unique relationship vesting the urban environment Tjambiru family at their homestead located on a whole chain of wholesalers and 75 min: $225 $59.95 50 min: $195 $49.95 and reveals how it changed the with individual meanings. oHere hill in the outskirts of Etanga, a village in retailers; how it supports charities lives of both the filmmaker and the north-western Kunene region of Namibia. Caterina Borelli and recycles waste products in shake your brainS his friends. During her stay in the field, she documented the color, 63 min, 2008 rich countries; how it destroys the A film about alcohol abuse in the Kunene North lives of the members of the family, their relatives Berit Madsen, $195 $59.95 textile industries and traditions Region of Namibia, meant to make youth aware of and friends. Over a period of seven years, she Anne Mette Jørgensen in poor countries and revolution- the detrimental effects of this addiction. established an extensive record of their everyday color, 59 min, 2007 Architect Africa Film Festival, 2008 izes style and fashion in places African Studies Association and ritual lives in text, sound, video and photog- $195 $49.95 Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2008 as far away as a small village in color, 51 min, 2000, $195 $49.95 Muestra de Cine Documental y raphy. In 2003, Rina Sherman extended her re- central Togo. Etnográfico, Puerto Rico, 2009 search to the south-western provinces of Cunene Bilan du film ethnographique 2005, Association of Social Anthropology when visitors come Paris, 2005 UK Conference, Bristol, 2009 Alexandre Oktan and Namibe in Angola where she documented Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2005 color, 52 min, 2005 A film about the relationship between anthro- the lives of the Otjiherero speaking peoples Worldfilm - Tartu Festival of Visual $195 $49.95 pologist Rina Sherman and an Omuhimba family in writing, photographs, and this series of films. Culture, Estonia, 2005 Nordic Anthropological Film Festival, with whom she lived for seven years. Sweden, 2005 Rina Sherman Freiburg Film Festival, Germany, 2005 color, 51 min, 2000, $195 $49.95 color, 131 min, 1997–2008, $440 $99.95 Beeld voor Beeld Festival of Visual Anthropology, Amsterdam, 2005

4 5 Africa n!ai, story of a !kung woman, restored edition

hugo zemp collection The long-awaited restored edition of John Marshall’s classic film is One of our newest collections is that of the pioneering Swiss ethnomusi- here! The original film has been cologist, Hugo Zemp. Visit www.der.org to keep up-to-date on his future retransferred and the images releases, many of them internationally available for the first time. the mseyas cleaned, sharpened, and color-cor- rected. All titles and subtitles have The Mseyas are a family of four been replaced for clearer legibility. siblings in Tanzania who have With a color range and clarity FISHERS OF DAR been orphaned by AIDS, like so earlier video versions never had, many other young people in Afri- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a N!ai can now be seen in a startling ca. Their lives are a daily struggle metropolis of 3 million people yet new light. to survive without parental or the city’s demand for fish is en- state support. This beautifully- This film provides a broad over- tirely met by equipment, methods observed film lets the children view of Ju/’hoan life, both past and and tools that have been practiced speak of their intense commit- present, and an intimate portrait for centuries. Hundreds of fisher- ment to one another and a level of of N!ai, a Ju/’hoan woman who in men and women, boat builders, religious faith that give them the 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai boat crews, auctioneers, laborers, desire to keep going forward. tells her own story, and in so doing, vendors and market people of all the story of Ju/’hoan life over a kinds make a living in this age-old Gustavo Vizoso thirty year period. process. The film reveals how tra- masters of the Siaka, an African color, 2007 ditional methods articulate with balafon series Musician 27 min: $145 $39.95 John Marshall, Adrienne Miesmer modern demands and challenges. 52 min: $195 $49.95 color, 59 min, 1980 Balafon is the name given Siaka Diabaté is a multi-talented $295 $59.95 Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör in French speaking West Africa professional musician, and for 5th Aljazeera Int’l color, 38 min, 2001 Documentary Film Festival, Qatar, 2009 to a xylophone with calabash the local festivals in Bouaké plays $145 $39.95 resonators. This instrument is five instruments: the Senufo and KHALFAN AND ZANZIBAR emblematic of the Senufo people Maninka balafons, the kora harp, of the Côte d’Ivoire. The balafon the dundun drum and the electric Disabled people have always lived on the fringe of is played under differing circum- guitar. society, especially in poorer countries. Khalfan is a stances and in combination genial, wheelchair-bound, charismatic advocate of color, 79 min, 2005 with different groups of instru- their rights. The organization he founded gives the $195 $49.95 ments. Filmed in long sequences disabled a voice while teaching them skills such as to preserve the integrity An African Brass Band knitting, pottery-making and welding, helping them of the music and speech of the make a contribution to their communities. musicians, this series of four At the beginning of the 20th movement Lina Fruzzetti, Alfred Guzzetti documentaries introduces the century in Jacqueville, Côte (r)evolution africa color, 25 min, 2000, $145 $39.95 audience to the fascinating world d’Ivoire, traditional music was In an astonishing exposition of of a living musical tradition. forbidden by the missionaries. choreographic creations, nine But the inhabitants’ enjoyment African choreographers tell The Joy of Youth of their local festivals proved story of the emerging art form of color, 70 min, 2002, $195 $39.95 stronger, and the little town devel- Contemporary African Dance. oped its own dancing brass band. Stunning choreography and friend, well come! color, 73 min, 2006 riveting critiques challenge stale color, 27 min, 2002, $145 $39.95 $195 $49.95 stereotypes of "traditional Africa" to unveil soul-shaking responses The Wood to the beauty and tragedy of & the Calabash owu: chidi joins the mammy water: In tubali: hausa 21st century Africa. color, 47 min, 2002, $195 $39.95 okoroshi secret society search of the water architecture in spirits in nigeria northern nigeria Joan Frosch, Alla Kovgan Witness an uncompromising funeral festivities color, 65 min, 2007 portrait of a young man’s initia- The water goddess worshipped by Local builders, architects, and color, 80 min, 2001, $195 $39.95 $225 $49.95 tion into a men’s secret society. the Ibibio, Ijaw, and Igbo speaking a museum curator explain the Two keepers of tradition, an elder peoples is often sought in times of development of the Hausa griot and the town’s oldest woman need by women, and her cults are architectural style in Northern through the negev and female griot narrate this film usually led by priestesses. Show- Nigeria and its methods of – continuing their roles as com- ing the strength of traditional construction. Master craftsmen Told through interwoven first-person accounts mentators in the life of the village. religion in Nigeria, this is one of and their apprentices show how by the few women and children who have made the Featuring many rituals filmed the few academically sound inves- traditional architectural forms journey by walking from Egypt to Israel, this short for the first time,Owu explores tigations of the role of women in influence contemporary design. documentary encapsulates the refugees’ struggle for the pluralistic lives of Africans as an African spiritual movement. Hausa building technology, as home and safety, and gives voice to women and chil- they come up against westernized well as the social, religious and dren not often represented in stories about Sudan. Sabine Jell-Bahlsen Christian influence. aesthetics of Hausa architecture color, 60 min, 1989 Ya-Hsuan Huang are also discussed. Sabine Jell-Bahlsen $195 $49.95 color, 18 min, 2007 color, 60 min, 1994 Sabine Jell-Bahlsen $145 $39.95 $195 $49.95 color, 45 min, 1994 $195 $49.95 6 7 Asia returned: child soldiers of nepal’s maoist army

Shangri-La to hell in ten years: how did Nepal, a peaceful landlocked country, become home to the most dramatic Maoist insurgency in modern history?

Former Nepali child soldiers describe their dramatic recruitment and participation in the Maoist People’s Liberation Army during their eleven-year war with the Hindu monarch of Nepal. With the major conflict ended and the Maoists in control of the government, running out of time sharing paradise these children are now discarded by the Maoist leader- ship and forced to return home to communities and In many ways the heart of Above the water, Balobaloang families that want nothing to do with them. For many indigenous India, mineral-rich looks like an ideal tropical para- of the children of Nepal’s Maoist Army, the return Jharkhand is and has been at the dise with blue sky, coconut trees, home can be even more painful than the experience core of India’s industrial develop- and crystal water. However, the of war. Talking to these children as they attempt to ment after Independence. The community faces a continuous rebuild their lives, the film explains why they joined indigenous Adivasi people of decrease of fish yield due to dy- the Maoists and explores the prevention of future Jharkhand have borne the brunt namite and cyanide fishing prac- recruitment. of what is arguably India’s most tices that damage the coral reef Robert Koenig fundamental developmental around the island. Collaborating color, 30 min 2008, $145 $39.95 conflict, which has pushed them with the fishermen, the filmmak- to the verge of extinction as an ers confront the perpetrators and Best Documentary Short, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, 2008 agricultural people. attempt to understand the reasons Best Short - Children’s Advocacy, 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2008 for these dangerous new methods Abhijay Karlekar CARE Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 that threaten Balobaloang’s sus- Best Student Work, Society for Visual Anthropology color, 2006 Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2008 tainable way of life. 104 min $225 $59.95 55 min $195 $49.95 Amelia Hapsari color, 59 min, 2008, Association for Asian Studies Annual $195 $49.95 Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2009 Int’l Festival of Films on Tribal Art & Culture, Bhopal, India, 2009

fate of the lhapa

In a refugee camp in Nepal live three old Tibetan shamans who are practicing an ancient healing tradition in danger of extinction. Forced into exile arukihenro - by the Chinese invasion of their homeland, they walking pilgrims struggle to survive and preserve their cultural For many people, the main heritage. motive for undertaking a pil- Sarah Sifers grimage consists in the journey color, 63 min, 2007, $195 $49.95 itself - wandering along a path leading away from the familiar Moondance Seahorse Award, Moondance Int’l Film Festival, Boulder, CO, 2007 place and at the same time lead- Gold Medal for Best Music in a Documentary, ing towards oneself. This “road the lost water Park City Film & Music Festival, 2008 Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia, 2008 movie” focuses on today's Japa- 73% of the salt production in India comes from Gujarat State, almost nese wandering pilgrims, as 60% of which comes from Little Rann of Kutch (LRK). The salt work- they undertake the 88 Temples' the last kamikaze: ers of LRK, known as Agariyas, face wage discrimination, physical and Pilgrimage that circles the Testimonials from wwii mental health hazards, water scarcity and malnutrition. In light of a new Japanese island of Shikoku. suicide pilots wildlife conservation designation, the Agariyas are now even struggling Tommi Mendel, color, 73 min, 2006 to maintain their land and their livelihood. This video explores the minds of former teenage $225 $59.95 suicide bombers who participated in the Japanese DaKxin Bajarange

suicide operations during World War II. Now Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Paris, 2007 color, 21 min, 2007 in their 70s and 80s, they reflect upon their past, NAFA Nordic Anthropological Film Assc. 21 min $145 $39.95 Festival, Trondheim, Norway, 2007 speaking candidly about their lives and issues like RAI Int’l Festival of Ethnographic Film, 45 min $195 $49.95 patriotism, propaganda, and spirituality. Manchester, UK, 2007 Pärnu International Documentary Film Best of Indian Works Section, 9th Madurai Film Festival, India, 2007 Festival, Pärnu, Estonia, 2007 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2008 Masami Takahashi Mostra International do Filme Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, 2008 Etnografico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007 color, 55 min, 2007, $195 $49.95 Days of Ethnographic Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008 Days of Ethnographic Film, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China, 2008 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008 ETNOFILM Cadca 2008, Cadca, Slovakia Religion Today - International Festival of Cinema & Religion, Trento, Italy, 2008

8 9 Asia seed and earth

Following the daily schedule of two families in the rural Bengal village of Janta, this film observes the complimentarity and difference of gender and gen- eration in the work, ritual and leisure activities of men and women, adults and children. It reveals the strong links between the sacred and social life, the events and ideas of family, and cultivation and worship in Bengal.

Lina Fruzzetti, Alfred Guzzetti, Ned Johnston, Ákos Östör color, 56 min, 1995, $145 $39.95

the poojari’s daughter speaking tree

In an informal survey of some 300 South Indian For over five years, the filmmaker follows the unusu- Hindu temples in the late 1990s, only four female al story of man named Deva who loses his mind while poojaris or priestesses were counted. This is an grazing camels in the desert of northwestern India. intimate portrait of one such priestess, Rajathia- After his wife leaves, his mother looks after him, and he mma, who spiritually inherited from her father at spends each day tied to a tree in the village. Ten years his death the post of "periya poojari" or big priest. later, a massive earthquake kills thousands and makes Weaving dramatic footage of the rituals and temple millions homeless but gives Deva his mind, his sanity, horses of life and death the left eye of god feast in dream village life at the non-Brahmanical Hindu temple with and his life back. Much has changed, and for Deva, The Pasola – a jousting battle A synthesis of eastern and west- The eastern Indonesian island Rajathiamma’s moving narration of her process, today’s reality may just be a different kind of “insanity,” with hundreds of horses and rid- ern traditions, Caodaism emerged of Sumba is the last island in the the documentary captures the conflict between her yet one which he can decide whether or not to accept. ers – is the Sumbanese New Year in colonial Saigon in the 1920s Malay archipelago where the calling to serve her god and her attachment to Natasha de Betak celebration and ritual that antici- and was soon followed by one majority of the people still follow her family. color, 65 min, 2008, $195 $49.95 pates the rice harvest. The spirit out of four people in southern their ancestral religion. Narrated Gillian Goslinga of the fertility of the seas and the Vietnam. Caodaists attempted by the priests who communicate color, 66 min, 2009, $195 $49.95 Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2007 Best Documentary Film Nomination - MIAAC New York, 2007 land is celebrated with a dramatic to heal the wounds of war and with the spirits in prayers and Paris Film Festival, Paris, 2008 display of masculine virility, cour- colonialism, yet suffered persecu- sacrifices, it documents a week Int’l Women’s Film Festival, Cologne & Dortmund, 2008 9th Sichuan Film Festival, China, 2008 age and horsemanship. The film tion from the French, the Diem of offerings, dancing and ora- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008 explores the gendered perspec- government and the communists. tory and sheds light on the rise Global Arts Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2008 tive on rituals as well as the close In this study of a largely unknown of Christianity in Sumabanese emotional ties between members mystical tradition, Caodaists tell society in the 1980s. of a family and the horses that their stories of exile, anti-colonial Janet Hoskins, they raise. struggle and building immigrant stories from myanmar Laura Scheerer Whitney congregations in California. Janet Hoskins, color,26 min, 1988, Since its inception in 2005, the Yangon Film Laura Scheerer Whitney Janet Hoskins, Susan Hostkins $145 #39.95 School has brought together experienced film- color, 26 min, 1991, color, 50 min, 2008 making tutors from around the world and young $145 $39.95 $195 $49.95 Burmese men and women for training in all aspects of filmmaking – from screenwriting to editing – with a particular focus on documentary. songs of a sorrowful man

DVD 1 contains the work of 12 new participants and Charismatic and unconventional, Dukhushyam is contains their first film exercises:Stories from the a painter, composer, and singer who is legendary in Princess Hotel; their final films:Children in Myanmar; rural West Bengal. As documented in Singing Pictures and a short filmAbout the Beginners’ Workshop. (2006), he encourages Indian women to take up the craft of scroll painting and musical composition tra- The Stories of Change on DVD 2 portray people from ditionally pursued by men. This new film chronicles Kachin State, southern Shan State and the Ayeyar- his vision of the decline and rebirth of his art; his waddy Delta who describe how development organi- Made by participants of Yangon Film School workshops, tolerant Sufi Muslim spirituality; his engagement sations are making a real difference to their lives. produced by Lindsey Merrison with Hindus, Muslims and the modern world; his This DVD also includes short filmsAbout the Stage color, 188 min, 2008, $195 $59.95 encyclopedic knowledge of music and painting; and Two Workshop and About the Screenwriting Workshop. Also see: his teachings for future generations of painters and This body of work bears witness to a growing nucleus ART OF DOCUMENTARY EDITING & singers in his community. of talented young Burmese filmmakers who strive to ART OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, Aditinath Sarkar create challenging work in an environment notori- AAA/Society for Visual Anthropology color, 35 min, 2009, $145 $39.95 ous for discouraging independent media. Their Film, Video & Multimedia Festival, 2009 films provide a hitherto unseen window on the lives Voices From the Waters Film Festival, Bangalore, India, 2009 Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, Philadelphia, 2009 of ordinary people in Myanmar. RAI int’l Festival of Ethnographic Film, UK, 2009

10 11 Asia Oceania

coding culture

The Indian software outsourc- ing industry has emerged as a key node of the global economy. This series of programs explores the cultures of outsourced work and yindabad the molding of a new workforce catering to the global high-tech The Narmada Valley Development Project currently underway in services industry. Each company India involves the construction of more than 3000 dams. Over 2.5 mil- studied represents one of the lion people have already been affected, most of them indigenous Adi- three major types of software vasis who have been struggling against the interests of the government companies found in Bangalore. and large corporations for over 20 years. Fighting for the conservation Gautam Sonti of their culture and their land, women are the central characters in color, 85 min, 2006 this critical study of the hidden socio-ecological impact of economic $225 $59.95 development and globalization. NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING MORTUARY TRADITIONS Prix du Patrimonie Culturel Immatériel, Mariano Agudo, Rol Guitián Bangkok Int’l Film Festival, Thailand, 2007 Jean Rouch Int’l Film Festival, Paris, 2008 Viscult Festival of Visual Culture, Worldfilm: Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, Estonia, 2008 color, 55 min, 2007, $195 $49.95 Joensuu, Finland, 2007 This film follows a Dutch anthropologist who has Beeld voor Beeld, Amsterdam, 2008 XXII Pärnu Int’l Film Festival, Estonia, 2008 been adopted by a family on Baluan Island in Papua La Imagen del Sur Film Festival, Cordoba, Spain, 2007 Sardinia Int’l Ethnographic Film Festival, Nuoro, Italy, 2008 Water Prize, 13º CineEco Festival, Serra da Estrela, Portugal, 2007 New Guinea. Due to the death of his adoptive father, VISCULT 2008: Festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu, Finland, 2008 Moscow Int’l Visual Anthropology Festival, 2008 he has to take part in mortuary ceremonies, whose Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico, form and content are passionately contested by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008 Beeld voor Beeld in Bogotá, Colombia, 2008 different groups of relatives. Through prolonged Royal Anthropological Institute Int’l Festival negotiations, Ton learns how Baluan people perform of Ethnographic Film, UK, 2009 Freiburger Film Forum, Germany, 2009 and transform their traditions and not least what role he plays himself.

Christian Suhr, Ton Otto, Steffen Dalsgaard color, 59 min, 2009, $195 $49.95 the last rites of the honorable mr. rai “A wonderful work This highly detailed and respect- for use in ethnic ful study of the Hindu rites of studies and cultural cremation on the sacred banks of the Ganges observes the crema- anthropology courses. tion of a longtime resident of the The film serves as holy city of Varanasi. With no nar- ration to interrupt or transcribe west of the tracks an important bridge the events, the viewer experiences A massive industrial complex in northeastern China’s Shenyang prov- between what was all that is said and carried out by ince, Tie Xi is the country’s oldest and largest manufacturing center. This the mourners, the funerary priest and what is now. epic portrayal of its slow death is an engrossing portrait of Chinese society and cremation ground specialists. in transition. Once promised glory during the Chinese revolution, the It celebrates not only Bookending this final rite of pas- last factory workers are now trapped by economic change and emerge as sage is the everyday interaction diversity but also heroes in what Cahiers du Cinema calls “an open file on realism.” of people with their gods, animals and importantly the and the sacred river itself. “Capturing moments both large and small...this variety of human skull art in papua new guinea Jayasinhji Jhala profoundly empathetic and humanist work color, 47 min, 2007, endeavors to interpret This video documents the over-modeling in clay of a real human $195 $49.95 bears witness to a vanished way of life and the life and existence.” skull in Lae, Papua New Guinea as it would have been traditionally dec- orated by a Sepik warrior. Historically, skull art honored the deceased Religion Today - Int’l Festival of Cinema real cost of progress.” — Michael Mbabuike, Professor & – friend or foe – and provided the physical and spiritual foundations of & Religion, Trento, Italy, 2008 — Jeanette Catsoulis, The New York Times Chair, Africana Studies/Humanities, Special Jury Award, XVII Int’l Festival of City University of New York Sepik society; now, it is rare and carried out in secrecy. Ethnological Film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2008 Wang Bing Days of Ethnographic Film, Sabine Jell-Bahlsen Rovinj, Croatia, 2009 color, 554 min, 2003, $950 Worldfilm 2009 – Tartu Festival of color, 28 min, 1999, $145 $39.95 Visual Culture, Estonia, 2009 Rust 244 min, $395 Remnants 178 min, $395 Rails 132 min, $395

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last yoik in saami art films by rina sherman forests? Home to the indigenous Saami A former protégé and collaborator of Jean Rouch, Rina Sherman is peoples, the forests of Finnish an accomplished ethnographic filmmaker and artist. Her experimen- Lapland have endured damage tal art films are now available on one DVD. and disruption from logging for Rita Sherman the past 50 years. These forests 1983-1992, $195 $29.95 are essential to reindeer herding, a traditional way of life that the Antics of the Artists 7 min, 1983 Saami hope to continue into future generations. A conflict In and around the pool an array of creatures move about. A scene emerges between Saami activists of the famous novel Seven Days at the Silbersteins by Etienne Leroux (in alliance with Greenpeace), and imagine a school… summerhill breaking the cycle unfolds to the music of Peter Klatzow. logging workers worried about At Summerhill, the famous English Subjected to years of neglect, alternative Woodlands Country Chicken Movie. Cluck! An Egg with no Shell losing their jobs. The issue of boarding school, attendance in classes is voluntary. Primary School in Gillingham, Kent is situated in indigenous land rights underlies The school runs as a free and completely democrat- one of England's most socio-economically deprived A chauffeur drives his Madam A male diva sings in a counter- the problem. ic society where rules are developed and adopted areas. By 1996 its low-attending students had been about in downtown Johannes- tenor voice while massacring Hannu Hyvönen in meetings, and in which every member of the relegated to underachievement and dim futures, burg, and visits friends, town- chickens brought to him by his color, 60 min, 2007 school community, from a five-year old child to the until a visionary schoolmaster simply put the chil- ships, wastelands. The trip ends butler, Jean Rouch, until a slave $225 $59.95 headmistress, has an equal vote. dren's emotional well-being first. Today Woodlands with a nuptial-funeral ball where provides proof of his love for the

is consistently listed as one of the best schools in the men dance to the cock’s crow chicken, which he has tucked Planet In Focus – Int’l Environmental The students and the staff take on the British Labor the UK, with well-funded sports, arts, pre-school and and the rhythm of Zulu music. under his arm. A film-opera based Film & Video Festival, 2007 Government to fight for the school's existence and Best Topical Relevance & Interpretation, after-school programs. on a poem. Nepal Int’l Indigenous Film Festival, 2008 the lifeblood of alternative education everywhere. 20 min, 1984 National Museum of the American This fight not only saves the prestigious institution, This film is not a manual on how to turn around a 13 min, 1992 Indian, New York, 2008 but also proves the very educational principals on failing primary school, but it can be a tool for inspir- which the school was founded. ing those implementing change in their own school communities. William Tyler Smith color, 67 min, 2008, $195 $49.95 John Dickinson, Mark Dickinson color, 52 min, 2008, $195 $49.95

everyday life of roma the auschwitz balkan rhapsodies the fenland (le brouck) children from block 71 dialogues The Fenland was devised and shot in close collabo- Jeff Silva was the first US ration with a group of eight local fenlanders, young An intimate window into a Everyone has heard of the civilian allowed entry into men and women who live and work as market gar- Roma family’s life within a concentration and extermination a devastated Serbia in 1999 just deners in the area of Saint Omer, in northern France. squatter settlement in Serbia, this camps at Auschwitz, but not many days after the NATO bombings. By a little corner of paradise The film bears witness to a moment in time when documentary sheds light on the recognize the small Polish town immersing himself intimately This is the story of the rebirth of Ossona, a hamlet these young agriculturalists ask themselves some intricacies of Roma customs and by its present name Oświęcim. into the lives of people he meets, in southwestern Switzerland, which was abandoned hard practical questions about the social and their amalgamation of cultural Arriving at this site, a team of he grapples with the fragmenta- in the 1960s and has now become the pilot project economic problems facing their kind of agriculture. influences. Remarkably resilient, young filmmakers find them- tion, cultural incongruities and for an agro-tourism site. A group from an institution These young people offer their views on the future funny and optimistic, the chil- selves caught amid a conflict be- ultimate dissolution of the For- for troubled teens work together with Ossona’s na- of the Fenland, on aspects of trade unionism in dren speak openly about their tween Jewish Holocaust survivors mer Yugoslavia while capturing tive senior citizens to restore this site to a sustainable agriculture and the possible options open to them. hopes and dreams, including and the town’s Polish inhabitants, the essence of life in the Balkans development. What can they pass on to one another? The film aims to be sociological to the extent that it educational opportunities from who struggle to define the town’s during the Milosevic years. reveals and fixes a moment of social change, but it which they are often excluded. modern day identity. “ A Little Corner of Paradise dazzles like a fairy Jeff Daniel Silva does not try to categorize or idealize the positions The video brings an alternative tale and invokes a melancholy for things that Marian Ehret color, 55 min, 2007 the fenlanders take, which are often contradictory and very human view of the no longer exist.” color, 60 min, 2007 $195 $49.95 yet all the more illuminating for that. often-beleaguered and impover- – Presse Locarno $145 $39.95 ished Roma. DokumentART Festival - Colette Piault Jacqueline Veuve Neubrandenburg, Germany, 2007 b&w, 38 min, 1972 Ivana Todorovic A-38 Award Nomination, Kassel Documen- Doc Fortnights - Museum of Modern Art, color, 85 min, 2008 New York, 2008 $145 $39.95 color, 21 min, 2006 tary Film Festival, Germany, 2007 $195 $59.95 $195 $49.95 14 15 Latin America Middle East

POTO MITAN: HAITIAN WOMEN, PILLARS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Told through the compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains how neoliberal globalization is gendered and how it impacts Haiti, making it clear that women's subjugation, worker exploitation, and poverty are global struggles.

Renée Bergan, Mark Schuller color, 50 min, 2009, $195 $79.95

Indie Spec Best Documentary Award, Boston Int’l Film Festival, 2009 postcards from Social Justice Award Nominee, Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival, 2009 tora bora Armed only with rapidly fading living at risk memories, a young Afghan- tehran has no more pomegranates American woman returns to her Subtitled The Story of a Nicaraguan Director Massoud Bakhshi and crew serve as protagonists in a narra- childhood home after two decades Family, this film centers on the tive about the impossibility of finishing a film about the city they live of living in the U.S. to put together Barrios, five brothers and sisters in. Made over the span of five years,Pomegranates blends satire with the pieces of her past, and fre- living in Sandinista Nicaragua after history to paint an eclectic, post-modern portrait of this metropolis in quently finds herself at a strange the overthrow of dictator Anastasio transformation and explain the complex life of Tehran's inhabitants as intersection where cultures clash, Somoza, who have committed to the live side by side with the past. identities are mistaken, and the remaining and working with the cubanos past violently collides with the “An imaginative and engaging history of Tehran that uses a revolutionary government. present. petulant barbed humor to deliver a steady stream of irony Following Catuey, a Cuban Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas, about this drastically transformed society.” musician living in Québec, Cubanos Kelly Dolak, Wazhmah Osman Richard P. Rogers — Deborah Young, Variety paints a broad, complex portrait of color, 87 min, 2007, color, 59 min, 1985, $195 $49.95 the international Cuban com- $195 $49.95 Massoud Bakhshi munity, whose identity has been color, 68 min, 2008, $195 $29.95 Screenings:KQED broadcast, 2009, PBS fragmented by 48 years of dictator- broadcast, 2009, Best Director, 25th Fajr Int’l Film Festival, Tehran, 2007 NAMI National Convention, San Fran- ship. It explores the many facets of Best Director, 11th House of Cinema Film Festival, Tehran, 2007 cisco, 2009 a culture that is developing differ- Nomination, Cinema Eye Award for Best Documentary Film, IFC 2009 ently in Cuba and Miami.

Yan Giroux color, 2007 52 min, $225 $49.95 owners of the water: those with voice/ 86 min, $245 $59.95 CONFLICT & COLLABORA- LOS CON VOZ TION OVER RIVERS Those With Voice documents A unique, long collaboration current efforts in the Southern plastic flowers young arabs (un)veiled: between two indigenous film- Mexican states of Oaxaca and never die MUSLIM WOMEN TALK The film takes makers and an anthropologist, Chiapas to produce what social viewers inside ABOUT HIJAB Owners of the Water is a compel- scientists have dubbed “indige- After years of writing and re- an elite preparatory school in the ling documentary with ground- nous media.” The stories shared search on post-Revolution public heart of Cairo which is roughly (un)veiled introduces ten Muslim breaking ethnographic imagery. here illustrate the complexities from honey to ashes culture in Iran, anthropologist, 60% Muslim and 40% Christian. women from various backgrounds A central Brazilian Xavante, a of today's indigenous experi- writer and filmmaker Roxanne It offers a quiet encounter with living in the United Arab Emir- In March 2004, one of the Wayuu from Venezuela, and a ence while at the same time Varzi weaves a year’s worth of students as they reflect on God, ates. In a time when Muslim world’s last voluntarily isolated US anthropologist explore an promoting the universality of interviews with ideologically America, terrorism, marriage, the women are represented as beset groups of hunter-gatherers indigenous campaign to protect the human spirit. driven mural painters, museum Middle East, and more. By virtue by backwardness, these women walked out of the forest in north- a river from devastating effects curators, war vets and secular Ira- of lineage, these young men are show the diverse, lively, argumen- Jeff Arak ern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ of uncontrolled Amazonian soy nian youth into an experimental expected to help lead the Middle tative debates in Muslim societies color, 55 min , 2008 bulldozers. They formed a new cultivation. Featuring a diversity documentary and meditation on East into a new and uncertain about the meanings of modernity, +13min Voice Through Film village with their more settled of Xavante opinions, the film the aftermath of war. world - a fact that gives their emancipation, and feminism. $195 $29.95 relatives, where they confronted showcases indigenous efforts to views particular significance. the complexities of learning how Roxanne Varzi Ines Hofmann Kanna build networks among different Int’l Festival of Ethnographic Film, to become “Ayoreo Indians” and color, 34 min, 2008 Michael Graziano, color, 36 min, 2008 native peoples and across nations. Quebec, Canada, 2009 Muestra de Cine Documental y more critically, how to survive in a $145 $39.95 E. Joong-eun Park $145 $39.95 Etnográfico, Puerto Rico, 2009 Laura R. Graham, David Hernández Days of Ethnographic Film, rapidly changing world. color, 25 min, 2008 Palmar, Caimi Waiásse Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009 New Filmmakers Series, $145 $39.95 Second Jury Prize, Lucas Bessire Museum of Architecture and Design, Black Maria Film Festival, 2008 color, 55 min, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, 2008 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, color, 47 min, 2008 Arizona, 2008 $195 $49.95 $225 $59.95 16 17 WHEN MEDICINE North America GOT IT WRONG In 1974, a small group of parents became the first in the nation to publicly refuse blame for causing their children to have schizophre- neighbors: conservation nia. When Medicine Got it Wrong in a changing community shows how these families launched one of the fastest growing grass- At the time this film was made (1975–76), America roots movements the nation had was reconsidering its older urban neighborhoods, seen to date, ushering in an era of in a moment of rediscovery not unlike the current dramatic advances in understand- era of gentrification in US cities. Instead of being ing, treatment and brain research. seen by the more affluent as fodder for destructive Katie Cadigan, Laura Murray urban renewal projects, 19th- and early 20th-century color, 53 min, 2009 neighborhoods were coming to be viewed as the $195 $39.95 basic building blocks of our cities. the BALLAD OF Richard P. Rogers, Janet Mendelsohn ESEQUIEL HERNÁNDEZ color, 28 min, 1977, $145 $39.95 In 1997, an 18-year-old boy tending goats just outside Redford,Texas Fully awake was shot and killed by Marines on an anti-drug border patrol. Fully Awake chronicles the brief but influential Featuring candid accounts from existence of the North Carolina-based experimental “ Ballad focuses intensely on the the Marines, Esequiel's family and Black Mountain College, from 1933 to 1957. A haven cultural and political ramifica- friends, FBI investigators and de- PEACING IT TOGETHER for the avant-garde, the college’s curriculum inspired tions, how the murder ruined fense attorneys, this riveting tale On a secluded island off the west collaboration and innovation. During its years of ac- lives and reshaped policy... and reveals the dangers of using the coast of Canada a group of Pales- tivity, the school significantly affected the American what the case reveals about U.S. military as domestic law enforce- tian, Israeli and Canadian teens art scene, creating new models of artistic production official priorities, then and now.” ment and exposes this complex participated in a unique peace and that altered the very definition of “art.” — Cynthia Fuchs, PopMatters.com tragedy ignored by the media. filmmaking camp organized by

Catherine Davis Zommer, Neely House Tribeca Film Festival, NY, 2007 Kieran Fitzgerald the Peace It Together Society. During color, 60 min, 2007 , $195 $29.95 Best Documentary, color, 87 min 2007 their stay they worked in small col- Santa Fe Film Festival, NM, 2008 Emmy nominated, 2009 $225 $59.95 laborative groups to produce films Berkshires International Film Festival, 2007 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 about the Middle East conflict. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, 2008 screening room series Through the camera’s lens they reflect their lives, fears, and hopes. Screening Room was a 1970s Boston television series that for almost Erik Paulsson, Nova Ami ten years offered independent filmmakers a chance to show and color, 29 min, 2008 discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station. The $195 $49.95 series was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner Dead( Birds, Forest of Bliss). This unique program dealt even-handedly with animation, documentary, and experimental film, welcoming such artists as Jan Lenica, John and Faith Hubley, Emile DeAntonio, Jean Rouch, Ricky Leacock, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Yvonne Rainer and umiaq skin boat FOR OUR STREET FAMILY BEING INNU Michael Snow.

Shot against the magnificent Begun as a participatory group For thousands of years the Innu Robert Gardner, 1972–1981, $1200 $559.95 backdrop of the northern land- self-portrait, For Our Street Family lived off the land. In the 1960s, animation Suzan Pitt Ricky Leacock Ed Emshwiller scape, Umiaq Skin Boat is a beauti- revolves around a teen drop-in government policy forced them Robert Breer John Whitney Sr. Alan Lomax Hollis Frampton ful and poetic film about a group center called Planet Youth, and ex- to settle and form communities in George Griffin Richard P. Rogers Standish Lawder John & Faith Hubley documentary Jean Rouch & Stanley Cavell MISS MARGARET of Inuit elders Inukjuak, Quebec, plores the pain of stereotypes, the Labrador and Quebec. Ancestral Derek Lamb Les Blank Jonas Mekas Caroline Leaf Emile de Antonio experimental Yvonne Rainer Once there were thousands who decide one summer to build importance of peer support, and and modern ways collided, giving Robert Fulton & Mary Beams Bruce Baillie Michael Snow of licensed Granny Midwives the first traditional seal skin boat the ambivalence about identity rise to ongoing struggles. Dealing Jan Lenica Hillary Harris James Broughton Peter Hutton throughout the South. Now there their community has seen in over experienced by a group of First with suicide, addiction, and hope- are none. Who were they? Where 50 years. The film bears witness to Nations teens in Prince Rupert, lessness, the grandchildren tell did they go? Because of segrega- the resilience of the Inuit spirit in British Columbia. their own story. Being Innu is an tion, many Americans knew noth- changing times. unvarnished look at an aboriginal Jennifer Wolowic ing about natural home birth with community in crisis. Jobie Weetaluktuk color, 34 min, 2008 experienced Grannies like Mar- color, 31 min 2008 $145 $39.95 Catherine Mullins garet Charles Smith who learned $145 $39.95 color, 53 min/76 min, 2007 from each other and could deal University of British Columbia 76 min $225 $59.95 Ethnographic Film Festival, Canada, 2009 with breech deliveries, multiple Hot Docs, Canada, 2008 Society For Visual Anthropology 53 min $195 $49.95 births and other situations with Closing Film – Terres en Vues/Land Film Festival, USA 2009 InSights First Peoples’ Festival, no medical instruments or drugs. Montreal, Canada, 2008 World premiere - Montreal Internation- Native American Film + Video Festival, al Film Festival, 2007 Diana Paul New York, 2009 St. John’s International Women’s Film RAI International Festival Festival, Newfoundland, 2007 color, 37 min 2009 of Ethnographic Film, UK, 2009 $145 $39.95

18 19 DER introduces works from Harvard University’s acclaimed new Sensory Ethnography Lab headed by International Harvard Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Experimenting within the interstices of art and anthropology, the videos focus SEL Collection on cross-cultural social experience and subjectivity.

the professional foreigner: ASEN BALIKCI & VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY

In a series of talks with filmmaker Rolf Husmann, renowned anthropologist and ethnographic film- maker Asen Balikci visits different locations to show and discuss his life and work, including his recent work among the Bulgarian Pomak and in Sikkim kale and kale monsoon reflections still life (India). The Professional Foreigner is not only the portrait of a famous expert in Visual Ethnography, Portraying the subtle interac- Drawing its title from a poem Exploring the mediations of but also more generally touches upon vital issues of tions and relationships between by the Nepali poet Lekhnath memory among three genera- ethnographic filmmaking. an uncle and nephew – both nick- Paudyal, this video focuses on the tions of Palestinian refugees liv- named Kale – and their families in melancholy and grit of two female ing in Lebanon, this documenary Rolf Husmann, Manfred Krüger rural Nepal, this document avoids Nepali field hands as they carry considers how a series of photos color, 60 min, 2009, a conventional ethnographic out their monsoon routines in brought to Lebanon by Said Otruk, $195 $49.95 approach. Rather than depicting Lekhnath, Nepal. It is a sensorial an elderly Palestinian fisher- these individuals as representa- riposte to Paudyal’s idealistic man from Acre, mediate both his tives of a particular caste – in depiction of the monsoon as present experience and recollec- this case as itinerant musicians “joyous from start to finish,” by tions of his life in Palestine before known as the Gaine – it slowly dis- means of reflections upon labor, 1948. We see how the “reality” closes the roles they play within gender, and fleeting pleasure in represented in these images has their families, in village society, rural Nepal. become conflated with the images and in neighboring communi- themselves. Stephanie Spray ties through a series of discrete color, 23 min, 2008, Diana Allen vignettes. The work invites the $145 $39.95 color, 25 min, 2007, seasons of migration rhythms of earth three art makers viewer to engage unhurriedly and $145 $39.95 sensorially with its subjects and Focused on Sophilene Cheam Alan Lomax and his associates, Making marks, or causing them their environment. Shapiro’s classical Cambodian beginning in the late 1950s, un- to be made as in the case of film- dance about the stages of culture dertook a monumental study of makers, is what artists do. They Stephanie Spray shock, this film blends dance with the relationship between style in see, imagine, hallucinate some color, 51 min, 2008, commentary about the music song and dance cross-culturally. shape, color or tone and then pick $195 $49.95 and choreography and personal The films collected here repre- up their tools to render it in steel, stories of emigration from sent decades of ambitious work light, copper or almost anything Cambodian-American residents done to discover meaning in the else. Here are three examples of of Long Beach, California (the enormous variety of dance, music, what can happen. largest Cambodian city outside of costume and public presentation Robert Gardner Cambodia). Also included on the of culture around the world. color, 48 min, 2009 DVD is the complete dance shot Alan Lomax, Forrestine Paulay $195 $39.95 with multiple cameras. color, 156 min + extras, the great sail 10 min, 1966 John Bishop 1974–2008, $195 $39.95 Alexander Calder’s La Grande Voile SONGHUA color, 94 min, 2008 was erected on the Massachusetts $195 $19.95 The Songhua River runs through Institute of Technology campus Harbin, the capital of China’s in 1966 with the artist directing Heilongjiang province and serves the work. as the city’s main water source. CHAIQIAN (DEMOLITION) Dancing with miklos 28 min, 1993 At all hours of the day, people This is a portrait of urban space, migrant labor, and ephemeral Filming prolific Hungarian flock to the crowded urban space relationships in the center of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province filmmaker Miklos Jancso, where Harbin meets the river. By in western China. Attending first to the formal dimensions of the Gardner creates more than a attending to the everyday activi- transforming worksite – including the demands of physical labor and behind-the-scenes exploration; ties of leisure and labor unfolding the relationship between human and machine – the film shifts focus to it's an eloquent and entertain- along the banks and promenade, the social dynamics of a group of thirty men and women. rhesus play macaques ing tribute from one filmmaker Songhua depicts the intimate and to another. complex relationship between J.P. Sniadecki Rhesus Play shows and analyses This video presents an over- Harbin city residents and their color, 62 min, 2008, $195 $49.95 aggressive play - play fighting view of the genus Macaca, and good to pull 10 min, 2000 “mother river.” and play chasing - among free is useful as an introduction, This short video is about a col- 2009 Cinéma du Réel – Joris Ivens Award (int’l Competition) ranging rhesus monkeys of La as well as providing data for laboration between the artist J.P. Sniadecki 2008 Vienna int’l Film Festival color, 29 min, 2007, 2008 Shadow Festival for the Cueva Island, Puerto Rico. complex analysis. Michael Mazur and his master Creative Documentary printer, Robert Townsend, as they $149 $39.95 3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival John Bishop Anne Zeller work on a suite of etchings drawn color, 24 min, 1977 color, 53 min, 2008 from the celebrated monotypes $145 $24.95 $195 $49.95 Mazur made for Dante’s Inferno. 20 21 www.der.org we 617-926-9519 fax 617-926-0491 800-569-6621 phone @der.org docued e- documentary film. documentary through understanding and education cross-cultural foster to DER continues subjects, for their respect and of engagement lifetime a reflected collaborations whose world. filmmakers by Founded the around from films documentary and ethnographic promotes quality D Documentary ocumentary E ocumentary

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