Director’s Welcome Our first Ethnografilm is a moment to cherish for filmmakers, scholars, and all those who brought this diverse group to Paris. The Society for Social Studies of Science and the International Social Science Council have been instrumental in implementing this vision: a festival to celebrate and foster excellence in movies that enhance our understanding of the social world.
We have Paris.
We have the best fringe theatre in Paris: Ciné 13.
Most important, we have a community of filmmakers and scholars gathered for present inspiration and collaborations yet to come. What could be better?
Ethnographic film—“ethnografilm” in Greg Scott’s coinage—has been broadly defined for the 2014 festival. Our call for submissions yielded a huge variety of styles and formats, not to mention themes. Viewers will be treated to 89 films from 37 countries and, well, most continents.
Next year...Antarctica!
—Wesley Shrum, Executive Director, Ethnografilm Ethnografilm 2014
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Contents Director's welcome The Ethnografilm festival Paris--City of Lights and Cinema ISSC welcome 4s welcome Journal of Video Ethnography Organization Partners Augmented Reality Art for Film 2014 Ethnografilms 2014 Program Schedule
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The Ethnografilm Festival Ethnografilm seeks to enhance our understanding of the social world through film. Held 17-20 April 2014 in Paris, France, Ethnografilm features 89 diverse works by documentary and academic filmmakers.
Ethnografilm screens movies that advance our understanding of “humans doing things, and/or not doing things, together.” Ethnografilm selections–short and feature length films alike–will share the following characteristics: they constitute a videographic “study” of some aspect of human society; they are guided by a discernible theoretical framework regarding the subject matter at hand; they tell a story about human social action, beliefs, norms; they reflect the filmmaker’s experience of entering a delimited, well-defined “field”. Please note that most documentaries share these features–any hard and fast distinction between academic and documentary films–other than the filmmakers would be, as they say, “purely academic.”
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Paris! City of Light & City of Cinema The central venue for Ethnografilm is Ciné 13 Théâtre, fantastically located in Montmartre. You want history, character, ambiance? Countless films have been inspired by this corner of Paris.
To get to our festival venue, take the metro to Blanche station. Step outside and you’ll find yourself in front of the historic Moulin Rouge, which was so memorably re-imagined by Baz Luhrmann. You’re also at the foot of the delightful market street, Rue Lepic. This is the street where Amélie Poulain worked as a waitress, in director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s eponymous film. Take a moment to buy a delectable tart at the Petit Mitrons bakery on Lepic. Then stroll up the hill. You’ll pass the apartment where Van Gogh lived with his brother Theo, and the Moulin de la Galette, famously painted by Renoir.
This part of the city is filled with historic film theatres—from the blockbuster Pathé on Place Clichy to the tiny Studio 28, which was the first avant-garde cinema in France—it’s where Louis Buñuel premiered his surrealist collaboration with Dali, L’Age d’or. (Of course, by the time the film was shown, the two temperamental creators were no longer speaking to each other!)
The home of Ethnografilm, Ciné 13, is at the corner of Junot and Girardon. The cinema is right across the street from the print shop where Picasso once studied print-making. Just down rue
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Junot is the former home of famous Dadaist Tristan Tzara. Austrian architect Adolf Loos designed the unusual home in 1926. And the house next door once belonged to famous poster designer Francisque Poulbot. His illustrations of Parisian street urchins were so well-known, street kids started being called “poulbots” in the city’s ever-evolving slang. Street life in the 18th arrondissement is still fascinating. On the far side of the Butte, or hill, of Montmartre, is one of the city’s most varied and vibrant neighborhoods, with thriving West African food markets and traditional Arab cafés where you can smoke a hookah or narghile.
Our venue Ciné 13 has its own amazing story. Director Claude Lelouche bought this cinema in 1983 to use as a set. He renovated it into a 1920s-era club for his movie Edith et Marcel, the story of singer Edith Piaf’s tragic love affair with a boxer. Upon completing the film, Lelouche turned his set into an atmospheric movie theatre. Today, his daughter, Salome Lelouche runs the programming. And during Ethnografilm, April 17th to 20th 2014, every festival night we will retire to the argumentarium (that is, the cosy Ciné 13 lounge) to discuss the films over a glass of superlative Bordeaux.
—Lisa Pasold
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Welcome to the first edition of the Ethnografilm Festival! The International Social Science Council is proud to be associated with this exciting and pioneering international festival, the very first to explicitly bring academic and documentary filmmakers together! This is a timely initiative, as confirmed by the number of proposals and the quality of films selected. The next days will show the power of film as a medium to examine cultures and societies, everyday lives and global challenges.
The International Social Science Council is the primary organization representing the social and behavioral sciences on a global level. Through its various activities, the ISSC strives to advance and disseminate social science knowledge, and seeks to foster engagement with social issues outside of the academia. Film is a formidable tool in that respect. The work of Jean Rouch is a central reference in “profoundly entertaining”, academic film making. His influence remains immense today, and it is a privilege that Jocelyne Rouch allowed us to screen his films. But few persons know that another giant of social sciences, the very first Secretary General of the ISSC, Claude Lévi-Strauss himself, also shot a few short documentaries and explored ways of furthering his work with film. They have not been shown very often; perhaps an idea for a subsequent edition?
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I wish to congratulate the Society for Social Studies of Science, and Wesley Shrum, for taking the initiative of launching this festival. I also want to thank everybody who worked hard to make this first edition possible. Wishing you a fantastic first Ethnografilm experience!
—Alberto Martinelli, President of the International Social Science Council
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Challenging Audiences—and Filmmakers How does ethnographic film articulate critical analysis with critical participation? Videographic study can make visible in powerful ways what is hidden in an arena of study. It can challenge dominant images of that arena while formulating and attempting to scale up alternative images. As a form of knowledge production and committed expertise, ethnographic film often races past the written text, challenging audiences both within and beyond its chosen field to think and do differently. To have effect, it must theorize without jargon. It must provoke without driving away or pandering to its viewers. Ethnographic film must both trouble and fit.
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) has long supported critical analysis of the production, distribution, and utilization of knowledge and expertise. It now also formally supports creative initiatives to articulate critique with participation. For this reason, the 4S enthusiastically supports Ethnografilm. What is videographicstudy for? What are ethnographic filmmakers for? The 4S challenges videographers and their audiences to wrestle with these questions, and we look to you for insight and direction. Thank you for accepting the risks and making the effort to rethink and redo knowledge and expertise through film.
—Gary Downey, President, Society for Social Studies of Science
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Journal of Video Ethnography Ethnografilm is please to host the launch of the Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE), the first ever journal of peer reviewed ethnographic films and videos. JVE will publish two issues a year (September and March). The March 2015 issue of JVE will be devoted to a selection of films screened here at Ethnografilm '14. Visit JVE's website to learn more at http://videoethno.com.
—Greg Scott, Editor
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Organization Executive Director: Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University Associate Director: Gregory Scott, DePaul University Festival Manager: Emily Blosser, Ethnografilm Festival Local Festival Organizers: Mathieu Denis, Antony Gathier, Federica Cozzio Festival Organizers: Susan Arnold, Lucas Castle, Simon Baxter, Luke Driskell, Jewell Simon, Mervin Crump Publicity and Design: Steve Coffee Co-Founders: Wes Shrum and Greg Scott
Organizing Committee Gary Downey (e-o), President, Society for Social Studies of Science Heide Hackmann (e-0), Executive Secretary, International Social Science Council Mathieu Denis, International Social Science Council, Paris Ron Harpelle, Professor of History, Lakehead University, Canada Kelly Saxberg, Independent Filmmaker, Thunder Bay, Canada Lisa Pasold, Writer, Paris and New Orleans Alan Arrivee, Professor of Cinema, University of Mississippi Molly Merryman, Kent State University
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Program Board In addition to open submissions, Ethnografilm screens films selected by the following international festival directors: International Documentary Association–Michael Lumpkin Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival–Susanne Hammacher Hot Docs–Brett Henry Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology–Evgeny Alexandrov, Elena Danilko American Documentary Film Festival–Teddy Grouya Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival–Harjant Gill Mendocino Film Festival–Pat Ferrero Margaret Mead Film Festival–Dominic Davis Bay Street Film Festival–Ron Harpelle Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival–Beate Engelbrecht Festival International Jean Rouch– Barberine Feinberg Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival–Lisa Samford International Documentary Film Festival of Kerala–Bina Paul Venugopal Ethnocineca–Nadja Haumberger
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Advisory Board Jean Claude Penrad, Directeur de l’audio visual, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Linda Layne, National Science Foundation, Washington DC
Leandro Medina, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
B. Paige Miller, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Meredith Gontard, Directrice Artistique–ACM Ballet Théâtre
Kelly Moore, Loyola University, Chicago
Françoise Foucault, Comité du Film Ethnographique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Jeff Tamblyn, Independent Filmmaker, Kansas
Wenhua Kuo, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Steven Zehr, University of Southern Indiana
Madeleine Akrich, Ecoles des Mines, Paris
Barberine Feinberg, Département Hommes, Natures, Sociétés, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
David Redmon, Filmmaker, Montreal
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Partners International Social Science Council (ISSC), has the mission of advancing the social sciences – their quality, novelty and utility – in all parts of the world.
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4s), is a nonprofit, professional association with an international membership of over 1200. The objective of 4S is to bring together those interested in understanding science, technology, and medicine in their social contexts.
University Film and Video Association
The Video Ethnography Laboratory was established at LSU as a resource for graduate teaching and video ethnographic research. The VE Lab also maintains a tape backup facility (LTO-5) for the Louisiana State Museum for digital archiving.
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LSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Journal of Video Ethnography
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Ethnografilm and Augmented Reality Ethnografilm 2014 will feature a display of artwork and a map, each representing scenes and places from films shown at the festival. Visitors can explore the films with their mobiles through augmented reality software, allowing them to snap a photo of an art piece or map location to retrieve additional details and media related to that target. We have endeavored to plot the places of Ethnografilm 2014 including filming locations and other information submitted by directors. In addition to the map on display in Ciné 13, the compilation is presented online through an interactive web map where visitors can see the global distribution of ethnografilms and find submissions filmed or produced in their area. The augmented reality system is being organized by Jewell Simon and Simon Baxter of Lee Magnet and Luke Driskell of Louisiana State University.
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Art for Film Ethnografilm has partnered with Lee Magnet Academy of Baton Rouge, Louisiana to establish the gallery of the festival theatre (Cine 13 Theatre in the Montmartre District) with artwork, global maps, and augmented reality links to selected films.
Through this initiative, Lee Academy has created an absorptive environment for the screening and discussion of films selected by the festival committee. Each attending filmmaker will be presented with an artwork based on a screen shot from their film.
Susan Arnold, Director, Art for Film Program, Lee Magnet Academy
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Lee Magnet Academy Artists, Photographers, and DEV Team Ta’liyah Antoine Tyler Batiste Charles Bilbo Marvin Bryant Candis Bynum Noah Clifton Kellen Cooper Lynda Dang Kimberly Diep Isabella Dupre Shaunece Dupree Lysander Dupuy Leroy Dyer Tawnese Flournay Tamara Fluker Trey Francis Lenaya Freeman Kamryn Gamble Keon Goings Jireh Guidry Dejaree Johnson Joy Johnson Emily Kast Ethan Keller
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Astrid Lopez Tai’le Manning Torin McClanahan Darlene Miranda Michael Moore Savannah Newman Yessica Noriega Breanna Paul Brandon Persica Arin Prejean Karen Reyes Caprina Rhea Raven Robinson Tijani Ross Paige Sellars LaTanya Shellmire Darius Simmons Asarel Smith Errol Taylor Trmarkus Taylor Sarah Temonia Brandon Trosclair Jasmine Tunson Dayea Turner Kendalyn Walker Carliss Ward Jaylin Williams
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Julien Williams Malik Williams Aerod Wyre Yonas Yigletu
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Abandamonium Greg Scott
USA — ENGLISH "Abandominium" chronicles the lives of five heroin injectors who live together in an abandoned apartment building on the west side of Chicago. The film follows Steve and Pam, the heroin- dependent married couple who run the house, and their heroin- using housemates--Ida, John, and Spider--as they forge the best possible existence in the face of tall odds against them. This film explores and dissects an essential property of street-based heroin user subcultures: antagonistic communalism.
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Admissions Harry Kakatsakis
USA — ENGLISH Admissions is a short film starring Academy Award nominee James Cromwell that tells a transformational tale about what it takes to find lasting peace, even in war-torn places like the Middle East. Featuring an Israeli couple and a Palestinian man, this modern parable is set in the Admissions Room for the afterlife. Its purpose is to start a conversation that heals
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Alpsummer Thomas Horat
SWITZERLAND — SWISS GERMAN — FRENCH SUBTITLES— 90 MIN Alpsummer' provides deep insight into everyday life in the alps of Central Switzerland. It tells the story of four families of different generations, who administer these alps with their animals in conventional ways. In a time in which society is more and more dependent on consumption, it's refreshing to see how a simple life can make us happy. Next to the ever-ringing bells of the goat and sheep, the breathtaking landscapes are accompanied by the archaic 'Naturjuuz' (and old way of jodeling).
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La Batalla de los Invisibles / The Battle of the Invisibles Manuel de Alba
MEXICO This documentary tells the story of a five-year struggle by 2,300 janitors, most of them undocumented workers who speak little or no English, against California's most powerful supermarket chains. It was a true case of David vs. Goliath. To date, it is still the largest case of its type in the history of the United States.
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Before God: We Are All Family Lisbeth Melendez Rivera
PUERTO RICO — ENGLISH — 22 MIN The film explores the experiences of lesbian, gay, and transgender people of deep faith who have been told there is no place for them in their church of origin, and for their parents and siblings, who have been cruelly asked to choose between those they love and the religion they trust. Shot in United States and in Puerto Rico, Before God shows the daily struggle of immigrant and native born Latino families who find their strength and their faith through the struggles they face.
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La Bonne Terre Page McClean
BELGIUM — FRENCH — 10 MIN An urban farm on the outskirts of Brussels trains unemployed young people to work in agriculture using organic and traditional methods. The farm is both a hub of activities and the center of social networks that extend beyond this unique community. La Bonne Terre traces the journey from farm to table.
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Border Crossings Bill Callahan
CHINA — ENGLISH SUBTITLES—10 MIN Borders not only separate things, but are the place where people come together. 'Border Crossings' (10 min.) examines how Chinese and non-Chinese people experience their encounters with the Other (and thus with their Self) at the Lo Wu Bridge, the iconic border between Hong Kong and mainland China.
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Broken Pots Broken Dreams Maris Gillette
CHINA — CHINESE — 29 MIN What has China's transition to a market economy meant for porcelain industry workers in Jingdezhen, a center of ceramic production for over 500 years? As China has changed from an economic system with worker benefits and protections, to the current system where each individual must fend for him or herself, ceramists must redefine their lives (2009, 28:52). Anthropologist and filmmaker Maris Gillette chronicles the experiences of Jingdezhen's citizens with captivating footage of porcelain production and the neighborhoods of Jingdezhen. Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Bylo-Nebylo Maria Gutowska, Zeynep Turhalli, and Zoe Aiano
CZECH REPUBLIC — CZECH — 7 MIN Residents of a small town in the former Sudetenland region of the Czech Republic attempt to re-establish a connection between the inhabitants and the surrounding area by reviving and inventing local fairy tales.
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The Chairman and the Lions Peter Biella
TANZANIA — 46 MIN The Maasai leader of a Tanzanian village provides a glimpse into the current world of Maasai--burdened with problems that the community is ill equipped to overcome. He advocates education as a key to village self-determination, despite the fact that it can produce 'educated criminals.' The film depicts Ikoyo's duties as Chairman--persuading women to send daughters to school, interrogating spies in a lawsuit, and eliciting help of a renowned elder to train young warriors in the art of lion hunting.
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Choreography David Redmon
UNITED KINGDOM — ENGLISH— 6 MIN Life in the day at a Donkey Sanctuary.
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Country Crush Molly Merryman
USA — ENGLISH— 59 MIN Country Crush is a documentary about combine demolition derby, a locally-cultivated sport in which drivers of massive combine harvesters crash their machines in a competition that involves grinding and tearing metal, smoking engines and punctured tires. But more than competition, this is about rural community, local farming culture, and an authentic way of life that is quickly disappearing.
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Crowning Glory Lori Webster
USA — ENGLISH — 6 MIN A distinguished group of black women preserve the legacy of their church heritage by topping off their Sunday best with a stylish hat.
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Dear Scientists... Ioanna Semendeferi
USA — ENGLISH — 26 MIN A film about the seriousness of science ethics and a creative method to impart its message. It connects past with present, emphasizing the role of feelings in moral judgment.
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El Día Primero: Santa Muerte en el Barrio de Tepito Sarah Borealis
MEXICO — SPANISH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 10 MIN The peoples of Mexico have a complex relationship with death. In Mesoamerican mythology, life and death are complementary parts of the human experience. In modern Mexico, popular devotion to the Santa Muerte (Saint Death) is growing every day. This documentary features several devotees as they prepare for their monthly pilgrimage to the first public Santa Muerte altar in the Mexico City neighborhood of Tepito. "On the first of the month, the barrio of Tepito changes completely."
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Disappearing France Marie Ullrich
FRANCE — 5 MIN The elderly women of Nice seemed to carry a dignity and a sense of history in their faces and hands that contrasted with Nice's modern face of flash, glamor, multiculturalism and advertising. Disappearing France is a thoughtful visual study of the elder women of Nice, as viewed on that city's public buses. They seem to appear only intermittently as so many other elements compete for our attention.
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Eugene Jason Stanfield, Jordan Olshansky
USA — ENGLISH — 13 MIN Shot over the course of a few months, Eugene is a last-days confessional of a man who died alone in his tent in San Francisco's Presidio. Known around the area as 'Buddy,' he and his cat Trouble were a common sight panhandling on Chestnut Street, his good cheer masking a painful and damning secret about his past.
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Even Me Megan Ebor
USA — ENGLISH — 25 MIN Even Me confronts the overwhelming crisis of HIV/AIDS among older adults 50+. Defying the myth that HIV/AIDS is a gay or young person's disease, this revealing documentary depicts the devastating impact of this epidemic on the heterosexual, older adult population and communities of color. These brave men and women speak candidly about their experiences, sexual history, HIV status, and help to uncover the misconceptions about aging, sexuality and HIV/AIDS.
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Everything Comes from the Streets Alberto López Pulido
MEXICO — ENGLISH — 57 MIN Everything Comes From the Streets captures the early history of lowriding over three decades between the 1950s and 1980s in San Diego, California, and the surrounding borderlands. Our story rejects the belief that lowriding is all tied to 'gang-banging' and violence -- and instead shows lowrider car clubs as an extension of families that affirm and build communities in the colorful and complex fabric of the borderlands of the American Southwest.
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Exergesi OR Mother's Recipe for Boiled Eggs Michael Chronopoulos, Ross Domoney
GREECE — GREEK — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 12 MIN A first -person cinema documentary in the Greek language. My work will focus on film aspects of personal history. My aim is to enter the field of the social antagonist movement of contemporary Athens, Greece.
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FBI KKK Micheal Frierson
USA — ENGLISH — 82 MIN FBI KKK is the story of the film maker's father, Dargan Frierson, an FBI agent in Greensboro, NC during the civil rights movement, and how he recruited George Dorsett to be a KKK informant. With racial violence simmering in NC, home to the largest klan membership in the United States, my dad worked closely with Dorsett to disrupt klan activities.
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Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement Regan Brashear
CANADA — ENGLISH — SPANISH SUBTITLES— 60 MIN From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. Through the perspectives of six people with disabilities -- a scientist, journalist, disability justice educator, bionics engineer, scholar and exoskeleton test pilot -- FIXED takes a close look at the drive to be 'better than human' and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
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Framing the Other Willem Timmers
ETHIOPIA — ENGLISH — CZECH SUBTITLES— 25 MIN The Mursi tribe lives in the basin of the Omo River in the south of the east African state of Ethiopia. The women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings. Framing The Other is about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people in Ethiopia are shaken by her encounter with a Mursi woman.
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From Farm To Table Gabrielle Giacomo
USA — ENGLISH — 5 MIN From Farm To Table' is an Eco-documentary film showcasing a school's commitment to integrating stewardship of our earth's resources into its curriculum. The film follows students working in their school garden and sustainable organic farm from planting to harvesting and demonstrates the link between fresh locally grown sustainable products and healthier eating while simultaneously building community and promoting the stewardship of our earth's resources.
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From Our Strength: Birth and Indigenous Politics in Canar, Ecuador Suzanne Morrissey and Patricia Keith
ECUADOR — ENGLISH — SPANISH SUBTITLES— 38 MIN Ecuador is a country of extraordinary beauty and diversity, captured in this stunning film about a group of indigenous women in the Andean Highlands. Documentary footage of two childbirths and intimate interviews disrupt assumptions about 'traditional' and 'modern.' The stories of mothers, midwives, and nurses trace the complex relationships between indigenous politics, social change, and health care choices.
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The Good, the True, and the Beautiful Anwar Saab
NORWAY — NORWEGIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 31 MIN The Good, the True and the Beautiful is a documentary on the cultural aspects of medical images and their production. The film invites us to reflect on how imaging technologies have become crucial tools within the bio sciences as well as in medical practice. Through questioning the medical images status' as objective witnesses of nature, the film also challenges us to consider the interdependence of science and culture in the production of new images and imaginations of the body.
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Hard Time Ronald Harpelle
USA — ENGLISH — 55 MIN The personal evolution of a man, from a life of poverty in rural Louisiana, through the state corrections system, to becoming a political activist who has devoted his life to the plight of political prisoners in the United States. Robert King remained in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 29 years, as one of the "Angola 3,” before his release in 2001.
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Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media Patricia G. Lange
USA — ENGLISH — 57 MIN How do people share aspects of the self amid today's complex and shifting media landscape? This ethnographic film describes how people use many different types of media, including videos, live video chat, text comments, photographs, and micro web logging, to present aspects of the self that are not always available to a co-present network of friends and family. It explores new forms of mediated, imagined communities as people bond and express the self through media.
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Hidden Waters Joseph Lukawski
MOROCCO — FRENCH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 54 MIN Les eaux cachées' (Hidden Waters) tells the story of water in Fez, Morocco, the cultural practices surrounding it, and those who aim to save it for future generations. As the old hydraulic system falls into disrepair and the river running through Fez is threatened by pollution; inhabitants of the medina depend on modern water sources that become more expensive as each well dries up and each old water channel breaks down. Can Fez's famous waters be saved?
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Las historias de doña Tema Alexanderson Bolano
MEXICO — SPANISH — 8 MIN What would you remember the most if you have love a century? Doña Tema or Ms. Tema, in English, is a 99 year old woman who in her life has lived revolutions, change of governments, etc. Curiously if you ask her what does she remembers the most, she would tell you that it is the story of her brother a cristero soldier that fought in the Christian wars in Mexico in 1926-1929 who in his way to Guerrero lost his life. It is trough her loss that every year Tema prepares Mole; Mexico's most traditional dish.
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Humanexus Ying-Fang Shen
USA — ENGLISH — 13 MIN Humanexus is a reflection on mankind's long search for ways to connect each other, from cave drawings to tweeting. With significant changes in methods and tools, from very subtle processes of exchange, conversations, and to today's mass communication and shiny new technologies, the sharing of messages, ideas, and thoughts has become easier.Piecing humankind's memories of searching, Humanexus tries to explore the nature of such journey.
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I Sign, I Live Anja Hiddinga
NETHERLANDS — DUTCH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 59 MIN Jascha is a young deaf art student who doesn't much care about the hearing world. But he can't escape it if he wants to fulfill his ambitions. This makes him rebellious and uncertain. Armed with a camera, he visits Europe's only home for elderly deaf people and tries to find out how these people have lived their lives. Though Jascha's world is very different he finds himself wondering whether some answers to his questions might be found in their stories.
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In the Steppes of Ghenghis Mike Majoros
MONGOLIA — OTHER — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 59 MIN Life on the steppe is almost the same as it was during the days of Genghis Khan. IN THE STEPPES OF GENGHIS focuses on a year in the life of Khoroldai, a nine-year old girl who loves horses. She loves to groom and exercise them, but clearly her favorite thing is to race them. This intimate story is filmed over the course of a year as she weathers a brutal winter, tends to her animals, and then travels across the steppe to compete in the oldest horse race in the world.
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In The Wilderness of a Troubled Genre John Melville Bishop
USA — ENGLISH — MIN53 In The Wilderness Of A Troubled Genre considers the ethos, practicalities, practices, and ethics of making films about real people across cultures. It includes pioneers in the field like Robert Gardner, John Marshall, David MacDougall, and Richard Leacock; established filmmaker anthropologists such as Paul Henley, Sarah Elder, Rolf Husmann, Metje Postma, and Michael Yorke; as well as emerging filmmakers. This is a spirited engagement with a film-making practice that continues evolving and challenging filmmakers today.
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Des Indiens Comme Nous Sylvie Jacquemin
FRANCE — FRENCH — FRENCH— 56 MIN A group of French people share a passion for everything Native American: every week-end they dress up as Native Americans to entertain at small village fairs in France. But their big dream is to travel to the United States and meet some real Native Americans . When they finally manage to go for a 2 week-drive across the Midwest, they discover the reality of contemporary Native Americans is quite different from their idealized vision: poverty, continued loss of land, and worse, a disturbingly active discrimination by the white descendants of the settlers.
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JAPAN — OTHER — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 61 MIN The lives of hunter-gatherers, or you could say their ways of eating. They hunt what they can from surrounding nature, and then share for eating. In the tropical rain forest in Cameroon, the ethnic group called the Baka continues their traditional culture. In their language, they call food as 'jo', and good as 'joko' whatever the degree. This is an anthropological action film whose sole purpose is to simply record the mealtimes of people living in the forest.
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Kansas vs. Darwin Jeff Tamblyn
USA — ENGLISH — 83 MIN Emotionally charged story of the Kansas school board hearings on evolution. Features intimate, revealing interviews with people on both sides of the controversy and exclusive footage of the hearings. Character-driven, smart, funny, tightly edited, a journey to the epicenter of the American culture war.
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Kara Women Speak Jane Baldwin
ETHIOPIA — ENGLISH — 9 MIN Kara Women Speak features the voice of a Kara woman expressing her concerns about the uncertain fate of her people and all agro-pastoralists living in the Omo River-Lake Turkana watershed. The images and story shine a light on the consequences of multi-national hydroelectric power projects and land grabs that threaten the people of the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia. Like many indigenous cultures in the developing world, the Kara are a community living on the verge of displacement from their ancestral land, and loss of cultural identity.
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‘Lady Susan,' Missing Masterpiece by Jane Austen Michelle Lambeau
USA — ENGLISH — 19 MIN Beloved English novelist Jane Austen treasured her manuscript of 'Lady Susan,' though it was forgotten by nearly everyone and almost never saw the light of day. What was she thinking when she wrote a clever novel of adultery, cruelty and betrayal that might have seriously damaged her own reputation? Why do scholars today dismiss 'Lady Susan' as a minor work of little interest? And what does the tale and its characters reveal about the Author that everyone is so anxious to keep quiet?
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Last Taboo Tony Steyger
KENYA — ENGLISH — 25 MIN Let's face it, shit is disgusting. And food and water contaminated by shit kills one child worldwide every 20 seconds - more than AIDS and Malaria combined. But THE LAST TABOO is not a worthy charity film. Instead it uses humour and sincerity to tell the stories of two remarkable Kenyan men who are helping local communities to stop defecating in the open and start building toilets.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Let Them Eat Cake Alexis Krasilovsky
BANGLADESH — ENGLISH — SPANISH SUBTITLES— 54 MIN Five years in the making, filmed in a dozen countries, 'Let Them Eat Cake' runs the full range from the pleasures and dangers of overeating to the tragedies of world hunger. Filmmakers from Bangladesh, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, the Republic of Guinea, Turkey and the US worked together on this film.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Libre de Choix Emilie Kengmo Chappatte
USA — FRENCH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 10 MIN A portrait of Cameroonian born 'Maman' Rosalie Makoudjou who immigrated from her home to a foreign country. This short film is a visually lyrical exploration of a woman's vision and negotiation of identity as a wife, mother and professional as she challenges a fate prescribed to her by her entourage.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Magnus - en vårdag Magnus Lilleberg
NORWAY — NORWEGIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 18 MIN We join Magnus Lilleberg on an intimate journey into his everyday life as a heroin addict in the capital of Norway. He films himself with his hand-held camera and describes a tough reality without demanding compassion in return. His short documentary has been screened for politicians at the Norwegian Parliament, won the prestigious Amanda Award for Best Short Film and been critically acclaimed for its innovative form and its ability to raise questions around human dignity in one of the best health - and welfare systems in the world.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Marta hyerhang cho
USA — ENGLISH — 6 MIN To Marta, an illegal immigrant, the trip to Queens on Sunday mornings to call her children back home is what she anticipates the whole week. Yet, however hopeful she is about her endeavors, she seems to be weary at times. The film follows her Sunday journey as she tells her story.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Maturarul Stefan Scarlatescu
ROMANIA — ROMANIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 11 MIN Vladoaia Stan, aged 80, the last broommaker in Dobra village, Romania, continues to earn his living, skillfully and joyfully doing what he has done for a lifelong - handcrafted domestic brooms.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Mein Schloss Amy Adler
GERMANY — ENGLISH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 27 MIN Amy Adler grew up believing an old family legend that one day she would inherit a medieval castle. In this first-person documentary, Amy travels to Germany on a quest to understand her family history. In a land of fairytale forests and magic castles, Amy discovers the meaning of 'happily ever after.'
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Meu Pescador, Meu Velho Amaya Sumpsi
PORTUGAL — PORTUGUESE — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 59 MIN At a 2005 Carnival night, something mysterious happens at Porto Formoso bay, leaving the fishing boats wrecked. Fishermen decide to build bigger boats, but at the small village harbor it is impossible to deck them. They demand the construction of a new harbor, but many inhabitants are opposed due to a Castle ruins that lay there. If to some residents ruins look worthless, for others they are the village soul and future, as a lot of tourists would like to visit them.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Monashay Elena Dirstaru
ROMANIA — ROMANIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 30 MIN Monashay is a 30-minute documentary following the personal stories of Roma women living in rural Romania and how their lives are shaped by the discrimination they face. With warmth and humour, it explores how these women make their livelihoods and listens to their views of themselves and society, including their hopes for their children's future.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Motorbike Midwife Masumi Higashi
GHANA — ENGLISH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 25 MIN The documentary, Motorbike Midwife tracks the Herculean efforts of a fearless nurse, Linda Mba as she rides a motorbike across remote parts of Ghana to save mothers' and babies' lives. With painful births come great personal joys for all, plagued by medical complications, poor facilities and dangerous roads.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Myth of the Buddha's Birthplace James M. Freeman
INDIA — ENGLISH — 36 MIN An ancient stone inscription, discovered in 1928, declares that the Buddha was born in a village in eastern India. This claim runs counter to all established theories of the Buddha's birth. Anthropologists James Freeman and Annapurna Pandey investigate the claim and make an unexpected and significant discovery about the creation of a modern myth and the rituals that people use to honor it.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Near The Mountain Flynn Donovan
PERU — 15 MIN An old Peruvian man (80), quarry worker and his son have been cutting stone for 40+ years. We follow the two men through their arduous days as they cut stone. Interspersed cutaways visiting various sites where over the centuries this same stone has been used to create magnificent churches and mansions. The old man reminiscences on his long life as a cutter and what his contribution has been in the world.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart Robert Lemelson
INDONESIA — INDONESIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 16 MIN 'Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart' takes an impressionistic look at the ngaben, the famed and elaborate Balinese funerary ritual, from the perspective of a mourning son. The film reveals the intimacy, sadness, and tenderness at the core of this practice and the feeling and force that underlie an exquisite cultural tradition.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Observing Animals Philip Brubaker
USA — ENGLISH — 10 MIN People come from all over to observe the animals at the North Carolina Zoo. What the people don't realize is they are being observed too…
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
On Common Ground Sophie Wagner
ISRAEL — ENGLISH — 26 MIN On a small hill in the north of Israel the members of a religious kibbutz, a community of artists, and an Arab village, who share a politically fraught history including losing homes and reclaiming identity, live as neighbors. A glimpse into their life-worlds reveals conflicting narratives of victimhood and guilt, pride and wrongdoings, and points to the question of how the creation of contemporary, shared, narratives of land and people can have an effect in a country that is divided within and under constant pressure from the outside.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Once Upon a Time at 55th and Hoover Andres Enrique-Arias
SPAIN — ENGLISH — SPANISH SUBTITLES— 29 MIN The remarkable but largely unknown story of the Spanish speaking Sephardic Jews from the island of Rhodes that arrived to Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century and established a community in what is today South Central Los Angeles. Through compelling interviews with two immigrants born in Rhodes in the 1910s (quite possibly the last recorded testimony from this generation) we learn how the Sephardim of Rhodes were torn between assimilating into mainstream American culture and maintaining their identity.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
La Palabra en el Bosque Jeffrey Gould
EL SALVADOR — SPANISH — 56 MIN During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazan organized to resist National Guard repression which often involved torture and executions. In 1980s, the military engaged in scorched earth operations against their villages, inaugurating a 12-year civil war.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Player-Killer Park Doing
USA — ENGLISH — 9 MIN In 1997 one of the first perpetual worldwide online communities was created. The corporation that created the world determined that killing would be allowed inside the world. Quickly, 'Player Killers' arose in the world that would kill people in the world, take their property, and then sell it on eBay for money. How are the ethics and sociality of violence handled in this nascent virtual realm? What feelings arise inside you?
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Primitives Among Us Jon Smith
USA — ENGLISH — 48 MIN A video journey with those seeking to connect with the past through ancient technology. They might be school teachers or computer programmers, but they can light fires with sticks and make pottery from dirt. 'Primitives Among Us' tells of the people who teach and practice primitive skills in our modern society. The history of the modern primitive skills movement is detailed along with the experiences of how these individuals connect to the past in order to make a better future for all.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Promised Land and the Broken Promises Antony Palackal
INDIA — ENGLISH — 20 MIN Land has become increasingly a potent and volatile issue in India today, especially in the context of the contemporary liberalization policies of the State. In and through three representative heroic land struggles in a small sate in South India with high development index, this academic movie maps the trajectory of broken promises, seemingly a never ending predicament of the excluded and the displaced, in a state known for its revolutionary land reforms in the 1970s and for the political rhetoric thereafter.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Puzzling Gaia Leon Arellano-Lechuga
FRANCE — FRENCH — 19 MIN Paying attention to the owner of a miniature aquatic landscape, we discover that its inhabitants are more diverse and complex than what one could expect from those 0.12 cubic meters confined by a glass tank. A small portion of nature turns out to be a universe composed of a myriad of life stories, aesthetic arrangements and territories overflowing from the aquarium towards a specialized shop in the suburbs of Paris, Java Island, African rivers, Japanese rocks. . .
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Rainy Season (2013) Joan Widdifield
VIET NAM — VIETNAMESE — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 21 MIN RAINY SEASON is an intimate story about a family's unexpected change of fate, set in the larger context of post-war Vietnam. A rubber tree farming family comes to grips with their changed lives after their youngest son finds a leftover American mortar. With unprecedented access in rural Vietnam -- shot over five years under the radar of the Vietnamese government -- RAINY SEASON captures the land's sumptuous beauty and reveals the sorrows that it harbors.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Rajmonda Donna May
USA — ENGLISH — AMERICAN SIGN— 10 MIN Rajmonda, a young woman studying English as a second language, could not communicate until she was eleven years old when she moved to Texas from war torn Kosovo. Having overcome several language challenges, she is now at community college braving campus culture. Sometimes the simple things are the most difficult.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Rasa Dari Tari/ The Soul of Dance Mark Freeman
INDONESIA — ENGLISH — 26 MIN The Soul of Dance is an introduction to the vibrant diversity of contemporary dance in Indonesia. Rooted both in tradition and the idioms of modern movement this half hour documentary introduces audiences to work ranging from site-specific solos to multimedia musical theater. The documentary includes excerpts from six works and interviews with the creators discussing the relationship between tradition and innovation.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Red Double Bass Marcin Gizycki
USA — 5 MIN A time lapse film. The may Day celebration at an artists' farm in Rhode Island. When the event is over, an abandoned red double bass stays at the site.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Red Huipil from Usila
Arturo Juarez Aguilar
MEXICO — USILA — SPANISH SUBTITLES— 10 MIN A je maa jau yhein Kieh jeuh' (Red Huipil from Usila) weaves a multi-sensory journey through the worldview of Elisema Gachupin, a young fashion designer from Oaxaca. Elisema guides us via threads artfully woven in her indigenous language, Chinanteco de Usila. This tonal dialect is as musical and colorful as the traditional Chinanteco costume, parts of which are incorporated into Elisema's contemporary designs.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Reindeer People Olga Vershinina
RUSSIAN FEDERATION — RUSSIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 26 MIN The Chukchi reindeer breeders are peculiar people. They are nomads. Reindeers are their welfare, the purport of life. The mother-reindeer is the main divine being; it protects the Chukchi from misfortune and troubles. Nature is not friendly towards people here. Only Chukchi can survive in Tundra.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Reject Ruth Thomas-Suh
USA — ENGLISH — 88 MIN Reject examines the serious impact of social rejection through the findings of social and biological scientists, lessons from the classroom and the justice system, and first-hand accounts from children and their families. From neuroscientists to broken- hearted moms, our lead characters are rejection experts, by choice or by fate, and will lead us on a journey from rejection to acceptance.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Saving 10,000 - Winning a War on Suicide in Japan Rene Duignan
JAPAN — ENGLISH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 52 MIN In a war on a war on suicide, who is the enemy? Driven by tragedy to make a documentary, 'Saving 10,000' is the story of an Irishman's personal obsession to uncover the true causes of the high suicide rate in Japan. The disturbing findings include the Japanese media`s perverse love affair with suicide, a variety of cruel and predatory economic pressures and an outdated and failing mental health care system.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
A Season of Love Kiranmayi Indraganti
INDIA — ENGLISH — 51 MIN The perceptions of migratory birds among people fall into a fascinating cycle of human faith and caution within which the birds negotiate their instincts for survival and continuation of life. In the mode of a personal journey, the filmmaker tells the story of people's conditions and awareness while revisiting a few villages and habitats, and reflects on traditional, non-activist mode of conservation wherein visiting birds symbolize a graceful notion of a season of love.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Shacharit - A Morning Prayer Steven Loring
USA — ENGLISH — 10 MIN In an Old World, ultra-orthodox synagogue in the heart of Brooklyn's insular Hasidic community, we're immersed in the intimate ritual of sunrise prayer -- counterpointed by the story of one congregant, a devout rabbi, who traces his journey to this segregated life back to a McDonald's in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Silat Bawean Erwin Maisch
FRANCE — INDONESIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 8 MIN Silat Bawean or 'Pokolan' as it is called by its practitioners originates from the island of Bawean, Indonesia. Today, 'Pokolan' has become a spectacle and public performances at weddings and formal exhibitions. Like many other Bawean cultural heritage that has seen a decline, there are not many swordsman in Bawean left to preserve this once renown Bawean tradition. There were hundreds of Bawean swordsman just a few decades ago. Today, there are about 48 Swordsman left on the island.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Silkies of Madagascar David Evans
MADAGASCAR — ENGLISH — 26 MIN Silk weaving is a way of life in the rugged central highlands of Madagascar. The Silkies of Madagascar tells the inspiring story of how a cooperative of talented village women have transformed their community and are preserving ancient traditions with the help of a Peace Corps volunteer and an international folk art market. The Silkies' story illustrates that artisan businesses are the primary income source of people living in the developing world, second only to agriculture.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Singing Jade Bing Wang
USA — CANTONESE — 23 MIN Founded in 2005's Manhattan Chinatown, the Columbus Park Senior Orchestra has provided a joyous experience to its members and passing spectators through their amateur Cantonese opera performances on weekends. Singing Jade documents these endearing elderly immigrants' preparation for the New Year's Gala and invites the viewers to feel and think what it means to grow old as an immigrant and an artist with a youthful, musical spirit.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014 slaughterhouse summer Kara Wentworth
USA — ENGLISH — 7 MIN On the first day of summer, farmer bruce shears his sheep's necks in preparation for slaughter' slaughterhouse summer is a short ethnographic film that begins with the sound of a captive bolt gun and ends with top 40 radio hits played over the loudspeaker inside a mobile slaughterhouse. Rather than sensationalizing the practice of slaughter, the film explores the rhythms of boundary work between life and death, clean and dirty, animal and human, inside and outside.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Some Na Ceremonies Tami Blumenfield
CHINA — OTHER — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 31 MIN Representations of Na people (aka Moso) usually center on their matrilineal kinship system, overlooking religion, a central aspect in the lives of Na people. This film's directors decided to intervene in this omission, capturing important ceremonies on digital video. Ranging from a film festival, to a pig-sacrifice ceremony, to a three-day funerary ceremony, the ceremonies presented here are rivetingly elaborate and spiritually meaningful.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Standing on the Edge of a Thorn Robert Lemelson
INDONESIA — INDONESIAN — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 33 MIN A poignant and intimate portrait of how Imam Rohani, a retired Javanese civil servant, his wife Tri, 35 years his junior, and their daughter Lisa, grapple with poverty, mental illness, and the conservative values of rural Javanese culture. Shot over the course of 12 years and narrated by Lisa, the film explores her unfolding sense of self and identity against the backdrop of this desperate and unstable family, and documents the choices she must make to escape the fate of her parents.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Street Rituals - 5 Variations Gili Noyman
ISRAEL — HEBREW — 8 MIN STREET RITUALS - 5 Variations is a visual study of street encounters routines. The film looks for behavioral patterns that meticulously repeat themselves as in rituals. The documentation examines body language, rhythm and gestures while meeting, greeting, kissing, hugging or parting. The film aspires to present poetic version of daily and mundane activities.The film explore the poetics of everyday life in attempt to provoke a refreshing look at people behavior or cultural conduct.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
A Study on Social Poetics Lucia Hinojosa
MEXICO — SPANISH — 9 MIN This film is an experimental documentary that investigates social and political issues through video poetry. It is composed of three individual video portraits of Mexican women. The portraits are choreographed and speak to one another, showing the different ideologies which coexist in the same country.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Le Taxidermiste Prisca Bouchet, Nick Mayow
FRANCE — FRENCH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 19 MIN Working from his ramshackle home studio in rural France, taxidermist Jacques Gilbert breathes new life into dead skin - transforming plaster, metal and flesh into eerily lifelike sculptured animals. Shot in spectacular closeup - Le Taxidermiste puts the viewer right at Jacques shoulder, giving intimate access to this mysterious and ghostly world as Jacques works to reclaim another animal from falling into dust.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
They Are We Emma Christopher
CUBA — ENGLISH — 73 MIN Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade sing and dance its way back together? In Perico, Cuba is an Afro-Cuban group that has kept alive songs and dances brought aboard a slave ship by their ancestor, known only as Josefa. In a remote village in Sierra Leone, people watched a recording of the Cubans' songs and dances, joyously declared 'They are We!' and joined in with the songs. They had never forgotten their lost family, and now their descendants were coming home.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Tokyo Dreams Nicholas Barker
JAPAN — 10 MIN A voyage behind closed eyelids, this VIMEO pick is a short Zen- like film about sleeping commuters on the Tokyo Subway.Shooting without the knowledge of his subjects, director Nicholas Barker contemplates the stillness and vulnerability of his fellow passengers and wonders whether they will wake in time for their stop...An unusual departure from candid film making,TOKYO DREAMS deploys a highly formal, 'photographic' film style and extremely high production values.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Told You So Cindy Hsieh
USA — ENGLISH — 10 MIN This film is a summary of the effects that communication technology has had on our lives. From the alphabet to the Internet new communication methods have always been met with anxiety, rejects and acceptance.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Trees Tropiques Alex Fattal
BRAZIL — PORTUGUESE — 30 MIN Set in the mouth of the Amazon basin, this family portrait gets tricky when the ethics of deforestation and documentary practice intersect. This creative documentary subtly and provocatively asks, 'Who has the right to cut?' -- trees and footage. The film ruminates on the global ethics of deforestation as we learn of deforestations' symbiotic relationship with harvesting açai, Brazil's latest boom crop that has made it into popular energy drinks.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Vacant Seat Adam Grossberg
USA — ENGLISH — 26 MIN Welcome to America's 'Most Miserable City'! Stockton, California has it all: rampant crime, rising unemployment, record foreclosures, and last year, it became the biggest U.S. city ever to go bankrupt. Now, there's an open seat on Stockton's beleaguered City Council.Detropia meets Spellbound, the film is a personal, funny and poignant documentary look at life and local government in bankrupt city.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Well: Voci d'acqua dall'Etiopia Paolo Barberi
ITALY — OTHER — ENGLISH SUBTITLES— 56 MIN During the long periods of annual drought, the Borana life revolves around ancient perpetual wells, the only resource against the tragic effects of global climate change. Every day the young shepherds form human chains to be able to reach the depths of the wells to fetch out the water. Their hard work is stressed by a chant that seems to draw the great herds that are slowly moving near, after days and days of walking in search of a pasture, and are finally coming to drink at the singing Wells.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
The Woman Who Came Back Tony Rabesca
CANADA — OTHER — 9 MIN The Woman Who Came Back is based on an oral narrative shared by elders from the Tlicho region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The story follows the historic journey of the first Tlicho to make contact with Europeans in the Eighteenth Century. After being subjugated and forced to travel with a neighboring tribe, the protagonist escapes to a trading post where she learns of new knowledge that she brings back to her region.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Wounaan: A People of the Rainforest Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
COLOMBIA — ENGLISH — 70 MIN This film is an historical documentation of a high functioning society that is now effectively decimated. Filmed in the 1960s with the Wounaan, a riverine people inhabiting the Pacific coast rainforest of Colombia, it was not distributed beyond occasional classroom screenings. The activities of a constructed 'day' afford the viewer a unique glimpse into the cooperative nature of a subsistence culture; in closeups and candid moments.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Zugperlen gregor eppinger
GERMANY — POLISH — ENGLISH SUBTITLES —15 MIN The film tells the story of three cleaning ladies on a train ride into the weekend.
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
Ethnografilm 2014 Schedule
16 APRIL 2014, 6PM TO 8PM. Opening reception (filmmakers and guests only) at La Guêpe (14 Rue des 3 Frères). SESSION TIMES: 1: 11.30AM 2: 1.45PM 3: 4PM 4: 6.15PM 5: 8.30PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
SESSION 1 SESSION 4 In The Wilderness of a FBI-KKK Troubled Genre Mein Schloss Wounaan: People of the Red Huipil from Usila Rainforest El Dia Primera
SESSION 2 Street Rituals Woman Who Came Back Everything Comes from the Streets SESSION 5 Before God: We Are All Family Des Indiens Comme Nous La Bonne Terre Puzzling Gaia Rainy Season The Good, the True, and the
SESSION 3 Beautiful Silat Bawean Standing on the Edge of a Observing Animals Thorn Jo Joko Reject Framing the Other Even Me
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
SESSION 1 SESSION 4 Alpsummer Primitives Among Us On Common Ground Maturarul
SESSION 2 Myth of the Buddha's Birthplace Season of Love Near the Mountain Singing Jade Bylo-Nebylo Some Na Ceremonies From Farm to Table SESSION 5
SESSION 3 In the Steppes of Genghis A Study on Social Poetics I Sign, I Live Motorbike Midwife Zugperlen Red Double Bass Marta Shacharit-A Morning Prayer Lady Susan Humanexus Border Crossings Meu Pescador, Meu Velho Kara Women Speak
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
SESSION 1 SESSION 4 The Well Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Saving 10,000: Winning a War Human Enhancement on Suicide in Japan Monashay Tokyo Dreams Told You So
SESSION 2 Eugene
Hidden Waters SESSION 5 Last Taboo Disappearing France Libre de Choix Let Them Eat Cake Silkies of Madagascar Las Historias de Dona Tema
SESSION 3 Taxidermiste Gare du Nord They Are We Tourou et Bitti Ngaben: Emotion & Restraint La Palabra en el Bosque Slaughterhouse Summer Reindeer People Crowning Glory Rajmonda
Paris France, April 17-20 Ethnografilm 2014
SUNDAY, APRIL 20
APRIL 20, SESSION 1 Promised Land, Broken Promises From Our Strength Chairman and the Lions SESSION 4 Once Upon a Time at 55th Hard Time and Hoover Battle of the Invisibles
SESSION 2 Choreography
Admissions SESSION 5 Abandamonium Broken Pots, Broken Dreams Women of the Storm Vacant Seat Hey Watch This Magnus-A Spring Day
SESSION 3 Trees Tropiques Exergesi Country Crush Kansas versus Darwin Rasa Dari Tari Dear Scientists
Paris France, April 17-20