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Appendix Screenings and Additional Resources Appendix Screenings and Additional Resources The analyses of various films and television programmes undertaken in this book are intended to function ‘interactively’ with screenings of the films and programmes. To this end, a complete list of works to accompany each chapter is provided below. Certain of these works are available from national and international distribution companies. Specific locations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia for each of the listed works are, nevertheless, provided below. The entries include running time and format (16 mm, VHS, or DVD) for each work. (Please note: In certain countries films require copyright clearance for public screening.) Also included below are further or additional screenings of works not analysed or referred to in each chapter. This information is supplemented by suggested further reading. 1 ‘Believe me, I’m of the world’: documentary representation Further reading Corner, J. ‘Civic visions: forms of documentary’ in J. Corner, Television Form and Public Address (London: Edward Arnold, 1995). Corner, J. ‘Television, documentary and the category of the aesthetic’, Screen, 44, 1 (2003) 92–100. Nichols, B. Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994). Renov, M. ‘Toward a poetics of documentary’ in M. Renov (ed.), Theorizing Documentary (New York: Routledge, 1993). 2 Men with movie cameras: Flaherty and Grierson Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, 1922. 55 min. (Alternative title: Nanook of the North: A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic). 219 220 APPENDIX US: Facets Multimedia, Inc 1517 West Fullerton Ave Chicago IL 60614 Telephone: 773 281 9075 Fax: 773 929 5437 Email: [email protected] Website: www.facets.org VHS and DVD UK: British Film Institute 21 Stephen St London W1T 1LN Telephone: 20 7255 1444 Email: [email protected] Website: bfi.org.uk VHS Australia: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (National Access Film and Video Collection) 222 Park St South Melbourne Vic 3205 Telephone: 03 992 7040 Fax: 03 9929 7027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.acmi.net.au 16 mm and VHS Drifters, John Grierson, 1929. 58 min. US: Facets Multimedia, Inc. 1517 West Fullerton Ave Chicago IL 60614 Telephone: 773 281 9075 Fax: 773 929 5437 Email: [email protected] Website: www.facets.org VHS UK: Concord Video Rosehill Centre 22 Hines Rd Ipswich Suffolk IP3 9BG Telephone: 01473 726012 Fax: 01473 274531 Email: concord [email protected] Website: www.ConcordVideo.co.uk 16 mm APPENDIX 221 Australia: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (National Access Film and Video Collection) 222 Park St South Melbourne Vic 3205 Telephone: 03 992 7040 Fax: 03 9929 7027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.acmi.net.au 16 mm and VHS Additional resources Under Grierson’s tutelage the so-called British documentary film move- ment produced a rich field of documentary films. Among the many works made by filmmakers associated with the movement during the 1930s and 1940s are: Cargo from Jamaica (Basil Wright, 1933), Song of Ceylon (Basil Wright, 1934), BBC: The Voice of Britain (Stuart Legg, 1934), Workers and Jobs (Arthur Elton, 1935), Housing Problems (Arthur Elton and Edgar Anstey, 1935), Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 1936), The Saving of Bill Blewitt (Harry Watt, 1936), North Sea (Harry Watt, 1938), Spare Time (Humphrey Jennings, 1939), London Can Take It (Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings, 1940), Target for Tonight (Harry Watt, 1941), Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings, 1942), Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943), The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings, 1943), Western Approaches (Pat Jackson, 1944) and A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings, 1946). Robert Flaherty produced a variety of films during his life. Following Nanook of the North he made, among other films, the collaborative work Industrial Britain ( John Grierson and Robert Flaherty, 1933), Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age (1926), Man of Aran (1934) and Louisiana Story (1948). In 1942 Flaherty made The Land at the invitation of Pare Lorentz for the US Agricultural Adjustment Administration, a federally funded New Deal project. The Land was originally commissioned by the United States Film Service (an organization created in 1938 with Lorentz as its head), which was disbanded in 1940. During the brief period of its existence the US Film Service used government sponsorship in the Griersonian manner to produce films that, as with the British documentary film movement, deployed documentary film as a form of civic education. Lorentz’s own films are exemplary in this regard: The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), The River (1937) and The Fight for Life (1940). Further reading Aitken, I. (ed.) The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998). 222 APPENDIX Flaherty, R. ‘How I filmed Nanook of the North’, in H. M. Geduld (ed.), Film Makers on Film Making (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971). Snyder, R. L. Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993). Winston, B. Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited (London: British Film Institute, 1995). 3 Constructing and contesting otherness: ethnographic film The Ax Fight, Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon, 1971. 30 min. US and UK: Facets Multimedia, Inc 1517 West Fullerton Ave Chicago IL 60614 Telephone: 773 281 9075 Fax: 773 929 5437 Email: [email protected] Website: www.facets.org VHS Australia: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (National Film and Video Lending Service) 222 Park St South Melbourne Vic 3205 Telephone: 03 992 7040 Fax: 03 9929 7027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.acmi.net.au 16 mm and VHS ‘Cannibal Tours’, Dennis O’Rourke, 1987. 70 min. (Alternative title: ‘Cannibal Tours’: Postmodern Encounters on the Upper Sepik). US: Direct Cinema Ltd PO Box 10003 Santa Monica CA 90410 1003 Telephone: 310 636 8200 Email: [email protected] Website: www.directcinema.com VHS UK: Camerawork Pty Ltd PO Box 199 Canberra Australia 2601 Email: [email protected] VHS APPENDIX 223 Australia: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (National Access Film and Video Collection) 222 Park St South Melbourne Vic 3205 Telephone: 03 992 7040 Fax: 03 9929 7027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.acmi.net.au VHS Additional resources Films prominent within the ethnographic tradition include: The Hunters ( John Marshall, 1958), Dead Birds (Robert Gardner, 1964), The Feast (Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon, 1969), Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman’s Life (Roger Sandall, 1972), Rivers of Sand (Robert Gardner, 1974), Trobriand Cricket (Gary Kildea, Jerry Leach and the Kabisawali Movement, 1975), Goodbye, Old Man (David MacDougall, 1977), The House Opening ( Judith MacDougall, 1980) First Contact (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, 1982), Celso and Cora (Gary Kildea, 1983), Forest of Bliss (Robert Gardner, 1985), Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, 1988) and Black Harvest (Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, 1992). Further reading Biella, P. and G. Seaman. Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight (book and CD ROM) (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997). Grimshaw, A. The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). MacBean, J. R. ‘Degrees of otherness: a close reading of First Contact, Joe Leahy’s Neighbors, and Black Harvest’, Visual Anthropology Review, 10, 2 (1994) 55–70. MacDougall, D. Transcultural Cinema (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). Ruby, J. Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). 4 Decolonizing the image: Aboriginal documentary productions Two Laws, Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini, with the Borroloola community, 1981. 130 min. (Alternative title: Two Laws/Kanymarda Yuwa). 224 APPENDIX US and UK Smart Street Films PO Box 198 Sandringham Vic Australia 3191 Telephone: 03 9521 8598 Fax: 03 9521 8690 Email: [email protected] Website: www.smartstreetfilms.com.au VHS Australia: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (National Access Film and Video Collection) 222 Park St South Melbourne Vic 3205 Telephone: 03 992 7040 Fax: 03 9929 7027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.acmi.net.au 16 mm and VHS Quest for Country, Michael Riley, 1993. 24 min. (Part of the series Spirit to Spirit) US and UK: Blackfella Films Pty Ltd 8 Hastings Parade Bondi Beach NSW Australia 2026 VHS Australia: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (National Access Film and Video Collection) 222 Park St South Melbourne Vic 3205 Telephone: 03 992 7040 Fax: 03 9929 7027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.acmi.net.au VHS Bush Mechanics, Francis Jupurrurla Kelly and David Batty, 2001. A televi- sion series of four episodes (Motorcar Ngutju, Payback, The Chase, The Rainmakers), each episode 26 min. US: First Run Icarus Films 32 Court St, 21st floor Brooklyn NY 11201 APPENDIX 225 Telephone: 718 488 8900 Email: [email protected] Website: www.frif.com VHS UK and Australia: Film Australia PO Box 46 Lindfield NSW Australia 2070 Telephone: 02 9413 8634 Fax: 02 9416 9401 Email: [email protected] Website: www.filmaust.com.au VHS Additional resources See Tracey Moffat, Moodeitj Yorgas (Solid Women, 1988), Wayne Barker, Milli Milli (ABC, 1993), Rachel Perkins, Freedom Ride (1993), Broken English, co-produced by Rachel Perkins, with director Ned Lander (SBS, 1993), Frances Peters-Little, Tent Embassy (ABC, 1997), Steven McGregor, Apekathe (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, 1998) and Darlene Johnson, Stolen Generations (SBS, 2000). Further reading Janke, T. and Company, Towards a Protocol for Filmmakers Working with Indigenous Content and Indigenous Communities (Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 2003). Langton, M. ‘Well, I Heard it on the Radio and I saw it on the Television’: An Essay for the Australian Film Commission on the Politics and Aesthetics of Filmmaking by and about Aboriginal People and Things (Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1993). Molnar, H. and M. Meadows, Songlines to Satellites: Indigenous Communication in Australia, the South Pacific and Canada (Sydney: Pluto Press, 2001).
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