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Catalogue of the African Studies Library Film Collection in UCT Libraries Special Collections Catalogue of the African Studies Library Film Collection in UCT Libraries Special Collections Any queries regarding the ASL film collection please contact Bev Angus ([email protected]) Updated:June 2015 Introduction In film, as with all other African Studies material in Special Collections, we collect comprehensively on South and Southern Africa and we are also committed to strengthening and broadening our film coverage of the rest of Africa to meet existing needs and to create new opportunities for research. Film is a powerful and accessible medium for conveying the stories and images of Africa, past and present. The African continent has a long and proud tradition of film-making, and has produced many film-makers of international renown. Our collection contains documentaries, television series and feature films made by both African and international film-makers. Besides supporting the teaching and research programmes of the University of Cape Town, the African Studies Library makes provision for the preservation of the films in the collection. Please note: The films in the ASL are primarily for viewing by members of the University of Cape Town community. For a collection of African films with public access see the Western Cape Provincial Library Service collection at http://cplweb.pals.gov.za Tips on searching the collection: To facilitate searching, click the binoculars in the toolbar. Select Use Advanced Search Options. If you know the title of the film, enter the exact title in the box and select Match Exact Word or Phrase in the dropdown box e.g. “Cry the Beloved Country” For a keyword search where the exact title is unknown or you are searching around a particular topic, enter appropriate keywords in the box provided, then select Match any of the Words in the drop-drown box below e.g. cry beloved. Note: the keyword option searches full-text, not just titles, for all instances of each word entered. The term “South African feature fiction” has been added to the abstracts of South African feature films which are fictionalised accounts e.g. Cry Freedom (a film based on the life of Steve Bantu Biko). Links to selected websites and guides: Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford University): African Films, Movies, Videos http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/film.html African Films, Movies, Videos is a comprehensive listing of internet resources relating to African film maintained by librarian Karen Fung at Stanford University. African Film Library (M-Net, Cape Town, South Africa) http://www.africanfilmlibrary.com/Collection.aspx?CollectionId=11 An online reference directory of African films, with synopsis, film excerpts, commentaries, and film-related news. "The library consists of award-winning works from more than 80 producers including Senegalese Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Mambety, Yousef Chahine from Egypt and Haile Gerima from Ethiopia." African Film Festival Inc (New York) http://www.africanfilmny.org/ Since the first NY African Film Festival in 1993, AFF has cultivated an international network of industry professionals and media scholars to contribute insights to the historical and aesthetic significance of works by filmmakers in Africa and the Diaspora. Our collection of literature complements audience experiences of African cinema with the cultural contexts and production values that inform a finished work. It reflects the aspirations of AFF contributors as well as the directors themselves through interviews, film reviews, essays, and film industry observations. British Universities Film & Video Council databases (BUFVC) http://beta.bufvc.ac.uk/ British Universities Film & Video Council databases (BUFVC) hosts, curates and delivers nine online databases relating to film, television and radio content dating from 1896. It is possible to search all databases simultaneously or simply one collection at a time. http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Filmo Les cinémas d'Afrique: L'encyclopédie du film africain http://www.tv5.org/cms/cinema/p-779-Les_cinemas_d_Afrique.htm This French-language website gives access to their list of African films with options to search by film title, director, keyword, country, genre or date. The Cinema Guild: African Studies (New York) http://www.cinemaguild.com/catalog/index.html?http%3A//www.cinemagui ld.com/catalog/african_studies.htm Founded by award-winning producers Philp and Mary-Ann Hobel, and based in New York City, the Cinema Guild distributes independent, foreign and documentary films, including those relating to Africa. Columbia University Libraries. African Studies: Films and Videos on Africa http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/video.html Columbia University Libraries’ African Studies website hosts links to useful African film and video websites worldwide. The Documentary Filmmakers Association [South Africa] www.docfilmsa.com The DFA was established in 2007 to promote and protect the interests of doc filmmakers in South Africa. The DFA website is at: H-AFRLITCINE http://www.h-net.org/~aflitweb/ “H-AFRLITCINE is the H-Net discussion list dealing with African Literature and Cinema and is affiliated to the African Literature Association." Journal of African cinemas http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=158/ This online journal, edited by Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and Martin Mhando (Murdoch University) was established to “explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages.” Library of African Cinema http://newsreel.org/African-Cinema The Library of African Cinema, which is a component of California Newsreel, offers “films from Africa made by Africans”. This useful website features a comprehensive listing of films with useful synopses as well as articles to facilitate the viewing and teaching of African cinema. Michigan State University: African Media Program http://www.ngsw.org/~afrmedia/database.php "The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media." The website includes a searchable catalog, with film reviews and some tips on where to find items. The Nollywood Project http://nollywood.tumblr.com/ The Nollywood Project was launched "...to investigate the new West African video movie industry centered in Nigeria commonly known as 'Nollywood.” The website holds descriptions of the Nollywood research project in several phases, a media archive of photos, interviews and film clips. It also offers a bibliography of sources (with links to online full text) and related web links. South African National Film and Video Foundation http://nfvf.co.za/ The National Film and Video Foundation, touted on their webpage as the gateway to the South African film and television industry, promotes the equitable growth and development of the South African film and video industry. The website provides a link to Inside Film South Africa, the offical journal of the NFVF, highlighting movements within the South African film industry http://nfvf.co.za/publications and their document archive African Studies Library Alphabetical listing of films 1 PERSON 1 NOTE 24 mins DVD Director: Kyle O’Donoghue: South Africa, 2007. Producer: Plexus Films for Little Bird Series: Total soccer The vuvuzela is a piece of plastic in the shape of a horn that has somehow been adopted as a traditional South African musical instrument. Many people just think of it as a noise- making nuisance that features most prominently at soccer matches. However, to musicologist Pedro Espi-Sanchis it has the possibility of being turned into an orchestra. This would involve each player or groups of players representing just one note, with all of them together forming a chord. To try this out, he and Thandi Swartbooi, head of the music group Women Unite, launched a vuvuzela orchestra. With a core group from Cape Town, they first flew to the Free State to work with the enthusiastic Bloemfontein Celtic fans, teaching 60 of them to play a number of songs in just five days. Thereafter the entire group travelled to play at Ellis Park where, in November 2007, Bafana Bafana took on the United States in a Nelson Mandela Challenge match. 3 AYHE!: THREE MODERN HORROR STORIES FROM THE STREETS OF CAPE TOWN DVD 3Ayhe! is a storytelling project based on the Cape Flats, Cape Town."3Ayhe! is the third edition of the Ayhe! series of home-grown mini-comics, produced by Cape Town artists. The project began in 2007 and aims to publish an annual comic written and illustrated on the streets of Cape Town. 3Ayhe! is the result of a collaboration between Ayhe! and the Comic Art Unit of the Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts (CCIBA) at Stellenbosch University."--P. [2] of cover.Accompanying DVD contains: Abany' abefundisi : a township tale -- CapeCodes documentary -- The making of 'Petrified'. 3 JAHRESZEITEN NAMIBIAS see NAMIBIA’S 3 SEASONS 3RD SEX / THE 3RD SEX / THIRD SEX 53 mins (Part 1 (26 mins), Part 2 (27 mins) DVD (2003) Director: Wessel van Huyssteen: South Africa, 2002 Producer: Wessel van Huyssteen for Tin Rage Productions for SABC3 People whose external genetalia are radically ambivalent were once known as hermaphrodites and are now generally called intersexed. Though this condition is much more prevalent than is generally thought, the medical profession has traditionally regarded it as an abnormality that has to be corrected, as a result of which others decide to which sex such individuals will belong but gender assignment does not solve problem of gender identity. Strong cultural taboos in most societies keep intersexuality a secret and the participants argue that prejudice will continue as long as intersexuality is considered a disease. This documentary raises the issues involved through the stories of Sally Gross and Nombulelo Soldaat, with additional comments from the medical profession.
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