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Series
Criterion collection volume 648
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
By interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people and give us a document of a time and place with extraordinary depth.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Hmong
Description
"In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit Di happily recounts her experiences to Vietnamese filmmaker Diễm Hà Lệ, who planted herself within Di's family over the course of three years to document this unique coming of age. As Di grows older, her carefree childhood...
4) Sweetgrass
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"--Container.
5) Manakamana
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Nepali
Description
"Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity ... For centuries, devoted pilgrims hoping to reach the fabled temple needed to undertake an arduous multi-day journey. Today, because of a new cable car system, the entire trip takes just under 10 minutes...
6) Moana
Publisher
Kino Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after the original release of the film, the Flahertys' daughter,...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
中文
Description
"Filmed over three years on China's railways, J. P. Sniadecki's masterful documentary traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. THE IRON MINISTRY immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines...
Series
Publisher
AMN Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
Hindi
Description
"Kids and parents of all ages will enjoy the best of festivals in India. Take a magical ride with children to celebrate and experience the festivities through childrens' eyes. Have fun sharing sweets, splashing colors, flying kites, and cracking fireworks."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fimed in 2008 and 2009, an intimate portrait of the auto repair shops and junkyards that lie in the shadow of the New York Mets' Citi Field Stadium, in Willets Point, Corona, Queens, and the hardscrabble community of immigrants who work and live there. Once ignored and neglected by the city government, these residents recently became the target of a $3 billion redevelopment project of malls, offices, and high-rise condos.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Indonesian
Description
The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
11) El mar la mar
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, the film weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with hand-processed 16mm images of flora, fauna, and items left behind by travelers. Subjects speak of intense, mythic experiences in the desert: A man tells of a fifteen-foot-tall monster said to haunt the region, while a border patrolman spins a similarly bizarre tale of man versus beast. A sonically...
Author
Publisher
Peabody Essex Museum
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
中文
Description
Three short films describe age-old traditions and contemporary lifestyles in the villages of the Huizhou region of China's Anhui province. Yin yu tang (17 minutes, 20 seconds) presents the significance of the ancestral home in rural China and describes how the home is dismantled and re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum. Guo nian (16 minutes, 38 seconds) documents contemporary New Year's celebrations and reminiscences of celebrations past. Guomen...
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
"Jean Rouch was an inspiration for the French New Wave, and a revolutionary force in ethnography and the study of Africa. Beginning in 1955 with his most controversial film The Mad Masters, through 1969's darkly comic Little by Little, these films represent the most sustained flourishing of Rouch's practice of "shared anthropology," a process of collaboration with his subjects. Astonishing on their own terms, now restored and released for the first...
14) Kivalina
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Shows life in the small Inupiaq village of Kivalina, Alaska, and the difficulties residents face with the impacts of sea level rise as their Island disappears with each passing storm.
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
None
Description
Nanook of the North: presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. Contains both documentary footage and staged scenes.
The wedding of Palo, Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist...
16) Pine Ridge
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"Filmed on the Native American reservation of the same name in South Dakota, where Americans with native blood live a life in the middle - and yet outside - of American society, Pine Ridge explores what shapes the lives and dreams of today's Native American youth. Depicted on their own terms during a long warm summer, Lance Red Cloud, Kassel Sky, Cassandra Warrior, her young daughter Diamond Rose, and their friends and families know one thing for...
17) Summer pasture
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Tibetan
Description
"Filmed in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet [in 2007], Summer pasture offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a young nomad couple and their infant daughter. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet--nicknamed '5-most' by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote country in Sichuan Province. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, much as their ancestors have for generations. In recent...
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Daniel Everett is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahá people and their language. This documentary explores whether one man's journey into the heart of the Amazon can redefine the understanding of human language.
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