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Khyal: Classical Singing of North India (1998)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 48 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Veena Sahasrabuddhe, one of India’s leading classical singers, presents a unique insight into the khyal form and the processes of improvised performance. Using numerous demonstrations, she dissects one of...

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Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

Director

Jean Hellwig

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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Marimba Music of Mexico (1967 Film)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Although in Guatemala and in Chiapas the marimba is often played by Indians in the mountains, most Latin-Americans have come to associate the marimba with the music of the mestizos, people of mixed Indian...

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Koyaanisqatsi (1983 Video)

Director

Godfrey Reggio

Producer

Godfrey Reggio

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

OUT of DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min.

A personal view of America, with a strongly environmental theme, set to music by Philip Glass. (The Hopi Indian title word means ‘unbalanced life’.)

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Indian Pilgrimage, An: Ramdevra (1974 Film)

Director

Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini

Producer

Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ramdev, a medieval martial hero and saint of western India, has become the focus of a miracle cult spread by a growing body of folk music. The film follows a group of Hindus on pilgrimage from Bombay to...

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Phantom India (7 Parts) (1969 Film)

Director

Louis Malle

Producer

Elliott Kastner

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Part 1: Briefly opens in Calcutta then goes to the South in search of traditional India, of religious piety, of the agricultural problems showing aspects of the daily lives of fishermen and peasants. Some...

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Tribals of Chhotanagpur, The (8 Parts) (1993 Video)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 8 x 17-20 min each.

A series showing the tribals of Chhotanagpur, India. Gives an insight into social, cultural and economic aspects of the tribals and critically examines the impact of modernity on their traditional way of...

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In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

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Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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Mahabharata, The (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Michel Propper

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 313 minutes), £19.99

Peter Brook’s adaptation of the classic Hindu epic story, which could be translated as ‘the great history of mankind’, the longest poem in history, a saga of fighting battles and finding peace, of good...

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