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  1. Maitres Fous, Les (1955 Film)

    aka: Mad Masters, The

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...

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  2. Network (1982)

    Genre
    Feature

    Severn Sound Radio special The Janos People, recounting a close encounter of the fourth kind when a family of 5 travelling in a car in Oxfordshire in 1978 were taken aboard a spacecraft, medically examined,...

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  3. Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed (1981 Film)

    Director
    Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch; Linda Connor
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Balinese spirit medium, Jero Tapakan, views a video recording of a film featuring herself entitled A BALINESE TRANCE SEANCE. She comments on the film and explains the seance proceedings.

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  4. Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland (1977 Video)

    Director
    Carmen Opipari; Sylvie Timbert
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In the divine Afro-Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children in the suburbs of Sao Paulo (Brazil) who introduce and guide us to this...

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  5. Trance and Dance in Bali (1968 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Gregory Gateson; Margaret Mead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Balinese ceremonial dance drama in which the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon, the death-dealing and the life-protecting, is played out to the accompaniment of comic interludes and...

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  6. Curing Ceremony, A (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A medicine man may go into a trance without the stimulus of dancing to treat someone who urgently needs his attention. /Ti!kay treats Sha//gai, a young pregnant woman who is about to have a miscarriage. Made...

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  7. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1947 Video)

    aka: Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen

    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £24.00

    The material was recorded by Maya Deren when she went to Haiti on four trips to make a film of Haitian dance. Having become increasingly involved with the voodoo experience she abandoned her original...

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  8. Four Films on a Healer in Central Bali (1980)

    Director
    Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

    Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium, goes into trance to give clients advice from the spirit world. The viewer has an intimate view of Jero’s household shrine, of the trance process and of Jero as an...

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  9. IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

    aka: House of Life, The

    Director
    David Byrne
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

    An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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