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  1. Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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  2. 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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  3. N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

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

    The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...

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  4. World at War, The. Vol 2 (6 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Ted Childs; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith
    Producer
    Peter Batty; Ted Childs; Martin Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.

    1 DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty). 2: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union’s stubborn resistance,...

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  5. I is a Long Memoried Woman (1990 Video)

    Director
    Frances Anne Solomon
    Producer
    David Wilkinson
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1998 sale £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) Arts Council 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p) Resources in Education and Training

    A drama/dance adaptation of a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. By drawing on elements of African culture such as music, sorcery and magic, it tells of a spiritual journey of an African woman taken in...

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  6. Tradition and Change (2 Parts) (1981 Video)

    Director
    Rosalind Hackett
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 25 min.

    Part 1 (1980): Leading members of the Presbyterian Church in Calabar discuss their search for identity as a Nigerian Church, in terms of liturgy and music, mission, commercial ventures, pastoral care, etc....

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  7. Getty Mishmash Remix Competition

    Date
    18 Jan 2012, 10:18
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    Post

    Getty Images have launched a new film competition - or more properly, a music/video/remix competition. Submission can include short fiction films, video art, music video, ad or mini-documentaries. At...

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  8. Bitter Melons (1966 Film)

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

    Shows a small band of G/wi people in their desert environment as they engage in a variety of daily activities: making music, dancing, gathering roots and wild melons, setting a snare for a duiker, butchering...

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  9. 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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  10. Britain in the Twenties (1936 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Brunel; Desmond Dickensen; Robert Fairthorne; Len Lye; Ivor Montagu; Hans Richter; Brian Salt
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of rare short British avant-garde films made in the 1920s, influenced by the ‘art’ cinema of the USSR and Germany. The chosen films represent the many distinct avant-garde styles of the...

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