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Tibetan New Year, A (1987 Video)

Director

Jon Jerstad

Producer

Jon Jerstad

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Meridian Trust) 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Documents the Tibetan new year celebrations carried out by the monks of the only Bonpo community outside Tibet, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Shows the enactment of the annual ceremony with the...

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Abbey, The (3 Parts) (1995 Video)

Director

Jonathan Stedall

Producer

Andrew Holmes

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60, 55, 50 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) (series)

Allen Bennett goes behind the scenes to explore hidden aspects of Westminster Abbey.

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Chole Island: A Woman’s Place (1978 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the relations between men and women in a Tanzanian community which seem to conform to the Islamic ideal of segregation. All Swahili rituals, including marriage, involve hospitality. While the men...

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Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2007)

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £15.99

Described by The Village Voice as ‘an astonishingly voluptuous skeleton key to Matthew Barney’, this documentary follows artist Matthew Barney (best known for The Cremaster Cycle) and his collaborator,...

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There is Nothing Wrong with My Uncle (2012)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £50.00

Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to the land of the Tarok people in Nigeria to observe the local death rituals and the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honouring the departed. This film provides a...

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Saltmen of Tibet, The (1998)

Subject

Anthropology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 109 minutes), $29.99

Shot under extreme conditions, this film documents the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community. Filmmaker Ulrike Koch reveals a realm untainted by the tides of foreign...

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Tibet: The Bamboo Curtain Falls (2012)

Producer

Simon Normanton

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), $7.49

A 1981 episode of The World About Us that documents the history of political struggle between Tibet and China through archival film shot by western travellers in the early part of the century. Shows daily...

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Hogmanay

aka: Hogmanay: Told by Jimmy Reid

Director

Edward McConnell

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £12.99

With its roots in religious festivals and ancient rituals to lure the sun back as it fell lower and lower in the winter sky, Hogmanay is a uniquely Scottish New Year festival known throughout the world....

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River Called Titas, A (2002)

aka: Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 161 minutes), £19.99

Based on a Bengali novel by Advaita Malla Barman, A RIVER CALLED TITAS was filmed in Ghatak’s home of East Bengal after the independence of Bangladesh. Overwhelmed by the changes in his native land, Ghatak...

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Magic in the Web of Art (1978 Television)

Series

Open University A101

Producer

Paul Kafno

The programme, presented by Joe Barber, considers the importance of magical experience in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It looks at a gnostic mass performed by a group in New York City and compares the role...

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