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Ceremony of the Land (1979 Video)

Director

James Woodward-Nutt

Producer

P Love

Subject

Law

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 14 min.

Ceremony depicting how land was transferred prior to 1845.

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Awards Ceremony

Date

25 Apr 2014, 15:47

Author

Sarah Allen

Post Type

Page

All nominated entries were showcased and the winners of each category announced at the Learning on Screen Awards 2014 on the evening of Thursday 24 April 2014 at the BFI Southbank, London. The evening...

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Bali: Down from the Mountain (1978 Film)

Director

Peter Ramsden

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the use of water in Bali and its relation to purity. Shows sequences of stages of the ceremony for consecrating holy water and of the three-month ceremony for removing the impurities of birth.

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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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Spirit of the Navajo, The (1966 Film)

Director

Mary Jane Tsosie; Maxine Tsosie

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An old medicine man, Sam Yazzie, looks for roots to use in a ceremony. He prepares for a sand painting and part of the actual curing ceremony in which the patient appears is shown.

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Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

aka: Good-Bye Old Man

Director

David MacDougall

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...

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Ainu Bear Ceremony, The (1931 Video)

Director

N G Munro

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 27 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...

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Ceremonies End, The (1972 Film)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Producer

John Martin-Jones

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This sequence shows a purification ceremony, the dismantling of the head-dresses, a concluding feast, and an eloquent speech for the initiates. A sacred betelnut ceremony is conducted and the lecture, which...

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Nitha (1991 Video)

Director

Leslie Woodhead

Producer

Leslie Woodhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...

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Baruya Muka Archival (17 Parts) (1991 Video)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Producer

Ian Dunlop

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Enquiries to RAI, Videocassette. VHS. col. 49, 55, 53, 23, 60, 54, 57, 29, 58, 28, 35, 41, 56, 48, 54, 50, 57 min.

An archival film document in 17 parts of the Baruya initiation ceremony, filmed over a six-week period in 1979 and edited in 1990. The programme records the intense ritual activity of a full Muka or...

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