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Masks, Fetishes and Other Obsessions: A Voyage into Traditional African Art (2008)

Subject
Anthropology

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £120 [University rate]

Lekha Sarkar explores the myths and stereotypes associated with traditional African masks and through them their associated cultures. She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests,...
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Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film

Date
4 Jun 2014, 13:50

Author
Sergio Angelini

Post Type
BUFVC Review

Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film edited by Beate Engelbrecht (Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2007), 504 pages, ISBN: 978-3631507353, £35.80. About the Author: Susanne Hammacher is the Film Officer...
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Swiss Yodelling - Thirty Years Later (2015)

Producer
Hugo Zemp

Subject
Anthropology; Music

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 71 minutes + 21 minutes of extras), $340.00

Thirty years after the first four documentaries, this film continues the research of the particular yodel style of the Muotatal, a Swiss alpine valley. In the 1980s, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp found the...
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Substance, The: Albert Hoffmann’s Lsd

Director
Martin Witz

Subject
Chemistry; Social Studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £17.99

Martin Witz’s documentary tells the story of the drug which Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized in a laboratory in 1943. The film follows Hofmann’s experiments with the drug on himself, the research...
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Film Socialisme (2011)

Director
Jean-Luc Godard

Subject
Film studies; Politics & government

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes)

An allegorical , semi-documentary cine-essay that is a meditation on the history, culture, philosophy and economics of modern Europe. Described by Godard as ‘a symphony in three movements’: THINGS SUCH...
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State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s (2006)

Director
Geoff Dunlop

Producer
John Wyver; Geoff Dunlop

Subject
Art

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 320 minutes), £39.99

A series of six authoritative and challenging documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists...
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Watching Seven Up

Date
14 Jun 2012, 14:08

Author
Sergio Angelini

Post Type
BUFVC Article

The Seven Up series of TV documentaries by Michael Apted has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven yearly intervals, with the next edition planned for screening on ITV later in...
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