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  1. 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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  2. Timothy Asch (1932–1994)

    Date
    12 Sep 2014, 10:17
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California, Timothy Asch made several groundbreaking documentaries and was a champion for the use of...

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  3. Celebration of Origins, A (1993 Video)

    Director
    Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch; E Douglas Lewis
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A portrait of a rarely performed cosmogenic ritual in the domain of Wai Brama in eastern Flores, Indonesia. The people are shifting cultivators, hunters and gatherers who have maintained their traditional...

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  4. Ax Fight, The (1975 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch
    Producer
    Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Four views of a fight among the Yanomamo of Venezuela. The first is an unedited version of the fight as filmed by the cameraman soon after he arrived. The second is an analysis of the ritual context of the...

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  5. Feast, The (1967 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Napoleon A Chagnon
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Set among the Yanomamo Indians of morthern Brazil and southern Venezuela, the feast cements an alliance between previously hostile villages for the purpose of attacking a third. (The action is first...

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  6. Three Films from Eastern Indonesia (2006)

    Director
    James J Fox; Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £50.00

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  7. Magical Death (1973 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Napoleon Chagnon
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw‰ in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....

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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. Sons of Haji Omar (1978 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Asen Balikci; Eugene Boyko; David Newman; Richard Sorensen
    Producer
    Don Hopkins; Douglas MacDonald; Michael McKennirey
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtun tribal group in north-eastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on this family: Haji Omar, the patriarch, a wealthy settled nomad, determined on...

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  10. 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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