Ringtone
- Synopsis
- Yolngu Aboriginal families offer glimpses into their lives and relationships through their choice of ringtones. From ancestral clan songs to 80s hip hop artists and local gospel tunes, these songs connect individuals into a world of deep and enduring connection. And yet, simultaneously the phone opens Yolngu to new vectors of vulnerability and demand. Made collaboratively by a new media arts collective of indigenous and non-indigenous filmmakers, the film offers a beautiful and surprisingly moving meditation on the connections and intrusions brought by mobile phones to a once-remote Aboriginal community.
- Country
- Australia
- Year of release
- 2014
- Notes
- Yolngu Aboriginal Language with English subtitles
- Subjects
- Anthropology; Technology
- Keywords
- Aboriginal peoples; mobile phones; social anthropology; telephones
Credits
- Director
- Jennifer Deger; Paul Wunungmurra
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0 PAL
- Price
- £50.00 (sale); £15.00 (hire)
- Availability
- Sale Hire
- Duration/Size
- 30 minutes
- Year
- 2017
Distributor
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute
- Contact
- Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer)
- film@therai.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.therai.org.uk/film/film-sales External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7387 0455
- Fax
- 020 7388 8817
- Address
- 50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT - Notes
- The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.
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