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  1. Shooting Freetown (2011)

    Director
    Kieran Hanson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £15.00

    A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,...

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  2. Manenberg (2010)

    Director
    Karen Waltorp; Christian Vium
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £50.00

    MANENBERG is the debut documentary film by directors and anthropologists Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium, who have lived and done extensive research in Manenberg a suburb outside Cape Town - since 2005. The...

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  3. Lumina Amintirii (2010)

    aka: In the Light of Memory

    Director
    Alyssa Grossman
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £50.00

    LUMINA AMINTIRII explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest...

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  4. Masks of Mer, The (2010)

    Director
    Michael Eaton
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 37 minutes), £50.00

    The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. The MASKS OF MER tells the extraordinary story of this...

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  5. Men at Work (2010)

    Director
    Christine Moderbacher
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 32 minutes), £15.00

    MEN AT WORK depicts the daily working life of one of the few remaining institutions in Austria that still employs only men. They are responsible for a 39 km stretch of Austria’s biggest highway and transit...

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  6. Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2009)

    Director
    Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Education; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 99 minutes), £50.00

    Mulberry Bush School is an Oxford education facility for emotionally disturbed children, who have been excluded from mainstream schools. Filmmaker Kim Longinotto captures the inner life of Mulberry Bush,...

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  7. Je ne Suis Pas Moi-MÊme (2009)

    Director
    Alba Mora; Anna Sanmarti
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Business studies; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

    Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, the film examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal...

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  8. Professional Foreigner, The: Asen Balilci and Visual Ethnography (2009)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci...

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  9. Encountering Eloyi (2009)

    Director
    Richard Werbner
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £50.00

    Of all the faith-healing churches in Botswana, Eloyi is the most controversial. Sensational stories in newspapers and on television have made Eloyi notorious for so-called witch-busting and for exorcising...

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  10. Breeding Cells (2009)

    aka: Schwangere Zellen

    Director
    Anna Straube; Gregor Gaida; Mirren Artola; Saskia Warzeka
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 39 minutes), £20.00

    Filmed in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital in Berlin, this video looks at the procedures involved in a fertility clinic through an experimental anthropological gaze. Concerned with the...

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