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Two films from the cinematographer of KOYAANISQUATSI, Ron Fricke. BARAKA (1992) is a visually stunning film shot over 13 months in 24 countries, providing an overwhelming experience that spans the...
In the summer of 1962 form 5E of Sandford County Secondary School for Girls, Leeds, left school for the last time at the age of 15. The film reunites then 22 years later. Between them they have 30 marriages,...
An account of an Australian aboriginal people steering their way through an often frustrating process of offical decision-making as seen from their viewpoint, far away from Canberra. Focuses on two men...
How the Maasai live today. The programmes are structured as a film diary of a seven-week visit to a single village, with each part covering a period of a week to ten days following several events.
A major series of 12, 60-minute television programmes presenting a penetrating look at post-Mao China. The first programme, REMEMBERING, puts modern China in a historical perspective, and each of the...
A portrait of a young couple and their two children living in Manila. They live in a squatters’ area in the city suburbs and scrape a living by selling cigarettes illegally outside a downtown hotel. The...
Looks closely at three different communities examining the way in which African peoples mastered the problems of creating a way of life in a varied and often hostile environment. Looks in particular at two...
One group of Rom Gypsies who live near San Francisco, California, maintain the boundary between themselves and non-gypsies with whom they have contact. One practical way of maintaining separateness is to use...
Discusses the use of fire as a symbolic reproduction of society. Shows these ideas through everyday life among the Kayapo of Brazil, through their telling of the jaguar myth and showing the ritual that...
The Muria are a tribal group living in a relatively isolated area of central India. Their way of life differs from the general Indian pattern in many respects, particularly in the independence of spirit...
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