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  1. Return to the Brouck, The Fenland, Forty Years on (2010)

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    In 1970, documentary filmmaker Colette Piault and her colleagues produced a film on the lives of a group of young people living in the Brouck (the Audomarois Fenland) area of Northern France. Forty years...

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  2. Charcoal-Makers (1990 Video)

    aka: Ta Karbouna

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £24.00

    Describes the technical process of charcoal making in the Greek mountains of Epirus. The charcoal-makers, who have sometimes come from distant places with their families, rent themselves and their work out...

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  3. My Family and Me (1986 Video)

    aka: H Oikogenia Mou Kai Ego

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £24.00

    Examines family relationships in the context of migration. Thanassakis, a 13-year-old boy, is staying with his grandparents in their Greek village in Epirus, while his parents are staying with his younger...

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  4. Let’s Get Married...! (1985 Video)

    aka: Ela na Pandreftoume

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £20.00

    While on holiday in Greece Eleni, who lived with her Aunt Martha’s family in Martin, Tennessee, met Dimitrius, who was living and working with his father in their Greek village in Epirus. They fell in love...

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  5. Hard Life, A (1983 Video)

    aka: Mia Skliri Zoi

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £24.00

    Follows Kalliopi Kalogerou, who has spent her entire life in the Greek village in Epirus where she was born in 1900. A simple witness to the century, she has lived through Turkish domination and successive...

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  6. Thread of the Needle (1982 Video)

    aka: Thread of a Needle

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 22 minutes), £24.00

    Young men leave their rural Greek village in Epirus to find work, learn a trade or serve in the army while a young woman may leave her father’s house only to enter her husband’s. The unmarried girls...

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  7. Every Day is Not a Feast Day (1980 Video)

    aka: Den Einai Pasxa Katha Mera

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £24.00

    A chronicle of daily life in a village in Epirus, northern Greece. Although the village appears to be virtually self-sufficient, the truth is that its economic, social and family life depend on the outer...

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  8. Albertine and Dorcas (1972 Video)

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £20.00

    Compares daily work of two women in Abijan. Albertine, the mother of a family, lives in Adjamés neighbourhood. Her work consists of preparing and selling ‘achéké' (manioc semolina). Her rather...

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  9. Brouck, Le (1972 Video)

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 38 minutes), £20.00

    Looks at a precise moment of consciousness of socio-economic agricultural problems faced by eight young fenlanders from Saint-Omer, Pas de Calais, a moment when French farmers were tempted to replace...

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