Movies: Etnography
- 2018
Totems and Taboos (2018)
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In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Be...
- 2013
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013)
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On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John....
- 1978
O Porto de Santos (1978)
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A portrait of Santos Port, its geography, workers and the life that surrounds it, including the poor, prostitutes and the night life inhabitants....
- 2017
Entre la ola y la roca (2017)
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- 2013
Meu Pescador, Meu Velho (2013)
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At a 2005 Carnival night, something mysterious happens at Porto Formoso bay, leaving the fishing boats wrecked. Fishermen decide to build bigger boats, but at the small village harbor it is impossible to deck them. They demand the construction of a n...
- 1953
Funeral Bororo (1953)
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- 1974
Afghan Women (1974)
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The words of the women and the rhythm of their lives in the seclusion of family compounds suggests both the satisfying and the limiting aspects of a woman's role in a rural Afghan community. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik an...
- 2010
Amanar Tamasheq (2010)
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Amanar Tamasheq parts from the exciting adventure of the director on a trip with the Tuaregs rebels in the desert of Mali, to convert the camera into the most powerful weapon. The terrible history of this people, always under threat, is built through...
- 1911
Banks of the Nile (1911)
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With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. On the bank, b...
- 2019
Hasta que las nubes nos unan, Guardiola - Diola (2019)
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Between Africa and the catalonian Penedés stands the distance of a videocamera. A cut. What is what, where are we, where did the songs we sang while we worked go, where is the group, the colective, the community?...
- 2017
Marquis de Wavrin, from the Manor to the Jungle (2017)
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A documentary that invites us to discover the strange path led by the explorer-ethnographer Marquis de Wavrin who, in the 1920s and 1930s, made ethnographic films in several countries of Latin America....
- 2014
Uma casa, uma vida (2014)
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- 2017
Outro Fogo (2017)
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A sensory record of the relationships of affinity and enmity with fire in the conservation of the Cerrado biome. In the company of local residents hired to act as brigadiers and, more recently, as management agents, the short film explores the affec...
- 2004
Los Monos de los Andes (2004)
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- 1969
Hermógenes Cayo (Imaginero) (1969)
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IMAGINERO is an ethnobiography of Hermogenes Cayo, a self-taught woodcarver and painter who lives on the high Andean plateau of Argentina. The film portrays Hermogenes, his wife Aurelia Kilpe, and their children in their Andean lifestyle, as well as ...