Nkumi, everyday life at Fmovies. Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).
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An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of...
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Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.
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Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the rural environments of six West African countries...
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Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became...
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David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part...
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The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or subtitles,...
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A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.
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A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from...
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Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people
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As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South...
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