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Africa Avant Garde, Episode 3
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produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in Africa Avant Garde (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2019), 23 mins
Filmmakers, artists and musicians from Africa played a prominent role at some of the world’s most established international cultural celebrations in 2019.
produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in Africa Avant Garde (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2019), 23 mins
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Music of the Mande
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(Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2016), 1 hour 27 mins

Mande Music and Dance: Performed by Mandinka Musicians in Gambia in the late Twentieth Century.

These films, including 18 separate events, made at the beginning of the Super 8 era with a silent camera and separate tape recorder, and at the end, with a sound-sync camera, feature performances by some of The Gambi...

(Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2016), 1 hour 27 mins
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Music of West Africa: The Mandinka and their Neighbors
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(Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2004), 35 mins

This video presents ten historical scenes, captured on 8mm film at a time when portable video had not yet emerged as a viable medium. Eight of the scenes were filmed by Roderic Knight; two were contributed by renowned Gambian expert David Gamble. With the invaluable assistance of Elio Trabal, OC 2004, the footage...

(Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2004), 35 mins
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The Presence of the Past: Madagascar, Music, and Devotion
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directed by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993; produced by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993 (Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2004), 54 mins
People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the powe...
directed by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993; produced by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993 (Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2004), 54 mins
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Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
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directed by David Nadeau-Bernatchez, 1978-, Kiripi Katembo, 1978-2015 and Sammy Baloji, 1978-; produced by David Nadeau-Bernatchez, 1978- and Rosa Spaliviero, 1981-, Twenty Nine Studio & Production and Paysdenvie; performed by Brigade Sarbati Orchestra (Quebec City, QC: Spira, 2020), 1 hour 47 mins
Permeating the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, "Rumba Rules" proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental African music. An essay on the meaning of self and rootedness, the film culminates in a kind of urban polyphony. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Tr...
directed by David Nadeau-Bernatchez, 1978-, Kiripi Katembo, 1978-2015 and Sammy Baloji, 1978-; produced by David Nadeau-Bernatchez, 1978- and Rosa Spaliviero, 1981-, Twenty Nine Studio & Production and Paysdenvie; performed by Brigade Sarbati Orchestra (Quebec City, QC: Spira, 2020), 1 hour 47 mins
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Song From the Forest: Feature Film Version
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directed by Michael Obert, 1966-; produced by Alex Tondowski, fl. 2002 and Ira Tondowski, fl. 2013, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studios, Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion and Tondowski Films & Friends (Los Angeles, CA: First Pond Entertainment, 2015), 1 hour 36 mins
As a young man American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. He followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rainforest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies a tribe of hunters and gatherers. He never left. Today twenty-five years later Louis Sarno has r...
directed by Michael Obert, 1966-; produced by Alex Tondowski, fl. 2002 and Ira Tondowski, fl. 2013, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studios, Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion and Tondowski Films & Friends (Los Angeles, CA: First Pond Entertainment, 2015), 1 hour 36 mins
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