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Bit of Black Business, Bloodlines
directed by Jacob Nash, fl. 2007-2007; produced by Kath Shelper, fl. 2000-2016, Scarlett Pictures, Film Depot, New South Wales. Film & Television Office, SBS Independent and Australian Film Commission, in Bit of Black Business (Australia: Flickerfest, 2007), 6 mins
Bloodlines is about finding your heritage in urban Australia. Finding out where your blood runs …
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directed by Jacob Nash, fl. 2007-2007; produced by Kath Shelper, fl. 2000-2016, Scarlett Pictures, Film Depot, New South Wales. Film & Television Office, SBS Independent and Australian Film Commission, in Bit of Black Business (Australia: Flickerfest, 2007), 6 mins
Description
Bloodlines is about finding your heritage in urban Australia. Finding out where your blood runs …
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Kath Shelper, fl. 2000-2016, Scarlett Pictures, Film Depot, New South Wales. Film & Television Office, SBS Independent, Australian Film Commission
Author / Creator
Jacob Nash, fl. 2007-2007
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Flickerfest
Series
Bit of Black Business
Topic / Theme
Family separation, Children, Mothers, Memories, Communication, Stolen Generations, Australia, 1909-1969
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 Jacob Nash
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Bit of Black Business, Hush
directed by Dena Curtis, fl. 2006-2017; produced by Kath Shelper, fl. 2000-2016, Scarlett Pictures, Film Depot, New South Wales. Film & Television Office, SBS Independent and Australian Film Commission, in Bit of Black Business (Australia: Flickerfest, 2007), 6 mins
Ethel and her friend Mary resort to an unlikely occupation at night to top up their pensions. Ethel's daughter is horrified when she discovers they are not really "playing cards".
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directed by Dena Curtis, fl. 2006-2017; produced by Kath Shelper, fl. 2000-2016, Scarlett Pictures, Film Depot, New South Wales. Film & Television Office, SBS Independent and Australian Film Commission, in Bit of Black Business (Australia: Flickerfest, 2007), 6 mins
Description
Ethel and her friend Mary resort to an unlikely occupation at night to top up their pensions. Ethel's daughter is horrified when she discovers they are not really "playing cards".
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Kath Shelper, fl. 2000-2016, Scarlett Pictures, Film Depot, New South Wales. Film & Television Office, SBS Independent, Australian Film Commission
Author / Creator
Dena Curtis, fl. 2006-2017
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Flickerfest
Series
Bit of Black Business
Topic / Theme
Senior citizens, Personal independence, Daughters, Mothers, Telephones, Sex industry
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 Dena Curtis
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Daughter from Danang
directed by Vicente Franco, fl. 1990 and Gail Dolgin, 1945-2010; produced by Gail Dolgin, 1945-2010, Interfaze Educational Productions (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2002), 1 hour 21 mins
A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial "all-American girl", hailing from small town Pulaski, Tenn. But her birth na...
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directed by Vicente Franco, fl. 1990 and Gail Dolgin, 1945-2010; produced by Gail Dolgin, 1945-2010, Interfaze Educational Productions (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2002), 1 hour 21 mins
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A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial "all-American girl", hailing from small town Pulaski, Tenn. But her birth name was Mai Thi Hiep. Born in Danang, Vietnam in 1968, she's the mixed-race daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. F...
A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial "all-American girl", hailing from small town Pulaski, Tenn. But her birth name was Mai Thi Hiep. Born in Danang, Vietnam in 1968, she's the mixed-race daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. Fearing for her daughter's safety at the war's end, Hiep's mother sent her to the U.S. on Operation Babylift, a Ford administration plan to relocate orphans and mixed-race children to the U.S. for adoption before they fell victim to a frighteningly uncertain future in Vietnam after the Americans pulled out. Kim believed her daughter would be in danger in Vietnam. "What I heard really worried me," Kim says. "If you had worked for Americans and had racially mixed children, they said those kids would be gathered up, they would be soaked in gasoline and burnt." The parting was devastating to both mother and child, who would know nothing about each other for 22 years. Now, as if by a miracle, they are reunited in Danang. But what seems like the cue for a happy ending is anything but. Heidi and her Vietnamese relatives find themselves caught in a confusing clash of cultures and at the mercy of conflicting emotions that will change their lives forever. Through intimate and sometimes excruciating moments, Daughter from Danang profoundly shows how wide the chasms of cultural difference and how deep the wounds of war can run — even within one family. At its core, filmmakers Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco have created a thought-provoking film about identity, family and culture: What shapes our sense of self? What defines our concept of family? And how do cultural expectations influence our choices? Since the film takes places against the backdrop of the Vietnam War it reveals how the trauma inflicted by that conflict continues to haunt and harm those who survived it.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Gail Dolgin, 1945-2010, Interfaze Educational Productions
Author / Creator
Vicente Franco, fl. 1990, Gail Dolgin, 1945-2010
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Reunions, Children's absence, Family separation, Adopted children, Cultural identity, Absentee mothers, Americans, Vietnamese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002 Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc.
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Empty
directed by Jackie Traverse, fl. 2008; produced by Crossing Communities Art Project and National Film Board of Canada (Winnipeg, MB: Winnipeg Film Group, 2009), 5 mins
Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter’s tribute to her estranged mother.
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directed by Jackie Traverse, fl. 2008; produced by Crossing Communities Art Project and National Film Board of Canada (Winnipeg, MB: Winnipeg Film Group, 2009), 5 mins
Description
Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter’s tribute to her estranged mother.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Animation
Contributor
Crossing Communities Art Project, National Film Board of Canada
Author / Creator
Jackie Traverse, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Winnipeg Film Group
Topic / Theme
Alcoholism, Death, Daughters, Mothers
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 Winnipeg Film Group and Andrew George
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Manhattan, Kansas
written by Tara Wray, 1951-; directed by Tara Wray, 1951-; produced by Tara Wray, 1951-, Alan Oxman, fl. 1995-2017 and Michel Negroponte (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 1 hour 19 mins
In her first film, Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie's psychotic breakdown five years earlier.
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written by Tara Wray, 1951-; directed by Tara Wray, 1951-; produced by Tara Wray, 1951-, Alan Oxman, fl. 1995-2017 and Michel Negroponte (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 1 hour 19 mins
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In her first film, Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie's psychotic breakdown five years earlier. The parent-child relationship is emotionally charged from the moment a person is born. But it becomes especially complex when your single parent is mentally unstable, as is the case for filmmaker Tara Wray. In her first film, Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconne...
In her first film, Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie's psychotic breakdown five years earlier. The parent-child relationship is emotionally charged from the moment a person is born. But it becomes especially complex when your single parent is mentally unstable, as is the case for filmmaker Tara Wray. In her first film, Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie's psychotic breakdown five years earlier. She finds a parent still chasing her demons, both real and imagined, struggling to make a career for herself as an abstract artist and searching for the Geodetic Center of the United States, the finding of which, Evie says, will bring about world peace. When Tara takes it upon herself to help in her mother's search, it sets into motion a surprising chain of events that may just rescue Evie from a catastrophic fate and help Tara reconcile with her mother on different terms.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Tara Wray, 1951-, Evie Wray, Alan Oxman, fl. 1995-2017, Michel Negroponte
Author / Creator
Tara Wray, 1951-
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
American, Daughters, Single mothers, Mental illnesses, Childhood, Parent-child relations, Ethnography, Americans
Copyright Message
© Documentary Educational Resources
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'The mother smeared over with white clay', figure 31
in Rattray, Robert Sutherland, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts; photographed by Robert Sutherland Rattray, 1881-1938 (1900) , 2 page(s)
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in Rattray, Robert Sutherland, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts; photographed by Robert Sutherland Rattray, 1881-1938 (1900) , 2 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
1900
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Photograph
Contributor
Robert Sutherland Rattray, 1881-1938
Author / Creator
Robert Sutherland Rattray, 1881-1938
Topic / Theme
Mothers, Children, Ashanti
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My Mother's Home, Lagoon
written by Mehrdad Oskooee; directed by Mehrdad Oskooee; produced by Mehrdad Oskooee and Toufan Nahanghodrati, fl. 2001, European Union. MEDIA Programme (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 30 mins
Like Kurosawa's Woman in the Dunes, 67-year-old Kobra battles the elements on a lagoon in Iran to eke out a living for herself and her 100-year-old invalid mother. Even on New Year's day she is out in her rowboat before dawn, dropping and hauling her nets for the modest catch. She must argue fiercely with the men...
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written by Mehrdad Oskooee; directed by Mehrdad Oskooee; produced by Mehrdad Oskooee and Toufan Nahanghodrati, fl. 2001, European Union. MEDIA Programme (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2001), 30 mins
Description
Like Kurosawa's Woman in the Dunes, 67-year-old Kobra battles the elements on a lagoon in Iran to eke out a living for herself and her 100-year-old invalid mother. Even on New Year's day she is out in her rowboat before dawn, dropping and hauling her nets for the modest catch. She must argue fiercely with the men in the marketplace for a fair price, and physically battle fishermen on the water who claim the territory where her nets are placed. In...
Like Kurosawa's Woman in the Dunes, 67-year-old Kobra battles the elements on a lagoon in Iran to eke out a living for herself and her 100-year-old invalid mother. Even on New Year's day she is out in her rowboat before dawn, dropping and hauling her nets for the modest catch. She must argue fiercely with the men in the marketplace for a fair price, and physically battle fishermen on the water who claim the territory where her nets are placed. In an unforgettable scene the men tear her nets and scuffle with her on the deck until she falls into the water. Mother and daughter live together in a weather-beaten cottage on the edge of the lagoon. Pictures of their deceased loved ones surround them. The Koran, the voice of the mullahs on the radio, and their love for one another sustain them. With simplicity and honesty, this documentary makes a universal statement of the harsh realities many women face, and the strength that sustains them. College Adult
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mehrdad Oskooee, Kobra Nabinya, 1934-, Toufan Nahanghodrati, fl. 2001, European Union. MEDIA Programme
Author / Creator
Mehrdad Oskooee
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Person Discussed
Kobra Nabinya, 1934-
Topic / Theme
Iranian, New Year's Day, Gender roles, Daughters, Mothers, Fisheries, Ethnography, Iranians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2001. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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New Black, The Farm
directed by Romaine Moreton, fl. 1996-2012; produced by John Harvey, fl. 2009, in New Black (Australia: Flickerfest, 2009), 11 mins
A young girl named Olivia longs to know the people who came before her, prompting landscape imbued with mystery and treasure, urging her mother Lauren to confront her own beliefs when faced with living histories woven throughout the countryside.
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directed by Romaine Moreton, fl. 1996-2012; produced by John Harvey, fl. 2009, in New Black (Australia: Flickerfest, 2009), 11 mins
Description
A young girl named Olivia longs to know the people who came before her, prompting landscape imbued with mystery and treasure, urging her mother Lauren to confront her own beliefs when faced with living histories woven throughout the countryside.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
John Harvey, fl. 2009
Author / Creator
Romaine Moreton, fl. 1996-2012
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Flickerfest
Series
New Black
Topic / Theme
Family relationships, Agrarian life, Daughters, Mothers, Australian Aborigines
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 Romaine Moreton
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