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African Dance: Sand, Drum, and Shostakovich
written by Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970 and Alla Kovgan, 1973-; directed by Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970 and Alla Kovgan, 1973-; produced by Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970 and Alla Kovgan, 1973- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2002), 1 hour 10 mins
This documentary explores African contemporary dance through eight modern dance companies from Africa, Europe and Canada that participated in the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Canada in 1999.
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written by Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970 and Alla Kovgan, 1973-; directed by Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970 and Alla Kovgan, 1973-; produced by Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970 and Alla Kovgan, 1973- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2002), 1 hour 10 mins
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This documentary explores African contemporary dance through eight modern dance companies from Africa, Europe and Canada that participated in the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Canada in 1999. This documentary explores African contemporary dance through eight modern dance companies from Africa, Europe and Canada that participated in the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Canada in 1999. Interviews, includ...
This documentary explores African contemporary dance through eight modern dance companies from Africa, Europe and Canada that participated in the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Canada in 1999. This documentary explores African contemporary dance through eight modern dance companies from Africa, Europe and Canada that participated in the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Canada in 1999. Interviews, including those with dance historians Yacouba Konate and Alponse Tierou, add insight to beautifully-photographed performances. What emerges is a fascinating diversity of contemporary African dance themes and styles. Exploring the interactions between tradition and modernism, the consequences of colonization and urbanization, the self-expression of women through dance, and the roles of masculinity and family relationships, the film is a unique source of information and inspiration for dancers, dance historians, choreographers, critics, as well as those interested in African culture, past and present. "More than ever, as a forum for cross-cultural exchanges, this ninth edition of the Festival showcases African dance because it appears to be undergoing a cultural and artistic renaissance nurtured by the contact and clash between tradition and modernity, and by a reevaluation of its global links." — Festival International de Nouvelle Danse
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Field of Study
Dance
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970, Alla Kovgan, 1973-, Yacouba Konaté, Alphonse Tierou, fl. 1988, Susanne Linke, 1944-, Mathilde Monnier, 1959-, Seydou Boro, 1968-, Vincent Mantsoe, 1971-, Germaine Acogny, 1944-
Author / Creator
Ken Glazebrook, fl. 1970, Alla Kovgan, 1973-
Date Published / Released
2004, 2002
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
African, Movement in performance, Choreographers, Dance theory, Expression in performance, Cultural change and history, Cultural identity, Dance, Ethnography, Africans
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© Documentary Educational Resources
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Aves de Paso (Birds of Passage)
directed by Rachel Lears; produced by Martín Ubillos, fl. 2009 and Rachel Lears, Honeycomb Films (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009), 53 mins
Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. After many years of composing songs that reflect their origins, both decide to...
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directed by Rachel Lears; produced by Martín Ubillos, fl. 2009 and Rachel Lears, Honeycomb Films (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009), 53 mins
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Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. After many years of composing songs that reflect their origins, both decide to explore new horizons and each seeks to fulfill the dream of recording an album.
While Yisela struggles to reconcile the emerging possi...
Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. After many years of composing songs that reflect their origins, both decide to explore new horizons and each seeks to fulfill the dream of recording an album.
While Yisela struggles to reconcile the emerging possibilities of a career in Uruguay with her plans to move to Argentina, Ernesto confronts personal conflicts that threaten to sabotage his creative passion. The film fuses the arts of documentary film and music, interweaving the songs and stories of these two young composers. With striking vérité cinematography and an unforgettable soundtrack, Birds of Passage explores the challenges of being a young artist and the art of searching, inside and outside oneself.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Martín Ubillos, fl. 2009, Rachel Lears, Honeycomb Films
Author / Creator
Rachel Lears
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Musicians, Latin, Brazilian Pop, Pop, Uruguayans
Copyright Message
Copyright © Honeycomb Films 2009
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Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh
directed by Barley Norton; produced by Barley Norton; performed by Dai Lam Linh (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2010), 56 mins
The documentary follows the challenges faced by the groundbreaking and controversial Vietnamese band Dai Lam Linh, while rehearsing and performing in their hometown of Hanoi. It shows how the band came together to create a unique form of popular music, which is both international in outlook and rooted in Vietnames...
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directed by Barley Norton; produced by Barley Norton; performed by Dai Lam Linh (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2010), 56 mins
Description
The documentary follows the challenges faced by the groundbreaking and controversial Vietnamese band Dai Lam Linh, while rehearsing and performing in their hometown of Hanoi. It shows how the band came together to create a unique form of popular music, which is both international in outlook and rooted in Vietnamese traditions and aesthetics. Followed by scandal at every turn for their experimental sound and their use of sexually explicit lyrics,...
The documentary follows the challenges faced by the groundbreaking and controversial Vietnamese band Dai Lam Linh, while rehearsing and performing in their hometown of Hanoi. It shows how the band came together to create a unique form of popular music, which is both international in outlook and rooted in Vietnamese traditions and aesthetics. Followed by scandal at every turn for their experimental sound and their use of sexually explicit lyrics, the band have dared to flout taboos and fight for their creative freedom. Shunned by state-run organizations and disliked by the Vietnamese censors, the band were only able to record their debut album because of support from the Centre Culturel Français de Hanoi. Dai Lam Linh's story of creative, political and financial struggle reveals what it is like to be a contemporary musician in a one-party state where cultural expression is tightly controlled. Dai Lam Linh was established by the male composer, Dai, an ex-soldier who fought in the Second Indochina War (known as the "Vietnam War"), and two female singers, Lam and Linh. The film explores how Dai overcame the trauma of war by writing songs to honor the memory of the war dead and how the singers Lam and Linh embarked on an inner journey to discovery their extraordinary voices. With vivid footage of the band working in the city of Hanoi, the film documents the process of recording Dai Lam Linh's debut album in 2009 and features an album-launch concert in the prestigious Hanoi Opera House.
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Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Dai Lam Linh
Contributor
Barley Norton
Author / Creator
Barley Norton, Dai Lam Linh
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 Barley Norton
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Highlands Trilogy (DER), 1, First Contact
directed by Robin Anderson, 1948-2002 and Bob Connolly, 1945-; produced by Bob Connolly, 1945- and Robin Anderson, 1948-2002, in Highlands Trilogy (DER), 1 (New York, NY: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1983), 1 hour 30 mins
This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over 20 years ago. When Columbus and Cortez ventured into the New World there was no camera to record the drama of this first encounter. But, in 1930, when the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New...
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directed by Robin Anderson, 1948-2002 and Bob Connolly, 1945-; produced by Bob Connolly, 1945- and Robin Anderson, 1948-2002, in Highlands Trilogy (DER), 1 (New York, NY: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1983), 1 hour 30 mins
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This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over 20 years ago. When Columbus and Cortez ventured into the New World there was no camera to record the drama of this first encounter. But, in 1930, when the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New Guinea in search of gold, they carried a movie camera. Thus they captured on film their unexpected confrontation with thousands of Ston...
This is the classic film of cultural confrontation that is as compelling today as when it was first released over 20 years ago. When Columbus and Cortez ventured into the New World there was no camera to record the drama of this first encounter. But, in 1930, when the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New Guinea in search of gold, they carried a movie camera. Thus they captured on film their unexpected confrontation with thousands of Stone Age people who had no concept of human life beyond their valleys. This amazing footage forms the basis of First Contact.Yet there is more to this extraordinary film than the footage that was recovered. Fifty years later some of the participants are still alive and vividly recall their unique experience. The Papuans tell how they thought the white men were their ancestors, bleached by the sun and returned from the dead. They were amazed at the artifacts of 20th century life such as tin cans, phonographs and airplanes. When shown their younger, innocent selves in the found footage, they recall the darker side of their relationship with these mysterious beings with devastating weapons.Australian Dan Leahy describes his fear at being outnumbered by primitive looking people with whom he could not speak. He felt he had to dominate them for his own survival and to continue his quest for gold.First Contact is one of those rare films that holds an audience spellbound. Humor and pathos are combined in this classic story of colonialism, told by the people who were there. Adult College
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bob Connolly, 1945-, Robin Anderson, 1948-2002
Author / Creator
Robin Anderson, 1948-2002, Bob Connolly, 1945-
Date Published / Released
1983
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Highlands Trilogy (DER)
Person Discussed
Michael Leahy, 1901-1979, James Leahy, Daniel Leahy, 1912-1991
Topic / Theme
Cultural adaptation, Anthropology, Cultural change and history, Gold mines and mining, Intercultural communication, Cultural identity, Imperialism, Tribal and national groups, Papua New Guineans
Copyright Message
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Ovahimba Years Project, Keep the Dance Alive
written by Rina Sherman, fl. 2006; directed by Rina Sherman, fl. 2006; produced by Rina Sherman, fl. 2006, in Ovahimba Years Project (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007), 1 hour 15 mins
A unique voyage through the music, dance and spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba people of north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, Keep the Dance Alive features remarkable footage of how dance and spirit possession is integrated into everyday life from infancy to death. The documentary presents a s...
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written by Rina Sherman, fl. 2006; directed by Rina Sherman, fl. 2006; produced by Rina Sherman, fl. 2006, in Ovahimba Years Project (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007), 1 hour 15 mins
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A unique voyage through the music, dance and spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba people of north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, Keep the Dance Alive features remarkable footage of how dance and spirit possession is integrated into everyday life from infancy to death. The documentary presents a singular vision of the Ovahimba people, that of director Rina Sherman who filmed the lives of an Omuhimba family for seven years. A uniq...
A unique voyage through the music, dance and spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba people of north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, Keep the Dance Alive features remarkable footage of how dance and spirit possession is integrated into everyday life from infancy to death. The documentary presents a singular vision of the Ovahimba people, that of director Rina Sherman who filmed the lives of an Omuhimba family for seven years. A unique voyage through the music, dance and spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba people of north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, Keep the Dance Alive features remarkable footage of how dance and spirit possession is integrated into everyday life from infancy to death. The documentary presents a singular vision of the Ovahimba people, that of director Rina Sherman who filmed the lives of an Omuhimba family for seven years. She focuses on how singing, rhythm and voice work together with dance and spirit possession to compose a complete imaginary universe and a dense and complex social structure. Keep the Dance Alive is part of The Ovahimba Years Project, a long-term multi-disciplinary ethnographic study of the Ovahimba and other Otjiherero-language-speaking peoples of northwestern Namibia and southwestern Angola
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Rina Sherman, fl. 2006
Author / Creator
Rina Sherman, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Ovahimba Years Project
Topic / Theme
Himba (Ovaherero, Ovahimba), Women, Dance and dancing, Rural population, Tribal and national groups, Religion, Religious rites and ceremonies, Spiritual possession, Dance, Ethnography, Simba
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Rhythms of Earth: The Choreometrics Films of Alan Lomax & Forrestine Paulay, with audio descriptions
produced by Alan Lomax, 1915-2002 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008), 39 mins
Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and...
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Rhythms of Earth: The Choreometrics Films of Alan Lomax & Forrestine Paulay, with audio descriptions
produced by Alan Lomax, 1915-2002 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008), 39 mins
Description
Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and measured how those variables clustered geographically and in relation to means of subsistence and aspects of social organization.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Alan Lomax, 1915-2002
Author / Creator
Alan Lomax, 1915-2002
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Person Discussed
Forrestine Paulay, Alan Lomax, 1915-2002
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
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Treasure of the Lisu
directed by Yan Chun Su, fl. 2006-2016; produced by Yan Chun Su, fl. 2006-2016, Waterdrop Films (Middlesex County, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2010), 30 mins
Treasure of the Lisu takes us into the world of Ah-Cheng, a master musician and tradition bearer of the Lisu minority people in southwest China. Originating in eastern Tibet, the Lisu people now live among the mountainous Nu (Salween) River canyon, an area caught between the ancient and the modern world. As a ski...
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directed by Yan Chun Su, fl. 2006-2016; produced by Yan Chun Su, fl. 2006-2016, Waterdrop Films (Middlesex County, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2010), 30 mins
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Treasure of the Lisu takes us into the world of Ah-Cheng, a master musician and tradition bearer of the Lisu minority people in southwest China. Originating in eastern Tibet, the Lisu people now live among the mountainous Nu (Salween) River canyon, an area caught between the ancient and the modern world. As a skilled craftsman, Ah-Cheng is the only person in his village who can still make the Chiben, an emblematic four-string lute, which alongsi...
Treasure of the Lisu takes us into the world of Ah-Cheng, a master musician and tradition bearer of the Lisu minority people in southwest China. Originating in eastern Tibet, the Lisu people now live among the mountainous Nu (Salween) River canyon, an area caught between the ancient and the modern world. As a skilled craftsman, Ah-Cheng is the only person in his village who can still make the Chiben, an emblematic four-string lute, which alongside the knife and the crossbow, are the three most important objects to the Lisu People. The British Protestants brought Christianity to the Lisu at the beginning of the 1900s. The Chiben, used widely in traditional religious gatherings, was considered a threat to the newly introduced religion and as a result, was banned from the church system. The Communist revolution from 1967 brought an end to the missionary work. When China exited the repressive cultural revolution era in 1980, Christianity, which had always been practiced by many Lisu people in secrecy, returned to the public and spread even further. As China develops further into the modern world, TV, cell phones, and new ideologies gradually penetrate into the idyllic lives of these mountain people. Being one of the last remaining tradition bearers of the Lisu people in his village, Ah-Cheng holds a vital role in the survival of his ethnic culture. Even though he is illiterate, he is able to keep a clear mind regarding what is important to Lisu cultural identity. Practicing all the essential traditions of the Lisus while still accepting Christianity, Ah-Cheng embodies the human capacity to embrace differences in the face of changes. Through intimate access to the daily life of three generations of Lisu people in Ah-Cheng's family, this documentary shows, with heart-felt compassion and humor, the effect of modernization and its implication on ethnic traditions. Treasure of the Lisu, observational in style with no scripted narration, paints an intimate portrait of one family of an ethnic minority living in modern day China. It presents a world rarely seen by Westerners, a world that seems so faraway yet we will find the unexpected similarities striking. Inspiring a deeper observation, the film provokes viewers to contemplate the value of simple living and traditions that are worth preserving.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Yan Chun Su, fl. 2006-2016, Waterdrop Films
Author / Creator
Yan Chun Su, fl. 2006-2016
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Speaker / Narrator
Ah-Cheng
Person Discussed
Ah-Cheng
Topic / Theme
Musical instruments, Folk music, Traditional, Lisu
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 Yan Chun Su, Waterdrop Films
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