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Fashioning Faith
directed by Yasmin Moll, fl. 2009; produced by New York University (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009), 23 mins
When most Americans think of the Islamic veil, the image of Afghan women in blue burkas or the black chador of the Islamic Republic of Iran may come to mind. But what about the Muslim-American woman who easily combines her headscarf with jeans or haute couture gowns? Fashioning Faith takes a behind the scenes look...
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directed by Yasmin Moll, fl. 2009; produced by New York University (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009), 23 mins
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When most Americans think of the Islamic veil, the image of Afghan women in blue burkas or the black chador of the Islamic Republic of Iran may come to mind. But what about the Muslim-American woman who easily combines her headscarf with jeans or haute couture gowns? Fashioning Faith takes a behind the scenes look at the emerging world of Islamic fashion and US-based clothing designers who make it possible. The film interweaves interviews and ver...
When most Americans think of the Islamic veil, the image of Afghan women in blue burkas or the black chador of the Islamic Republic of Iran may come to mind. But what about the Muslim-American woman who easily combines her headscarf with jeans or haute couture gowns? Fashioning Faith takes a behind the scenes look at the emerging world of Islamic fashion and US-based clothing designers who make it possible. The film interweaves interviews and verité footage from a diverse array of Muslim women with one goal in common – to express their faith through fashion. Nzinga Knight is a young Brooklynite who has won fashion accolades for her modest evening dresses – a first for the Islamic style market in America. Jenneh Williams has been in the Islamic retail business for decades, recently opening up her own boutique in Queens that caters to the growing number of black converts to Islam. Sabrina Enayatulla is a blogger fashionista with a mission – to change negative stereotypes of Islam through stylish creations. Brooke Samad hopes that her pious clothing collection will hit home with young professional Muslims looking for new alternatives to traditional garb, while the designers of the Eva Khurshid label seek to attract all Americans — regardless of creed — to their stylish clothing by making modesty the new mainstream. Through these women's stories, Fashioning Faith takes viewers on a colorful exploration of a world where fashion and faith fuse with often surprising results.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
New York University
Author / Creator
Yasmin Moll, fl. 2009
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Women's wear, Tunics, Dresses, Hijabs, Muslim
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Copyright © Yasmin Moll 2009
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Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart
directed by Robert Lemelson, fl. 1999-2016; produced by Alessandra Pasquino, 1961- and Robert Lemelson, fl. 1999-2016, Elemental Productions (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2012), 16 mins
The Balinese cremation ceremony, or ngaben, has primarily been known in the West as either a major tourist attraction that dazzles visitors with the splendor, intricacy, and drama of its performance, or as fodder for long-standing anthropological arguments about personhood and emotion on the island that debated w...
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directed by Robert Lemelson, fl. 1999-2016; produced by Alessandra Pasquino, 1961- and Robert Lemelson, fl. 1999-2016, Elemental Productions (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2012), 16 mins
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The Balinese cremation ceremony, or ngaben, has primarily been known in the West as either a major tourist attraction that dazzles visitors with the splendor, intricacy, and drama of its performance, or as fodder for long-standing anthropological arguments about personhood and emotion on the island that debated whether or not Balinese people expressed, or even experienced, grief. According to Balinese Hindu beliefs, cremation is one of the most...
The Balinese cremation ceremony, or ngaben, has primarily been known in the West as either a major tourist attraction that dazzles visitors with the splendor, intricacy, and drama of its performance, or as fodder for long-standing anthropological arguments about personhood and emotion on the island that debated whether or not Balinese people expressed, or even experienced, grief. According to Balinese Hindu beliefs, cremation is one of the most important steps in a person's spiritual life, and a heavy responsibility to the family, because it is through cremation that the physical body is returned to its five constituent elements and the soul is cleansed and released from the body to ascend to heaven and be reincarnated. Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart takes an impressionistic look at the ngaben from the perspective of a mourning son, Nyoman Asub, and reveals the intimacy, sadness, and tenderness at the core of this funerary ritual and the feeling and force that underlie an exquisite cultural tradition. Amidst ample cultural and interpretive understandings of the cremation ceremony, the film purposefully provides a personalistic, impressionistic, and poetic glimpse of the process and the complex emotions involved.
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Field of Study
Religion & Thought
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Alessandra Pasquino, 1961-, Robert Lemelson, fl. 1999-2016, Elemental Productions
Author / Creator
Robert Lemelson, fl. 1999-2016
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Hindu
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Copyright © 2012 Elemental Productions
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The Poojari's Daughter
directed by Gillian Goslinga-Roy, fl. 1996; produced by Gillian Goslinga-Roy, fl. 1996 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2010), 1 hour 6 mins
The Poojari's Daughter opens with flashbacks of the South Indian priestess Rajathiammal 'cutting the goat' and ritually having her head tonsured. The year is 2001; the place Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Both these moments fulfill the priestess' deepest desires: to have herself filmed performing the annual goat sacrifice...
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directed by Gillian Goslinga-Roy, fl. 1996; produced by Gillian Goslinga-Roy, fl. 1996 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2010), 1 hour 6 mins
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The Poojari's Daughter opens with flashbacks of the South Indian priestess Rajathiammal 'cutting the goat' and ritually having her head tonsured. The year is 2001; the place Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Both these moments fulfill the priestess' deepest desires: to have herself filmed performing the annual goat sacrifice to the Saivite God Paandi that her famous priest father once carried out, and to renounce her family life altogether. Using experimenta...
The Poojari's Daughter opens with flashbacks of the South Indian priestess Rajathiammal 'cutting the goat' and ritually having her head tonsured. The year is 2001; the place Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Both these moments fulfill the priestess' deepest desires: to have herself filmed performing the annual goat sacrifice to the Saivite God Paandi that her famous priest father once carried out, and to renounce her family life altogether. Using experimental film techniques that recall the work of Trinh Minh Ha, The Poojari's Daughter weaves dramatic footage of these rituals and temple life at Paandi Kooyil with Rajathiammal's moving narration of her process, interviews with close family, and brief narrations by the filmmaker. Together, these create a vivid and unforgettably intimate portrait of the devotional worlds of this remarkable woman and South Indian Hinduism.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Gillian Goslinga-Roy, fl. 1996
Author / Creator
Gillian Goslinga-Roy, fl. 1996
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Religious beliefs, Women, Priests, Hindu, Hindi, Tamil
Copyright Message
Copyright © Gillian Goslinga 2010
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Return to the Land of Souls
directed by Jordi Esteva, 1951-; produced by Centre National des Arts et de la Culture. Côte d'Ivoire, Siwa Productions and TV3 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2016), 1 hour 11 mins
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In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Côte d'Ivoire, some Akan communities still make contact with the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Je...
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directed by Jordi Esteva, 1951-; produced by Centre National des Arts et de la Culture. Côte d'Ivoire, Siwa Productions and TV3 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2016), 1 hour 11 mins
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In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Côte d'Ivoire, some Akan communities still make contact with the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Jean Marie Addiaffi (1941-1999), a writer and intellectual from Ivory Coast, fought to conserve the Akans' oral literature, myths and leg...
In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Côte d'Ivoire, some Akan communities still make contact with the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Jean Marie Addiaffi (1941-1999), a writer and intellectual from Ivory Coast, fought to conserve the Akans' oral literature, myths and legends, and the knowledge and uses of the plants. In Return to the Land of Souls, Yéo Douley, a disciple of Jean Marie Addiaffi, will set out on a journey to visit his master's grave and carry out a ritual libation. On his travel, he will attend the initiation rites of three people chosen by the spirits and witness one of them proclaimed as the new Komian, or high animistic priest.
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Field of Study
Religion & Thought
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Centre National des Arts et de la Culture. Côte d'Ivoire, Siwa Productions, TV3
Author / Creator
Jordi Esteva, 1951-
Date Published / Released
2010, 2016
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Spiritual leaders, Animism, Akan, Ivorians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2016 Documentary Educational Resources
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