Movies: Ethnographical
- 1899
Danseuses cambodgiennes du roi Norodom, II (1899)
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- 1964
Kwaheri (1964)
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Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene....
- 1899
Moulin à homme pour l'arrosage des rizières (1899)
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A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field....
- 1899
Japonaise faisant sa toilette (1899)
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A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her....
- 1901
Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip (1901)
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“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In the background will be seen one of their "Topeks," a sealskin tent in which they live during their short s...
- 1901
Esquimaux Village (1901)
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“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are enacted just as they take place in the far away frozen North. In this subject we depict a large number of ...
- 2006
Melodies of the mountains (2006)
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Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people...
- 1947
Without Prejudice (1947)
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The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler who studied the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania....
- 1897
Barrage du Nil (1897)
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Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile....
- 1957
Journey Beyond Three Seas (1957)
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This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are pop...
- 2017
Ghostland: The View of the Ju'Hoansi (2017)
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Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient cultures on our planet is undergoing a major change. The Ju/Hoansi Bushmen in Namibia are not allowed to hunt anymore and need to converge with our so ...
- 1986
La máscara de la conquista (1986)
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The film tells two parallel stories. One, set in the present, tells of a pagent about the conquest of America, while the other, set in the 15th century, tells of a group of conquistadors coming ashore searching for gold. The film takes place in an un...
- 2014
Divoké kmeny Etiopie (2014)
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- 1918
Japan in Feast (1918)
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An actuality film showing a Buddhist festival in Kyoto. The procession includes Buddhist monks, geishas, and others dressed coordinately to the Japanese tradition....
- 1973
The Sannikov Land (1973)
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A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences....
- 1911
Banks of the Nile (1911)
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With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and pulley system cows climb skywards then disappear into the hold of the sailing vessel. On the bank, b...
- 2010
Untitled (2010)
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A revealing one-shot portrait of two Nepali newlyweds in a moment of rest and playful interaction, Stephanie Spray's Untitled challenges our perception of two themes at the very core of ethnographic filmmaking: human relationships and the ways in whi...
- 2023
Lotoko (2023)
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Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK)....
- 1957
The Hunters (1957)
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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 Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expediti...
- 1991
Broken Youth (1991)
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Two parallel stories about unhappy marriages that take place during inter-war period in the Banat village within Romanian ethnic minority in Serbia....