Anthropology
OCCUPATION 19682019 Anthropology Cinema Studies Directed by Women Eastern Europe Europe Peace & Conflict Russia Short Films World History An anthology documentary consisting of five short films on the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, each by a different director from the five countries that participated in the occupation. |
CHINESE PORTRAIT2019 Anthropology Asian Studies Art History Cinema Studies Photography Urban Studies
From acclaimed director Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle; So Long, My Son) comes a personal snapshot of contemporary China in all its diversity. Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaus of people and environments, each one more extraordinary than the last.
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HÍBRIDOS, THE SPIRITS OF BRAZIL2019 Anthropology Cultural Studies Cinema Studies Dance Directed by Women Indigenous Studies Latin-American Studies Music Religion & Spirituality
HÍBRIDOS, THE SPIRITS OF BRAZIL is an ethnomusicological journey into the sacred culture of Brazil, from Roman Catholic to Ubanda and candomblé--mixures of African traditions with Catholicism.
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HOW TO RUST2018 African-American Studies Art History Cinema Studies Sensory Ethnography Lab Anthropology Directed by Women
From the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University comes a postindustrial fable told in iron, rocks, and wood. A unique look at Detroit artist Olayami Dabls’ installation “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust”
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INTO THE HINTERLANDS2018 Anthropology Cinema Studies Dance Directed by Women Sensory Ethnography Lab
The Detroit-based performance ensemble, The Hinterlands, practice a form of ecstatic training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown. The “hinterlands” evokes an unknown space both physical and imaginary whose mystery is its very source of generation and from which true creativity emerges. Their practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of one’s body.
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WHIPPING ZOMBIE2018 African Studies Anthropology Dance Music Short Films Cinema Studies In a remote Haitian village there is a dance with slaves and masters: the whipping zombie ritual. To trance-inducing music played by rara bands, men whip and fight until they die and are reborn in the infinite cycle. |
THE MODERN JUNGLE2018 Anthropology Cinema Studies Indigenous Studies Latin-American Studies Media Studies
A genre-bending portrait of globalization, we follow a Mexican Zoque shaman and his encounters with outside forces—from capitalism, to the culture of cinema, and the directors themselves.
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EL MAR LA MARAnthropology Latin-American Studies Chicano Studies 2018
El Mar La Mar is a lyrical and highly topical cinematographic exploration of the Sonoran Desert, and the harrowing stories of the undocumented immigrants that risk crossing it to make it to America.
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GHOSTS OF OUR FORESTAfrican Studies Music Anthropology Indigenous Studies 2017 Dance Environmental Studies Performing Arts Loud Roar Productions
Forcefully removed from their ancestral home by the Ugandan government to protect the endangered gorilla population, the indigenous Batwa people start a music club in hopes to preserve their culture through song and story.
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NEVER FAR FROM HOME2017 American Studies Anthropology Children & Young Adult Loud Roar Productions Short Films
This simple vérité film takes viewers on a journey to the backwoods of Southern Georgia. The kids are never far from home and live, like their grandfathers before them, out in the sticks with traditions routed in nature the forefront of their existences.
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LINEFORKAnthropology American Studies 2017 Music Sensory Ethnography Lab Cinema Studies Aging / Gerontology
Meet Lee and Opal, an elderly couple living in the Appalachian Mountains. Recorded over three years, Linefork is an observational film about marriage, community, resilience, and the raw yet delicate music of an unheralded banjo legend, linked to the past yet immediately present.
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RAT FILM2017 Urban Studies Environmental Studies Political Science Sociology Cultural Studies Cinema Studies Anthropology American Studies Architecture African-American Studies
A documentary that uses the rat to explore the complicated history of Baltimore and how racial segregation, redlining, and environmental racism built the American city we see today.
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