{"title":"Chidra","authors":"A. Moran, Nadav Harel","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3762","url":null,"abstract":"In the mountainous interior of the Himalaya, a highland peasant transforms into a redeemer by cutting holes (chidra) in the social fabric to be delivered to the gods through his body as sacrificial victim. Closely observing this unique ritual-spectacle, CHIDRA. examines how men, gods, and mediums handle the dangerous substance of actions (karma) at the frontier of the Hindu cultural sphere.CHIDRA (2018) is the product of a collaboration between documentary filmmaker Nadav Harel and Himalayan specialist Arik Moran. The movie follows a transmuted human sacrifice ritual that is unique to the Indo-Tibetan frontier valley of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, India. By steadily focusing on the expiatory methods that are enacted during this ritual-spectacle, CHIDRA explores the psychological and social constructs surrounding the communal cleansing of sin at the frontier of the Hindu cultural zone. For a detailed analysis of the ritual, see Moran (2018), The Invisible Path of Karma in a Himalayan Purificatory Rite. On the charter myth and probable origins of the ritual specialists, see Moran (2021), When the Nars descended from Heaven.","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fish On!","authors":"Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3856","url":null,"abstract":"The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story has implications for any number of river ecosystems and indigenous peoples around the world. Through the Indian tribes of the Lower Klamath, the film reminds us how the health of a people and the health of its lands are integrally linked.","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"346 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vincent and the Rainforest","authors":"R. Scott, E. Hviding","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i02.4017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i02.4017","url":null,"abstract":"The film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The film begins with a conversation at Vincent's home followed by a travel to the rainforest, where Vincent shows his knowledge regarding the use of plants and trees. The conversation gives insight into Vincent's \"local\" perspective on the issues of an outside world through descriptions of his career of cooperation and conflict with foreign actors (including Asian logging companies, Australian mining companies, and international environmental organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature). It also gives insight into the vast knowledge of the rainforest held by individuals like Vincent.","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"199 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curupira","authors":"Pedro Figueiredo Neto","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3927","url":null,"abstract":"“Curupira” was shot along the Javari Valley, the border region of Peru and Brazil. The story follows Arturo, a local riverine, as he paddles through the darkness in pursuit of the elusive Curupira — a mythological creature deeply ingrained in the region's folklore. Throughout the film, Arturo unveils Curupira's ambiguous nature and its crucial role in managing the relationship between humans and the fauna and flora. As the narrative progresses, we are offered a glimpse into Arturo's childhood, we learn about the transformation of the forest into maize plantations and aviaries, and the cunning exploitation of the Curupira myth by loggers and hunters to justify and legitimise extraction. This film is a compelling account of the intricate relationship between culture and ecology in the Amazon region, how environmental transformation is rendered intelligible, and provide fresh insights into how myths can be co-opted, not least (re)created into new syntheses. This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2021.03558.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0002).","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139242333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brick Mule","authors":"Michael Brown","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i02.3815","url":null,"abstract":"This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal's working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valley and portering goods into the high Himalayas. Stunning cinematography and a crafted soundscape paint a moving portrait of Nepal's brick mules and the people who make their living with them. Honest, but non-judgemental, the film gives a unique insight into hardship of life for people and equines alike. Yet underlying questions about humanity and our relationship with animals underpin the film. This film formed part of a community project using Paulo Freire’s ‘critical consciousness’ (Freire, 1978) theory, involving self-reflection and transformation, leading to changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that ultimately improved equine wellbeing. The theoretical underpinnings and project outcomes can be further explored through an open access paper published in Visual Studies journal.","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"5 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139242932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Things Go","authors":"Baptiste Aubert","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3816","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid-60s, in the small Belgian town of Verviers, most of the textile factories that had contributed to the town’s prosperity closed down. On witnessing the end of an epoch, the town council decided to put together a collection of old textile machines that is now stored in an old industrial shed. The film portrays a group of retired men spending their free time repairing the machines and creating a Lieu de mémoire where they relive their former professional activity. \u0000Imitating their passion, I created my own collection of former industrial objects. By buying old weaving shuttles from flea market sellers that wanted to get rid of them, I sought to give a sense of the fragile collective memory of the city inhabitants where memories compete with oblivion. \u0000Like the warp and weft of a fabric, these two filmic materials weave together to form the film Where Things Go—a film that questions the attachment we have to things, to memory, and to the past.","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125545400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heart of the Country","authors":"Len Kamerling","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3725","url":null,"abstract":"How can we create a world that will offer our children wisdom, humanity, responsibility and hope? Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural village school in Hokkaido, Japan, passionately believes he knows the way - by giving children a moral compass to guide their lives, by educating their hearts as wells as their minds. Heart of the Country takes time - a full calendar year, to follow the life of this extraordinary man and the families and children he has dedicated himself to. It is also the story of the village of Kanayama, a rural farming community bound together by love for its children and a deep respect for learning. Parents, elders and leaders of this once impoverished town have been tempered by the long journey through the cultural upheaval of postwar Japan. They embrace Principal Yasutomo’s vision of hope for the future, but not without wary glances back to the past.\u0000Produced in collaboration with the community of Kanayama, Hokkaido and the Hokkaido University of Education Japan.","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128912103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tuo Dolphins","authors":"R. Scott, P. Crawford","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3820","url":null,"abstract":"Tuo Dolphins takes place in both Aarhus, Denmark and in the Reef islands, the Solomon Islands. Moffat Bonunga, visits the Danish anthropologists Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford in Aarhus to help them with their work on the film project. This included talking about a special event when dolphins ran ashore at Tuo village. The people of Tuo have a mythical relationship with dolphins, covered by a traditional so-called kastom story, the incident confirming the fascinating relationship between the dolphins landing on the beach and the kinship relationships. The phenomenon had allegedly been triggered when a member of a specific family line, Pelewe, passed away a few weeks before. The villagers decided to re-enact part of their Dolphin story to capture it on film, thereby using the film, and its crew, to both present and confirm the truthfulness of the legend and myth. ","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115361450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oak Tree, Gum Tree","authors":"C. Gough-Brady, Christina Rogers","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3797","url":null,"abstract":"In Oak Tree, gum tree, a collaborative video work by award-winning filmmakers Catherine Gough-Brady and Christine Rogers, explores the way that audio-visual material can “embrace the complexity of the world” and “incorporate, within their structures and production processes, multiple voices that “utter” together in the creation of content” (Aston and Odorico, 2018, p. 63). Aston and Odorico use this polyphonic approach as a way of exploring relationships between documentary works and audience. Gough-Brady and Rogers are interested in seeing how this approach can be applied between filmmakers and images themselves. Can images be ascribed what Bennett calls ‘vibrancy’ (2010) and have agency in how they are cut together? How much of this becomes an expression of the filmmaker through the images?\u0000This work was selected for exhibition at the International Visual Sociology Association conference in 2022.\u0000Works cited\u0000Aston, J and Odorico, S. (2018). The Poetics and Politics of Polyphony: Towards a Research Method for Interactive Documentary, Aphaville issue 15, Summer","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133761431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tributary","authors":"James Davoll","doi":"10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v7i01.3798","url":null,"abstract":"Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives.\u0000Tributary explores covert, 'black-boxed' data centres (remote and highly secure sites) by tracking water and geothermal sources to the infrastructure required to power and house these physical locations of intensive computational processing.\u0000Created from a combination of traditional and experimental field recording techniques made within Iceland and the UK, Tributary aims to problematise the notion of 'green' data centres. It showcases the intensive energy requirements required to prop up the digital infrastructure of contemporary life. These include cryptocurrency mining, cloud storage, digital image production and media streaming. ","PeriodicalId":179193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Films","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130076924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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