Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest epi...
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
A documentary about the daily life of a native Tzotzil community in southern Mexico, shot over a per...
Report retracing the military campaigns of the Belgian colonial troops in Africa through geographica...
"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressio...
This documentary looks at the stories of a few people in Aspen Colorado and how they contribute to t...
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a ...
A man performs the same ritual every day: he cleans his shoes, dresses up in his shiny blue suit, we...
Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the ...
The darkness of the mine, invaded by the miners' light, by the noisy machines and the permanent and ...
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his fathe...
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men...
This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song o...
The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the har...
A visual travel diary on the expedition led by Brondeel in 1934. This expedition to Belgian Congo, b...
As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip ...