Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls are covered with paintings depicting the different phases of creation. A little further on, in a cave near the village of Bongo, symposium participants are discussing the Tellem, the people who lived in the houses built into the cliffs before the arrival of the Dogon. The archaeological remains and migratory movements of these two peoples are discussed.
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride ...
The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her...
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the ...
For months filmmaker Thierry Knauff lived with the Cameroonian tribe, the Baka. This is his document...
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for...
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...
Estonia's first ethnographic film. Made by Johannes Pääsuke in 1913 on his expedition to Setomaa, th...
The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. ...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...
When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive ...
An ethnographic film by Milovan Gavazzi, the founder of Croatian ethnology. The films displays a pra...
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An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...