Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, India's most holy city. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, subtitles or dialogue. It is an attempt to give the viewer a wholly authentic, though greatly magnified and concentrated, sense of participation in the experiences examined by the film.
Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people ...
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the ...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Nige...
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée...
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo ...
In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then t...
In Isère, in the mountainous region of Trièves, is the Tournesol farm, an experiential farm totally ...
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
For months filmmaker Thierry Knauff lived with the Cameroonian tribe, the Baka. This is his document...
Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing question...
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at ...
An ethnographic documentary about the Mangbetu tribe of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republ...
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, a...
A collage of daily life in Aq Kupruk builds from the single voice that calls the townspeople to pray...
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride ...
Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about the...