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"Film shots and sound recordings over the course of one month in a remote mountain village in Liguria. I do not work with the illusion of the synchronisation of image and sound, but with the idea that these 2 dimensions
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"Film shots and sound recordings over the course of one month in a remote mountain village in Liguria. I do not work with the illusion of the synchronisation of image and sound, but with the idea that these 2 dimensions
"THE WEST VILLAGE MEAT MARKET is an autodidactic debut film documenting a New York neighborhood, a meat market, which combines documentary and metaphorical overtones, as well as exploring certain aspects of the medium of
“Villages” is a short film that reflects on what it means to forget. It deals with themes of abandonment, memory, and a life left behind, seen through the eyes of Siobhán — a woman who chose to stay when all else had gon
The story of Jonah is the story of each of us who have somewhere along the life's path lost desire the magic for creating and solving the seemingly impossible things and situations, which give the meaning to our own exis
Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. In 1978
Puni has loved villages since childhood. To her, villages have everything—food resources and beautiful nature. Yet the people who live there cannot always enjoy that wealth. Whenever Puni visits villages in other countri
A Burmah-Shell–sponsored “Life in India” documentary, directed by Fali Billimoria, portraying a Travancore fishing family’s work and home life, with attention to everyday labor, household economy, and generational change
A short documentary about the tradition of making lacquer baskets in Longshui Village. Longshui's lacquer basket making technique was included in the third group of intangible cultural heritage protection lists in Fujian
Khmer horror film.
There's an enchanting folkloric quality to this eclair newsreel showing a remote Essex village ravaged by fire.
The eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is the last island in the Malay archipelago where the majority of the people still follow their ancestral religion, called marapu. This film, shot in 1986, focuses on a challenge to
In deep Hengduan Mountain Range, western Yunnan of China, there hides a special village which is not known by people outside. All the villagers inhabited here are children between 6 and 14. They live in the village all y
In a landscape of shifting sands, a community enclosed into grids with no name, rehearses its music in villages like 1 PB, a dot at the Indian side of the India-Pakistan border. Mirs are the custodians and practitioners
The author Rain Maran introduces us to the national symbol of the country, the village swallow, as well as to the urban swallow and the coastal swallow, or shorebird. The music for the film was written by Urmas Sizask.
The film explores the thoughts of those who remain in the village, their journey from rural poverty, seemingly endless, from generation to generation. Ambitious people push forward, but every step of the journey seems to