Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-5 of 5
- Two westerners go to the tropical forest of West Papua. They live in a tropical forest with the indigenous tribe called ''Mek''. Those people live in huts and don`t wear clothes, but penis gourds. There`s no money and they don`t even know how to use it. The hosts - Mark and Olly try to live in a the way the tribe live - adopting their customs and eating their food which is larvae and palms.
- Kobarweng reconstructs the first encounter between a remote village set in the highlands of the island of New Guinea and the outside world. Mainly told through a native narrative, it reclaims the memory of a colonial past. Switching the roles of observer and observed, it is anthropology-and specifically the desire underlying anthropological representation, that is depicted as an object of curiosity destabilized by the villager's questions. Point of departure was Kaiang Tapior's question "Where is your helicopter?", a remark which puzzled the filmmaker during his visit to the village of Pepera. The question reflected an event which took place in June of 1959, when a crew of scientists, which included anthropologists, dropped down from the sky in helicopters-much to the terrified surprise of the villagers who watched in awe at these things out of the sky, the likes of which they had never seen before - The sudden arrival of helicopters announced a crucial juncture in the history of the village which 'Kobarweng' critically re-stages through an examination and juxtaposition of archival anthropological footage and the villager's testimonies.