freiburger film forum 1997

freiburger film forum 1997 offered the opportunity to see films from and about Africa, America, Asia and Oceania and to discuss them with the following filmmakers present at Freiburg:

Luc de Heusch, Don Edkins, Sebastian Eschenbach, Michael Najar, Nicolás Echevarría, Juan Francisco Urrusti, Ian Dunlop, Janos Tari, Ingrid Kummels, Manfred Schäfer, Gerd Roscher, Mietsja Postma, Markus Banks, Thierry Michel, Christine Pireaux, Jouko Aaltonen, Frances Calvert, Jens Meurer, Marie-Clemence Paes

Topics:

• Hommage to Luc de Heusch: For more than 40 years the Belgian anthropologist and filmmaker has been filming ethnographic documantaries in Africa (Zaire, Rwuanda) and Belgium
• Southern Africa: A region in upheaval: Return of the refugees and expellees to their land, the dealing of South Africa with the past; community based video projects
• Mexico: the cinematic eye of mexican filmmakers and anthropologists on their own realities and myths.
• Portraits: the portrait as genre within the ethnografic documentary. Different forms of approach to the filmed persons.
• Visual Anthropology and new technologies: Long term projects, films as collection of ethnographic data.
• And other new documantaries from Africa, America, Asia, Oceania and Europe.

Program:

Hommage to Luc de Heusch:
• RUANDA, Belgium1956, 16mm, 45 min
• GESTES DU REPAS, Belgium 1958, 35mm, 23 min
• LES AMIS DU PLAISIR, Belgium 1958, 35mm, 27 min
• LES AMIS DU PLAISIR 30 ANS APRES, Belgium 1995, 35mm, 60 min
• SUR LES TRACES DU RENARD PÂLE, Belgium 1984, 16mm, 48 min
• UNE REPUBLIQUE DEVENUE FOLLE, Belgium 1996, beta, 73 min

Southern Africa
• Mozambique: THE TREE OF OUR FOREFATHERS by Licinio Azevedo, UK 1994
• Namibia: THE BROKEN STRING by Don Edkins, South Africa 1996
   
  South Africa:
• MY SOUTH AFRICAN HOME MOVIE by Jens Meurer, Germany 1996
• GHETTO DIARIES, Mail & Guardian Television, 1996/97
• PEOPLE JUST LIKE US 1997

Mexico
by Nicolás Echevarría:
• TESHUINADA - SEMANA SANTA TARAHUMARA 1979
• POETAS CAMPESINOS 1980
• NINO FIDENCIO, TAUMATURGO DE ESPINAZO 1981

Films by Juan Francisco Urrusti

• MARA 'ACAME - CANTADOR Y CURANDERO 1982
• TEPU 1994/95
• EL PUEBLO MEXICANO QUE CAMINA 1996

Films by and about the Tarahumaras/Rarámuri
• IM SPIEGEL DES SCHAMANEN, Ingrid Kummels, Manfred Schäfer, D 1989
• ALMA EN VUELO, Antonio Noyola, Mexico 1992
• RITUAL DER SCHWARZEN SONNE, Gerd Roscher, D 1997
• A SKIRT FULL OF BUTTERFLIES, Ellen Osborne & Maureen Gosling, USA 1993
• VIAJES - UN DIA Y UNA NOCHE POR LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO, Sarah Minter, Mexiko 1996

Portraits
• Indonesian novellist: JALAN RAYA POS by Bernie Ijdis, NL 1996
• MOI, UNE FILLE COMME LES AUTRES by Cheeng Savanna, Cambodge 1995
• Maroc: MOULAY HASSAN; AISSAOUI by Francois-Xavier Noulens, France 1995
• BALKAN PORTRAITS, Adviser : Asen Balikci, Bulgaria 1995
• KAR O KAR (Work and Work), Fuad Afrawi, Iran 1996
• EL ABUELO CHENO Y OTRAS HISTORIAS, Juan Carlos Rulfo, Mexico 1995

Visual Anthropology and new Technologies
Ian Dunlop (Australia), Marcus Banks (UK, Curator of the "Haddon-Project) and Janos Tari (Hungary) presented their films and projects to discuss long term ethnographic film projects and films as collection of etnographic data with the audience.
 
Ian Dunlop:
• HARD TIME NOW ... FOR THE CHILDREN, Australia 1996
• PEOPLE OF THE AUSTRALIAN WESTERN DESERT SERIES
• AT PATANTJA CLAY PAN, Australia 1970
   
  Janos Tari:
• AS FAR AS MAKO FROM JERUSALEM, 1988-1996

New ethnographic Documantaries

• Burma: KEEPERS OF THE FAITH:THE BUDDIST NUNS OF SAGAING HILLS by Hiroko Kawanami, UK 1996
• Guinea: DONKA, RADIOSCOPIE D'UN HÔPITAL AFRICAIN BY Thierry Michel, B 1996
• French Guyana: LE BOUILLON D'AWARA by Marie-Clémence & César Paes, France 1996
• Chile: INCA DE ORO, Carmen Castillo, Chile 1996
• Tuva: IN THE ARMS OF BUDDHA AND THE DRUMS, Jouko Aaltonen, Finnland 1997
   
  Papua Neuguinea:
• RASCOLS, Sally Browning, Australia 1995
• SING SING TUMBUAN, Marsha Berman, Papua Neu Guinea, Niederlande 1995
• SCHASTJE (Happiness), Russia 1995

Specials
• MAN OF ARAN by Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty, UK 1934 together with LOOKING FOR THE MAN OF ARAN by Sebastian Eschenbach, UK 1995
  How the Aran islanders deal with Flaherty's representation of themselves today?
• A LUCY, Radha-Rajen Jaganathen, France 1992
• CRACKS IN THE MASK, Frances Calvert, D 1997

Exhibition of photographs:
• VIVA FIDEL! - Eine Reise in die Absurdität
• Digital verfremdete Reportagefotographie
• By Michael Najjar / Berlin- Germany