Film Forum Special

One night at Maasai Mara, Kenya, a young war­rior was dream­ing of a woman born in Africa three mil­lion years ago. In his dream she asked him to look for her and to take her back to the place where she came from. The young war­rior and his two com­pan­ions go to Paris where the woman is called »Lucy«. They pass through Paris as if there was a marked way. Signs and sym­bols lead them to the museum where »Lucy« is exposed. After­wards they dis­ap­pear togeth­er with Lucy to the land of the Massai where the earth has stripes and the sky is blue.

»Back then, the white man came, saw… and collected«. A cen­tu­ry ago the Torres Strait Islands in far north Aus­tralia were the famous sub­jects of the Cam­bridge Anthro­po­log­i­cal Expe­di­tion; yet … read more

Robert Fla­her­ty’ film MAN OF ARAN (1934) is among the first ethno­graph­ic doc­u­men­taries. LOOKING FOR THE MAN OF ARAN inves­ti­gates how the Aran Islanders deal with Flaherty’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion of them­selves. … read more

The film is a fas­ci­nat­ing doc­u­ment of the former fishermen’s and farm­ers’ life on the isle of Aran, near the west coast of Ire­land. »MAN OF ARAN was the first … read more