Awake. A Dream from Standing Rock a film by Josh Fox (2017, 89 mins) Bullfrog Films Distribution Website The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the […]Continue Reading
Denial a film by Derek Hallquist (2016, 92 mins) Bullfrog Films Distribution Website Every day our changing climate pushes us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but for most the problem is easy to ignore. As people we often find it difficult to face change. We’d rather be in denial. David Hallquist, CEO of a Vermont […]Continue Reading
The Return a film by Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway (83 mins) Bullfrog Films After California’s “Three Strikes” law was amended, thousands of lifers were suddenly freed, but re-entry presented problems for the lifers, their families and their communities. Tweet #visualanthropologyContinue Reading
Disturbing the Peace by S. Apkan, A. Young, M. Hale Bullfrog Films Distribution In a world torn by conflict–in a place where the idea of peace has been abandoned–an energy of determined optimism emerges. When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who […]Continue Reading
Bal Ej: The Hidden Jews Of Ethiopia a film by Irene Orleansky www.ireneorleansky.com Though it has been formally announced that with the last emigration of Falash Mura, there are no more Jews left in Ethiopia, there are still a number Jews living in Addis Ababa and the North Shewa region of Ethiopia, most of whom […]Continue Reading
Anthropocene Directed by Steve Bradshaw 97 mins Produced by Jenny Richards Editor: Sotira Kyriacou Cinematography: Alex Gabbay, Magne Ostby, Stefano Cassini Music: Audio Network Produced by Flaxmoor Productions in association with Panos Pictures, Spring Films, TV/E Distributor: Bullfrog Films Examines whether human impact has tipped the planet into a new geological epoch, Continue Reading
Confluences. Emerillon of French Guyana (2007, 86 mins.) by Perle Møhl Distribution: Semiosis.fr Perle Møhl is an independent researcher and teacher of visual anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark Like forceful omens, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Amerindian Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. With this film, a Continue Reading
Adelante, a film by Noam Osband (2014, 50 min.), showcases an Irish Catholic church on the outskirts of Philadelphia that is attracting the patronage of Mexican immigrants in the areaContinue Reading
The Flame. Searching for Gold in Crestone (76 min.) a film by Sean Owen Tweet #visualanthropologyContinue Reading
Cochengo Miranda (1974, 53 min.) by Jorge Preloran Distribution: DER The extensive region of the Pampas in Central Argentina is one of the most fertile in the world. However, as the rains subside towards the West, the land becomes arid and dry. Here live a sparse population of rugged cattlemen whose nearest neighbor may be […]Continue Reading