This film looks into the power of film language and how we create knowledge about the world around us via audiovisual material. In unused newly digitized material shot in the Persian Gulf in the 1950s and 60s, a ‘cultural tension’ takes place in the very…
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The montage “Passage” is a tale of transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead. At the same time, it explores the understandings of science and humankind prevalent in the ethnography of the past. The film presents a reworking of…
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Islamic exorcism or psychotropic medication? “Descending with Angels” explores two different solutions to the same problem: namely Danish Muslims who are possessed by invisible spirits, called jinn. A Palestinian refugee living in the city of Aarhus has been committed to psychiatric treatment after a severe case…
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Soanin Kilangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island in the South Pacific. He organizes the largest cultural festival ever held on the island. But some traditional leaders argue that Baluan never had culture….
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What do anthropologists mean when they claim to study the cultural traditions of others by participating in them? This film follows the Dutch anthropologist Ton Otto, who has been adopted by a family on Baluan Island in Papua New Guinea. Due to the death of…
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