We have what you could consider in that area. Margot Benacerraf's Araya Lionel Rogosin's On The Bowery Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep
Fondest regards, Dennis Doros *Milestone Film & Video • *38 George Street • Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: +1 (201) 767-3117 • Email: [email protected] • www.milestonefilms.com • www.missingmovies.org Pronouns: He, Him JOIN MILESTONE'S MAILING LIST TODAY! <http://milestonefilms.us3.list-manage1.com/subscribe/post?u=4a0b9e434a9f3e8603c29806e&id=f30d1906e2> Support us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM Dave Tetzlaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, Nanook is a poetic ethnographic film, as 'Nanook' was a > semi-fictional character, demonstrating old ways of the Inuit, still > remembered by the adults who appear in the film, though their actual > practices had morphed toward more modern tools. > > City symphony films like Man With a Move Camera and Berlin aren't what we > typically think of as ethnographic, but they do explore urban life in a > poetic form. > > Night Mail's sound track is an actual poem by W.H. Auden. > > I'd say an anthropologist who only knows mainstream film MUST check out > Sol Worth generally and read Through Navajo Eyes specifically. > > Within the accepted genre of "ethnographic film", a couple examples noted > for artistry are The Axe Fight and Dead Birds. For other suggestions, you > can look at the films mentioned in David Macdougal's essay in Movies and > Methods v.1 (Nichols, ed) and the various chapters of Documenting the > Documentary (Grant and Sloniowski, eds) including one devoted to a Brakhage > film! > > Finally, not necessarily poetic or experimental, but for me a must-see > film documenting a particular culture is Seventeen (sometimes listed as > "Middletown: Seventeen") by Joel DeMott and longtime Frameworks commenter > Jeff Kreines. It was intended for public broadcasting. but was suppressed. > It may be hard to find (if you have an academic affiliation, try > interlibrary loan), but it's worth the effort. > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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