The Hunters

The Hunters 1957

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An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53. In addition to the giraffe hunt, the film shows other aspects of !Kung life at that time, including family relationships, socializing and storytelling, and the hard work of gathering plant foods and hunting for small game.

1957

Norville and Trudy

Norville and Trudy 1997

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A film by Dinah Wynter made in conjunction with Harvard University.

1997

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary 2013

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An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50 of the speed at which they were recorded, it simultaneously slows movement and animates the still, revealing a liminal universe at the threshold of human vision. In this flux, one beholds a netherworld of aqueous forms that appear in one frame and disappear or transmogrify into something else in the next.

2013

Summer in My Veins

Summer in My Veins 1999

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A personal documentary of the director's struggle to come out with his homosexuality to his mother who is visiting him in the United States from India for his graduation.

1999