John Marshall Movies

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert, filmed during the...

An unemployed woman who has been living in her car is questioned by the police. They offer her advice and finally take her to the Salvation Army.

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the...

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in...

In each scene, police respond to a different domestic abuse calls.

This short film shows a family's attempt to resolve a dispute among themselves over a brother's damaged car, after the police have been called to...

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana.

FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the...

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance,...

A customer tries to explain to police why he feels he has been cheated out of an exhaust system by a garage owner.

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with...

An Argument About a Marriage raises questions about the impact of European farms on the economic and the social life of the Ju/'hoansi; about the...

Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal...

Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then...

This film consists of several sequences related to arrests after street fights involving policemen, and discussions of the incidents by the police in...

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had...