Ethnographic Film Movies

  • 2022
    Pileni paualala. Dried giant clams in the Reef Islands

    Pileni paualala. Dried giant clams in the Reef Islands

    Pileni paualala. Dried giant clams in the Reef Islands

    02022HD

    The Reef Islands Ethnographic Film Project was started in 1994 by the two anthropologists, Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford, and village...

    Pileni paualala. Dried giant clams in the Reef Islands
  • 1932
    Cooking Milk with Hot Stones

    Cooking Milk with Hot Stones

    Cooking Milk with Hot Stones

    01932HD

    An ethnographic film by Milovan Gavazzi, the founder of Croatian ethnology. The films displays a practice that was already a rarity at the time.

    Cooking Milk with Hot Stones
  • 2020
    Snowflakes

    Snowflakes

    Snowflakes

    12020HD

    Rye, a photographer, and Chris, a political science student, are in their final year of college, and have lived together in the same house for three...

    Snowflakes
  • 2026
    in the present tense

    in the present tense

    in the present tense

    02026HD

    What is an ethnographic film? Can there even be one? This film is an attempt— or, as we have come to call it, a "botched baby"— of trying...

    in the present tense
  • 2004
    Mar Paraguayo

    Mar Paraguayo

    Mar Paraguayo

    02004HD

    A poetic text foretelling a death. An elderly Paraguayan woman—a fortune-teller and prostitute living in the seaside town of...

    Mar Paraguayo