Ethnographical Movies

An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of...

Bringing offerings of rice, flowers, and woven coconut leaves, clients visit Jero in her household shrine to determine the cause of their son's...

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

Ñaalec (Fabián Valdez) is a Moqoit college student disenchanted with formal ways of learning and embarrassed by his drunken classmates....

A documentary about the daily life of a native Tzotzil community in southern Mexico, shot over a period of eight years.

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

Short ethnographic documentary on the Tetela tribe in Congo based upon footage and commentary by director Luc de Heusch from 1953 reassembled by...

This documentary looks at the stories of a few people in Aspen Colorado and how they contribute to the community.

Two brothers in a remote Indian town are in love with the same girl, a new teacher who has been assigned to the town. The older brother is a brute...

Exploring individual responses to rapid social change, Cowboy and Maria in town follows the parallel lives of its two central characters. Cowboy and...

A 16-minute short shot with a totally subjective eye; conveys the mythic life sense and social elements of a people who live in the world's highest...

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...