Ethnographical Movies

A meditative stroll through Sacramento landmarks, from the gentrified to the urban.

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

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during...

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.

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

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

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

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

The darkness of the mine, invaded by the miners' light, by the noisy machines and the permanent and intense smell of ore in the air, leads us to an...

An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro.

“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

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

This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several...