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FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS
Intersecting Lives: An Interview with Olivier Pollet and Kristian Lasslett
Recently, we interviewed filmmaker Olivier Pollet and Professor Kristian Lasslett about the making of the online platform The Colonial Syndrome, a companion to their remarkable film Ophir.
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NEWS
DER Receives 2023 Preservation Grant from NFPF
We are excited to announce that we are recipients of a 2023 preservation grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to restore two of John Marshall’s films – BITTER MELONS (1971) and N/UM TCHAI (1969).
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NEWS
ITAM HAKIM HOPIIT Added to the National Film Registry
DER is proud to announce the induction of Victor Masayesva, Jr.’s Itam Hakim Hopiit into the National Film Registry. Each year, the Library of Congress (LOC) selects 25 films deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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EVENTS
Archival Legacies of the Yanomamö Series
DER co-hosted a panel at the Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival focused on the technical and aesthetic issues underlying film preservation and digital restoration and exploring the value of these films for the Yanomamö and anthropologists interested in more equitable collaborations.
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RESOURCES
Indigenous Studies Film Initiative
Our Indigenous Studies Film Initiative is a commitment to decolonize and indigenize the DER film collection and improve access to our catalogue for Indigenous audiences through the creation of an interactive map, application of reparative language to subject categories, and outreach and collaboration with communities depicted in our collection.
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EVENTS
DER50: Tim Asch Symposium at USC
In November 2018, the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California held a day-long symposium on the work of Timothy Asch, an event which also helped celebrate DER’s 50th anniversary.
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EVENTS
The Cinema of Patience: Reflecting on N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman
As part of DER’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University hosted a film screening & panel discussion on N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman.
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Sama in the Forest
Carlos Gómez, Coralynn Davis -
The Bride Market of Imilchil
Christian & Steffen Pierce -
The Intersection
Jessamine Irwin, Daniel Quintanilla -
Light Upon Light
Christian Suhr -
A Thousand Fires
Saeed Taji Farouky -
Ujirei (Regeneration)
Mateo Sobode Chiqueno -
Unearthed
Colin Rosemont -
Experimental Curator: The Sally Dixon Story
Brigid Maher -
King for a Day
Barbara Santi -
Machanic Manyeruke
James Ault -
Waaki (Sanctuary)
Victor Masayesva, Jr. -
SanDance!
Richard Wicksteed, Edwin Angless -
Threads
Katherine Sender, Shuchi Kothari -
Death of the One who Knows
Dana Rappoport -
Ophir
Alexandre Berman, Olivier Pollet -
Padauk: Myanmar Spring
Jeanne Hallacy, Rares Michael Ghilezan -
My Rembetika Blues
Mary Zournazi
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