Exhibition in South Africa featuring the Marshall films: Bringing Back the Archive
We are delighted to announce an exhibition featuring John Marshall’s films and Marshall expedition photos now open at the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Center outside Cape Town, South Africa. The exhibit opened in September 2023, following a multi-year collaboration between !Khwa ttu, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and DER.
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DER Receives 2023 Preservation Grant from NFPF
DER is 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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Director’s Pick: Dana Rappoport on DEAD BIRDS, Narrated by Jean Rouch
Dana Rappoport, esteemed anthropologist and filmmaker of DEATH OF ONE WHO KNOWS, recently shared a brief review of Robert Gardner’s DEAD BIRDS with Jean Rouch providing the narration in French.
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Press Release: 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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DER Podcast: Mary Zournazi on MY REMBETIKA BLUES
We recently sat down with filmmaker Mary Zournazi to discuss her new film My Rembetika Blues. Rembetika music, or the Greek blues, is a music born of exile and the streets, developing its roots from the mass migration of people in the early twentieth century.
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Update on Indigenous Studies Film Initiative
We are excited to share an update on the progress of our Indigenous Studies Film Initiative. We’ve just completed the first phases related to re-imagining the presentation of Indigenous content on our website which was inspired by our review of contemporary Indigenous archiving standards.
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