Σε μια προσπάθεια να ξεπεράσει μια τραγική απώλεια και να σώσει τη σχέση της, μια νεαρή γυναίκα αποφασίζει να ταξιδέψει με τον σύντροφό της και τους φίλους του σε ένα παγανιστικό φεστιβάλ, όπου μια σειρά παράξενων γεγονότων παίρνουν βίαιη τροπή.
Δυο αιώνιοι φοιτητές κτηνιατρικής, ο Χουάν και ο Μπενχαμίν, που ζουν με τους δικούς τους, αποφασίζουν να κάνουν μια παράτολμη ληστεία. Βραβείο Σεναρίου στο Φεστιβάλ Βερολίνου, Βραβείο Σκηνοθεσίας στις «Νύχτες Πρεμιέρας».
Ο καθηγητής Ανθρωπολογικής Ιστορίας και Κοινωνιολογίας Τζών Ολντμαν, μετά από 10 χρόνια παραμονής στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Μινεσσότα, αποφασίζει ότι είναι πλέον καιρός να φύγει. Για πού, ούτε και ο ίδιος ξέρει! Έτσι, καλεί ένα Σάββατο βράδυ τους φίλους του, επίσης καθηγητές στο ίδιο Πανεπιστήμιο, για να τους ανακοινώσει την απόφασή του και να τους αποχαιρετήσει.
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Ένας ανθρωπολόγος μεταβαίνει σε μια Αρκτική βάση, όταν οι εξερευνητές ανακαλύπτουν το σώμα ενός προϊστορικού ανθρώπου που έχει καταψυχθεί μέσα σε ένα συμπαγές κομμάτι πάγου για 40.000 χρόνια. Μετά την απόψυξη του σώματος, για να εκτελέσουν αυτοψία, οι επιστήμονες ανακαλύπτουν προς έκπληξη τους, μια μεγάλη πιθανότητα να τον ζωντανέψουν, καθώς κάτι που εκείνος είχε φάει, απέτρεψε την κρυστάλλωση των κυττάρων. Όταν όμως η προσπάθεια τους θα αποδειχθεί επιτυχής, πολλά ηθικά ερωτήματα θα προκύψουν, για τον τρόπο μεταχείρισης του "ανθρώπου των πάγων" από γιατρούς και ερευνητές...
Το σχέδιο της Μάγκι να αποκτήσει παιδί χωρίς σύντροφο καταρρέει όταν ερωτεύεται τον Τζον, διαλύοντας τον εύθραυστο γάμο του με την πανέξυπνη και αφόρητη Τζορτζέτ. Τρία χρόνια αργότερα, η Μάγκι έχει αποκτήσει μία κόρη με τον Τζον, αλλά δεν τρέφει πια τα ίδια αισθήματα για τον πατέρα του παιδιού της. Τι κάνεις όταν υποψιάζεσαι ότι ο σύντροφος σου και η πρώην γυναίκα του είναι τέλειοι ο ένας για τον άλλον;
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.
Φανατικός οπαδός της heavy metal μουσικής ο ίδιος ο Dunn αλλά και με σπουδές κοινωνιολογίας – ανθρωπολογίας προσπαθεί με αυτό το ντοκιμαντέρ να απαντήσει στο ερώτημα γιατί η metal δέχεται τόσο μεγάλες επικρίσεις σε σχέση με οποιοδήποτε άλλο είδος μουσικής. Για να φτάσει βέβαια εκεί αρχίζει από τα πρώτα metal συγκροτήματα, εξετάζει τη συγγένεια αυτής της μουσικής με άλλες, τη σχέση της με τη θρησκεία, τη λογοκρισία, τα ντυσίματα και άλλα πολλά. Μέσα από αναλύσεις, συνεντεύξεις και στιγμιότυπα από συναυλίες προσπάθεί σε μιάμιση ώρα να εξετάσει το θέμα όσο πιο σφαιρικά γίνεται....
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.
The Kumiho family circus in town -- and with it, apparently, a mysterious murderer. The members of motherless family aren’t helping their case with their strange remarks about humans and their initial performances, cavalcades of dismemberment and torrents of blood which terrify the local kids. Pretty soon, a dour, downbeat cop is on the tail of the plucky, bumbling Kumihos. Or rather, tails -- “kumiho” is the word for the fox spirits of Korean mythology, and this clan from Nam Mountain near Seoul, temporarily disguised as people thanks to a magic spell, must eat human livers during a brief, once-in-a-millennium lunar eclipse to shed their foxy nature and assume permanent human form. When the sleazy reprobate on the run from mobsters stumbles into their eerie household, he soon finds himself a little too enthusiastically involved in their scheming after human flesh—and involved with the sexy elder-sister fox spirit as well!
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the aftermath of the pandemic. Filmed in Wuhan, the film follows the everyday lives of three middle-class households. It postulates the existence of a mass dreaming phenomenon that facilitated fatigued Chinese inhabitants to rejuvenate themselves following the secluded episode of lived experience and to coexist with the enduring imprints of "the event" on their social lives.
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
Sequel to the "The Waterfowl People". The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relationships of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansi, Hungarians, Sami, Nganasans, and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on location in northern Finland, Sapmi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, the Setomaa region in Estonia, and on the Estonian islands of Saaremaa and Muhu. Footage was also shot in 1970 in the Nenets Okrug. The second documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum" series.