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that nurtured them.
In the current age of wars and turmoil, this
is a relevant and uplifting story of lasting
traditions that are meaningful in the
modern world with values that potentially
can inspire us and help us transcend our
global challenges.
Award
� Silver Palm Award, Mexico
International Film Festival, 2012
Item no. : KV03720823
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 60 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 282.00
I I DREAM DREAM OF OF OF MUMMERS
MUMMERS
MUMMERS
By Adela Peeva
I Dream of Mummers is a story about a
custom, called kukeri, in which masked
people dance at the end of Winter and the
beginning of Spring. The custom's origins
are hidden far back in the past — a
tradition that has become part of the
history of an entire nation. It is found in
many places in Bulgaria, but here, in the
village of Sushitsa, it has almost
completely preserved its authenticity and
can still be seen as it was performed
centuries ago.
For people here, this is the biggest feast of
the year, and today, on its eve, the entire
village is preparing for the celebration.
Bells are tinkling, costumes and masks
are taken out of drawers and attics.
Everything looks just as it did in an old
newsreel found in the National Film
Archives. In 1942 — more than 60 years
ago — cameras filmed the same
celebration in the same village. Here the
tradition is handed down from generation
to generation, from father to son, and
when shown this archival footage, some
people in the village recognized their
fathers and grandfathers. One man
recognized his father and another saw his
grandfather as a young man with curly
mustache.
This is a film about a small village and its
inhabitants, about an ancient tradition that
they have preserved almost intact to this
day, and about a friendship as undying as
the tradition itself.
Awards
� Ashgate Audience Film Prize, RAI
International Festival of Ethnographic
Film, London, 2011
� Preservation of Spiritual Heritage
Award, International Festival of
Ethnological Film, Serbia, 2011
� Best Bulgarian Film, International
Mountain Film Festival, Bulgaria,
2011
Item no. : PH03790827
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 27 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 252.00
JATHILAN: JATHILAN: TRANCE TRANCE AND AND
AND
POSSESSION POSSESSION POSSESSION IN IN JAVA
JAVA
By Robert Lemelson
Practiced in Java for centuries, Jathilan is
a folk dance that uses the power of music
and dance to channel powerful and
sometimes terrifying forces. Led by a
spiritual guide and a whip-bearing
ringleader, a group of dancers ride woven
horses in rhythmic unison until they are
entered by spirits. Once possessed they
engage in a range of self-mortification
behaviors until safely emerging from their
altered state, left with no memory of the
event and no lingering ill effects.
The film combines footage of a number of
Jathilan performances with interviews with
dancers, spiritual leaders, anthropologists,
and enthusiasts. This extraordinary
practice becomes more than just
spectacle as Jathilan is contextualized
within broader processes of Indonesian
historical, political and social change and
the viewer is provided a window into the
subjective experiences of those who
participate. Multiple interpretations of
Jathilan's significance ultimately emerge,
from an empirical proof of spiritual
presence, to a strategy of community
building, to a resistant expression of folk
identity.
Item no. : HR03650828
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 27 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 167.00
LOVER LOVER AND AND THE THE BELOVE BELOVED,
BELOVE BELOVE D,
THE: THE: A A A JOURNEY JOURNEY INTO
INTO
TANTRA TANTRA
TANTRA
By Andy Lawrence
A documentary feature film about one
man's journey across northern India and
his search for enlightenment. Rajive
McMullen, a history teacher suffering from
a debilitating illness, makes the painful
journey into the heart of Tantra, searching
for meaning in holy shrines, coming close
to death in cremation grounds and
enjoying the chaos of the Aghori seekers.
This film offers dramatic insight into Tantrik
ideas about the life cycle, particularly
death, and contributes much to our
understanding of how we seek knowledge
and how we die. The Lover and The
Beloved also represents a realistic attempt
to understand both the practice and
illusive theory behind Indian Tantrism, and
is intended to challenge widespread
Western misinterpretations of this system
of thought. Along the way we visit
Kamakhya Devi in Assam and Tarapith in
West Bengal, two of the most important
centres of Tantrik Hinduism.
Reviews
� "...The Lover and the Beloved
captures the atmosphere of this kind
of milieu extremely well and I found it
genuinely compelling viewing." -
Jonathan Parry, LSE (author of Death
in Banaras)
� "...dazzled, moved, shaken,
engaged... the evocation of a certain
and wonderfully wierd India is
perfect." - Lee Siegal, (Pulitzer Prize
nominee and author of Net of Magic:
Wonders and Deceptions in India)
Item no. : WH03720829
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 70 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 282.00
RURAL
RETURN RETURN TO TO THE THE BROUCK BROUCK:
BROUCK :
THE THE FENLAND, FENLAND, 40 40 YEAR YEARS YEAR YEAR S
ON
ON
By Colette Piault
Forty years after the production of The
Fenland (Le Brouck) comes a follow up
about the Audomarois Fenland.
Return to the Brouck (Retour au Brouck)
Set in the natural environment of northern
France, criss-crossed with water ways,
market gardening as well as breeding
remain the only productive activities.
Nevertheless, the number of fenlanders
has seriously diminished from 200 farms
in the 1970 to 40 in 2010. Other elements
are now intervening such as ecology,
preservation and development like the
Natural Regional Park and the Romelaere
Natural Reserve, or leisure activities like
waterfowl hunting, fishing and tourism.
Through images and words Return to the
Brouck expresses this new reality,
confronting the actors of the past - young
fenlanders of the 70s - with the present.
Juxtaposing the images of the past with
those of 2010. The core of the film still
remains, as in the 70s, the vivid problem
of the present and the future of the
Audomarois Fenland and its inhabitants.
Item no. : HU03650831
Format : DVD (Color, Black and
White, French with
English subtitles)
Duration : 55 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 305.00
SCIENCE
BAILEY'S BAILEY'S BIG BIG BACKYAR
BACKYARD:
BACKYAR D:
AIR AIR & & WIND WIND
WIND
Bailey's Big Backyard is based on the
premise that the whole world is our
backyard.This groundbreaking K-3
science education series features
animated characters that interact and
experience the real world. Bailey, and
adventurous and inquisitive kid and his
curiosity leads him to explore the world
withe the help of his two friends Boggs, a
mischievous frog and Maggie the magical
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