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that the very land on which they live is turning against them. Despite this, the Mursi remain faithful to old ways and traditions, herding cattle and cultivating sorghum even as the Omo River's flood level continues to drop. Item no. : PB07860137 Format : DVD Duration : 52 minutes Price : USD 149.00 DISAPPEARING DISAPPEARING WORLD: WORLD: THE THE TROBRIAND TROBRIAND ISLANDERS ISLANDERS ISLANDERS OF OF PAPUA PAPUA NNEW N EW GUINEA GUINEA Examines the society that inhabits the Trobriand Islands off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea, showing the complex balance of male authority and female wealth as well as the magic and sorcery that pervades everyday life. Examines two events in particular: distribution of a woman's estate after her death and the celebration following a yam harvest. Item no. : GG07860139 Format : DVD Duration : 52 minutes Price : USD 149.00 DISAPPEARING DISAPPEARING WORLD: WORLD: WORLD: THE THE THE TUAREG TUAREG TUAREG Life has changed drastically for the Tuareg of the Algerian desert since slavery, the economic basis of their society, was abolished in 1962. The Tuareg carry on their traditions and customs to maintain prestige, but the schools are teaching their children about the world outside the desert. Item no. : YU07860140 Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes Price : USD 149.00 DISAPPEARING DISAPPEARING WORLD: WORLD: THE THE WHALE WHALE HUNTERS HUNTERS OF OF LAMALERA LAMALERA The Lamaholot, who inhabit an Indonesian island, hunt sperm whale with forged iron harpoons ten hours a day, six days a week, eight months a year. But their way of life is jeopardized by the scarcity of their prey, and they are leaving their island village of Lamalera to seek more profitable work elsewhere. Item no. : YH07860141 Format : DVD Duration : 52 minutes Price : USD 149.00 Concheros", "Danza Azteca", & "Danza Chichimeca", traces its origins to pre-Columbian Nahua ("Aztec") roots. Its adherents are organized into dance groups, each led by a "Capitan de Danza", who must obey one of the "Generales" who head distinct lineages and claim to pass traditional lore down from before the Spanish invasion of Mexico. The "Danzantes" must take part in a complex series of "obligaciones" throughout the year. At the great annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Chalma, thousands of "Danzantes" from Mexico and the US gather for four days of ritual and dance. Since the 1960's, Mexican dance teachers like Florencio Yescas and Andres Segura have brought the "Danza" to the US. The Eagle's Children follows Mexican-American "Danzantes" to Chalma, Central Texas, and San Diego, as they rediscover their indigenous heritage. Item no. : GF07860145 Format : DVD Duration : 39 minutes Price : USD 140.00 EDWARD EDWARD R. R. MURROW MURROW COLLECTION, COLLECTION, THE: THE: HARVEST HARVEST OF OF SHAME SHAME Classic 1960 documentary expose, narrated by Murrow, of the degradation and exploitation of millions of migrant farm workers in the United States. Item no. : AN07860146 Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes Price : USD 195.00 FACEBOOK FACEBOOK FOLLIES FOLLIES Love it or hate it, Facebook is the world's most successful social networking site. Our relationships, our thoughts, our pastimes, our memories, our lives and deaths — all are now routinely recorded on Facebook. It represents a paradigm shift in communications as significant as the printing press, the telegraph or the television. Inevitably, mishaps, embarrassment and trouble accompany such change. Shot on location in Canada, the US and the UK, FACEBOOK FOLLIES is an engaging journey through one of today's most pervasive forces of social change. Item no. : LF03921276 Format : DVD Duration : 46 minutes Audience : Grades 9-12, Adult Education, Post Secondary Copyright : 2011 Price : USD 250.00 volcanic episodes that frequent their world, noting that the "ring of fire" that stretches more than 30,000 miles around the rim of the Pacific Ocean is the site of the most destructive earthquakes and volcanoes in recorded history. The first program examines the natural riches that continue to attract people to these perilous regions. Item no. : HH07860164 Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes Price : USD 145.00 FIRE FIRE ON ON THE THE RIM: RIM: 2 2 - STORIES STORIES FROM FROM THE THE THE EAR EARTH EAR TH All around the "ring of fire," cultures old and new have incorporated tales of geological disasters into myths and legends as a means of coping with the impact of these events. This program delves into the fascinating ways in which people have responded to the unpredictable workings of the Earth. Item no. : NH07860165 Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes Price : USD 145.00 FIRE FIRE ON ON THE THE RIM: RIM: 3 3 3 - THE THE PREDICTION PREDICTION PROBLEM PROBLEM PROBLEM Explains that societies for centuries have sought continually to improve the means of predicting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and that although modern technology enables scientists to make intelligent guesses about these events, forecasting remains an imperfect art. Item no. : HC07860166 Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes Price : USD 145.00 FIRE FIRE ON ON THE THE RIM: RIM: 4 4 - PREPARING PREPARING FOR FOR DISAST DISASTER DISAST ER States that damage resulting from seismic activity can be minimized by careful planning and technological innovations. This program looks at the many methods people have devised through the ages in their attempts to survive the upheavals that plague the lands around the "ring of fire." Item no. : TF07860167 Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes Price : USD 145.00 FUTURES FUTURES MARKET MARKET By Mercedes Alvarez FIRE FIRE ON ON THE THE THE RIM: RIM: 1 1 - FIRE FIRE FIRE A film essay in tableaux, FUTURES EAGLE'S EAGLE'S CHILDREN, CHILDREN, TH THE TH "La Danza de la Conquista del Gran Tenochtitlan", also known as "Los INTO INTO GOLD GOLD This series explores the ways Pacific Rim cultures cope with the seismic and MARKET traces the connections between memory, public space, and the real estate bubbles that led to the international financial crisis. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 137
Beginning with Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos' invention of the 'memory palace' - in which memories are arranged in an imagined physical space - the film suggests that the recent flurry of credit-fueled property development has depleted not only national treasuries, but the distinctive characters of these nation's cities -- and therefore, their cultural memory as well. FUTURES MARKETS takes us inside the fluorescent-lit showrooms of real estate expos, where developers hawk shares in hotel and condo projects in places from Dubai to Miami. Outside, cars crawl forward on endless stretches of anonymous highway whose "straight lines point in the direction of promises." This is Spain, but it could be almost anywhere in the world. "The art of memory was practiced by philosophers, poets, and architects", a narrator tells us. In the film we see the art of forgetting is practiced by the real estate developers, as well as business school gurus - who pledge the keys to success in the same convention centers. Meanwhile, investment bankers bark orders into multiple phones, trading futures in their non-descript offices. All peddle the same dream: a tidy and prosperous future in identical spaces the world over. To make room for these new dreams, history must be evacuated. FUTURES MARKET meditates on great art works from the past by painters like Bosch, Michelangelo, Mantegna, and Raphael. The grand philosophical and spiritual visions represented in their paintings have been replaced by the vulgar ones embodied by the glass tower condos and infinity pools in gleaming architectural models. A modest alternative is offered with the introduction of Jesus Castro, a 92-year-old junk dealer more interested in collecting than selling. We watch movers cleaning out an apartment in an old building slated for demolition, bagging up the books, furniture, and religious artifacts that bespeak a particular cultural identity. They turn up in the new repository of cultural memory: not a palace, but Castro's flea market. His stubborn refusal to bow to the marketplace's demand to forget makes him the hero of this film, which illustrates how little most of us choose to remember. Reviews � "A compelling meditation on dreams that doubles as an expose of how cheap those dreams have become, "Futures Market" is a wise and fulfilling film that bears lofty comparison with the work of Spanish maestro helmers Victor Erice and Jose Luis Guerin." - Variety � "Draw[s] attention to the invisible architects of the postmodern economy at the moment before it crashed, and...between what is discarded and devalued and the inflation of false values and dreams." - Sight & Sound Award � Jury Special Mention, 2011 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) Item no. : NV03210837 Format : DVD (Color) Duration : 110 minutes Copyright : 2011 Price : USD 398.00 GREY GREY GREY LANE, LANE, THE THE How important is the ability to drive as we become older? How hard is it to maintain independence without it? Canada and other Western nations are grappling with the emotionally charged question of what to do about older people behind the wheel. While many seniors are superbly safe drivers, statistics show those 75 and older cause more crashes than teenagers per kilometer driven. Now, as Baby Boomers start hitting 65, Canada faces a "Boomsday" scenario. And the need for better rules, regulations and alternative means of transportation is nothing less than urgent. The Grey Lane takes a close, compelling, and sometimes amusing look at the issue. Join host, seasoned stand-up comic John Wing, as he hits the road, traveling to various locations in Canada and the United States to find out how the aging process affects driving skills, how older drivers are being tested, and what alternatives exist to help seniors get around once they voluntarily – or are forced to – give up their keys Item no. : EV04121290 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 44 minutes Audience : Grades 10-12, Adult Education, Post Secondary Copyright : 2012 Price : USD 188.00 INSIDE INSIDE AFGHANISTAN AFGHANISTAN Shot in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Spinbuldak, and the Afghan countryside in 1987, this film is a look at the 'other' side of the war in Afghanistan - the Communist government and its supporters. Inside Afghanistan opens with an examination of the war as seen by the Afghan army. The documentary then looks at the educated, urban modernizers and reformers who saw the "revolution" as a way to bring Afghanistan into the modern world, even if on the Soviet model: women teachers and medical students, doctors at a children's hospital, boys at a Soviet orphanage, government officials, party members, and a rare interview with then- President Najibullah himself. The second half of the film moves to the countryside, where we visit several groups of villagers who had left the Mujahedin and were fighting on the government side under the same khans (clan landlords) who earlier had led them in their fight against the government. Inside Afghanistan underscores the chasm between the urbanized, Westernizing supporters of the Communist government and the traditional Muslim world of the villages, still based on clan and feudal ties. Without preaching, the film breaks the stereotypes of Communist "puppets" and heroic "Freedom Fighters" to give the viewer a new understanding of the tragic and complex struggle for change in Afghanistan - a struggle that is far from over. Item no. : CN07860211 Format : DVD Duration : 56 minutes Price : USD 140.00 KYPSELI: KYPSELI: WOMEN WOMEN AND AND MEN MEN APART APART - A A A DIVIDED DIVIDED REALITY REALITY Documents the peasant society of Kypseli, a small, isolated Greek village on the island of Thera in the Cyclades. Looks at how the people divide time, space, material possessions, and activities according to an underlying pattern based on separation of the sexes, and shows how this division in turn determines the village social structure. Kypseli: Women and Men Apart - A Divided Reality directed by Richard Cowan and Paul Aratow. Item no. : CS07860220 Format : DVD Duration : 37 minutes Price : USD 375.00 LEGACY: LEGACY: CENTRAL CENTRAL AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA - THE THE BURDEN BURDEN BURDEN OF OF TIME TIME Shows how the early Aztec, Mayan, and Incan peoples developed sophisticated Central American civilizations independently of the Mediterranean empires, but with striking similarities: organized government and religion (and the massive buildings to house them), international trade, scientific systems, and written languages. Item no. : NH07860228 Format : DVD Duration : 57 minutes Price : USD 175.00 LEGACY: LEGACY: CHINA CHINA CHINA - THE THE MANDATE MANDATE OF OF HEAVEN HEAVEN Presents the synthesis of East and West, illustrating how ancient China, through its many innovations such as iron-casting, gunpowder, and printing, changed the Western world and influenced modern civilization without threatening its own traditions: Confucianism, reverence for ancestors, and harmony. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 138
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