Ethnography Movies

A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory...

This is a film that shows the response of some natives to a group of gorillas that had been foraging for food in their gardens. They view the...

“The shepherdess” is a short ethnographic film inspired by Joyce, an 80 year old woman who has spent her whole life farming in Eastern...

This ethnographic short portrays a ritual using masks among the Dogon people of Mali.

"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the...

This film shows Madi people dancing.

The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the...

This recording details the skinning of animal specimens for preservation following the technique developed by Major P.H.G. Powell-Cotton himself. It...

An autistic documentary filmmaker studies two neurotypicals, trying to understand their shared way of being through objects, language and small...