THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone.
Meeting after many years, a makeup artist and her grandmother revisit tensions from an old family feud that still hangs heavy between them.
A man is struggling to keep his beloved bull from being used as sacrifice for his dead wife's funeral rites.
Trascendiendo los significados usuales de la antropología visual, Forest of Bliss, es una obra singularmente poética, una “sinfonía de ciudad” modernista, que crea un retrato panorámico de la antigua ciudad de Benares, India. En busca de ocupar el tiempo entre dos amaneceres, el filme se concentra en las personas, tanto de los vivos en busca de la purificación en el Ganges, como en los innumerables muertos quienes son cremados en sus bordes. Al evitar la utilización de voz en off o subtítulos, Robert Gardner ha creado una obra visual única que sutilmente reconoce el estatus de extranjero tanto del realizador como del espectador, mientras captura poderosamente las multitudes en el trabajo, el juego y la oración.
Risi nos cuenta la historia del entierro de un pescador, evitando el pintoresquismo de los lugares que ya eran famosos destinos turísticos de la época, con mujeres vestidas de negro, con el rostro hundido, y un sacerdote que las acompaña por las empinadas calles hasta el cementerio en la región costera de Tigullio, cerca de Génova justo despues de la segunda guerra mundial.
A young Ojibwe photographer stubbornly takes on the responsibility of keeping a sacred fire alive for four consecutive days and nights in mourning of his father. His father's spirit tries to reach him from the other side.
Shows the preparation of a deceased man before his funeral.
After his Tokyo farewell ceremony, Yamamoto's ashes were sent to Kyoto on March 9. Many friends and citizens gathered at his home in Uji. On the 15th a worker-farmer funeral was held at the Sanjo YMCA. Prokino's Kyoto Branch shot these five days of activities. The long line of cars is filled with taxis, whose drivers deeply admired Yamamoto. The Watanabe in the title refers to the head of the Communist Party of Japan. Watanabe was returning to Japan from Taiwan when he was stopped by authorities. He committed suicide in their custody. Yamamoto and Watanabe were mourned together.
The funeral of assassinated Yugoslavian king.