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Dead Birds

Robert Gardner / US, 1963 / 84 min.

Classic ethnographic documentary by Harvard academic Robert Gardner on the Hubula, a people living in a mountainous region of western New Guinea. Gardner shows their ritual warfare and way of life; the Hubula see themselves as birds destined to die. Screens to accompany the Paravel-Castaing-Taylor exhibition.

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In 1961, respected Harvard University ethnologist Robert Gardner set out with an extensive team of anthropologists, artists, photographers and a film crew for the Baliem valley in the highlands of (at the time still) Dutch New Guinea; he wanted to film indigenous people who retained their traditional way of life – the Hubula.

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Not (yet) ratedThis movie contains scenes of explicit discrimination

Director

Robert Gardner

Production year

1963

Country

US

Original title

Dead Birds

Length

84 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NONE

Part of

Paravel & Castaing-Taylor

Eye Filmmuseum presents Cosmic Realism, the first retrospective featuring the works of Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Trained as anthropologists, they merge anthropology, documentaries, and visual arts in their craft. The exhibition takes the viewer past seven immersive installations in which the development of the makers can be followed.

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