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Unity Through Culture
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Filmmaker Name:
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Christian Suhr, Ton Otto
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Film Length:
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59 min
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Film Year:
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2011
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2010s
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Language:
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in Tok Pisin, Tok Baluan and English
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Subtitle Language:
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English subtitles
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Color:
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color
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Subject:
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Tradition and Revitalization
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Soanin Kilangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island in the South Pacific. He organizes the largest cultural festival ever held on the island, but some traditional leaders argue that Baluan never had culture and that culture comes from the white man and is now destroying their old tradition.
Others, however, take the festival as a welcome opportunity to revolt against '70 years of cultural oppression' by Christianity. A struggle to define the past, present and future of Baluan culture erupts to the sound of thundering log drum rhythms.
"...the various disputes that come forth during the film will provide an excellent teaching tool and springboard for myriad discussions associated with issues involving kastom, tradition, change, authenticity, performance, identity, cultural politics, exchange, and the impact of the West on traditional societies." -- Karen Stevenson, American Anthropologist, September 2012
SCREENINGS & AWARDSThe Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, USA, 2014 Freiburger Film Forum, Germany, 2013 Kratovo Ethnographic Film Festival, Macedonia, 2013 European Association for Social Anthropologists Biennial Meeting EASA, Paris, 2012 Anthropology in the World, Royal Anthropological Institute and British Museum Centre for Anthropology, London, 2012 The Intangible Culture Film Prize, Royal Anthropological Institute Festival, 2011 The Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography, Royal Anthropological Institute Festival, 2011 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Taipei, 2011 Society for Visual Anthropology Festival, AAA Meeting, Montreal, 2011 Hawaii International Film Festival HIFF, Honolulu, 2011 The International Festival for Ethnological Film, Belgrade, 2011 VISCULT - Festival of Visual Culture, Finland, 2011 Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Moscow, 2011 The NAFA Festival, St Andrews, 2011 IUAES/AAS/ASAANZ Conference 2011 Perth, 2011 Royal Anthropological Institute Festival for Ethnographic Film, London, 2011 Broadcast, Taiwan Indigenous TV, Taipei, 2011
Unity Through Culture
Directed by
Ton Otto
Christian Suhr
Produced by
Ton Otto
Christian Suhr
Film Editing by
Ton Otto
Christian Suhr
Sound Department
Steffen Dalsgaard
Christian Suhr
Camera and Electrical Department
Steffen Dalsgaard
Christian Suhr
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