[RNLD] Fwd: Pitcairn Island trailer film

[Elar Archive]

The ELAR-Chouette Films are also viewable on the ELAR Vimeo channel
(Chouette Films ELAR Video Installation album):
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/krZOBliaW23GcD?domain=vimeo.com

Cheers,

Marti

On 29 October 2017 at 23:22, Lauren Gawne <lauren.gawne at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ELAR had a project last year, working with a small UK video production
> company (Chouette Films) to turn video materials from 6 collections in the
> archive into short documentary films. I think this is probably the easiest
> way to access them all:
>
> https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pLGZBoiAOmr0FW?domain=blogs.soas.ac.uk
> <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pLGZBoiAOmr0FW?domain=blogs.soas.ac.uk>
>
> My archive of Syuba materials was one of the collections, it was an
> interesting experience and the final production quality of the videos is
> very impressive.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lauren
>
>
> On 30 October 2017 at 04:22, Frank Seidel <frank.zidle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> thank you Joshua Nash for this trailer. I will be looking forward to
>> seeing the documentary. I believe that documentary linguistics or language
>> archives can profit much from narrative films to contextualize and explore
>> languages and communities further. I would like to see more initiatives
>> such as these or the ICLDC pre-conference screenings. Here is a documentary
>> that emerged out of one of my ELDP grant projects and has seen a few
>> screenings on ethnographic film festivals. Instead of 'documenting' it is
>> the product of using a camera as an exploratory device in an event (a death
>> ritual of a female secret society coupled with an islamic *fidao) *that
>> we as outsiders to the Guinean Coast (West Africa) did not know much about,
>> but were invited to film. We have finally made an English subtitled version
>> of (it used to be French subtitles, so basically nobody was watching it).
>> (I hope you enjoy this).
>>
>> https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ld1ZBmSkG51xcn?domain=academia.edu
>> <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ld1ZBmSkG51xcn?domain=academia.edu>
>>
>> If other documentary linguistics projects have used film in any other
>> mode than 'recording' and collecting language events, I would be really
>> interested in those and would appreciate you sharing them.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Frank Seidel
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sent on behalf of Joshua Nash
>>>
>>> Dear RNLD List,
>>>
>>> I have produced a short 3:20 trailer titled "*Inside(r)-Outside(r): A
>>> Pitcairn Island Pilgrimage*" about my 2016 fieldtrip to Pitcairn
>>> Island. It is intended as a teaser for a larger 20 minute documentary film
>>> I plan to produce in 2018:
>>>
>>> https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GN1VBvtQvL1zS1?domain=youtube.com
>>> <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GN1VBvtQvL1zS1?domain=youtube.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would hope people working in language documentation would appreciate
>>> this short taste test.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Joshua Nash
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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