First Run/Icarus Films > Anthropology

New name, new look, new featured films

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:21:47 GMT

First Run / Icarus Films is now Icarus Films, and we've updated our web site to reflect the name change. We've also featured new films on the home page, so please come have a look.

First Run / Icarus Films at the AAA's Annual Conference Film Series

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:54:48 GMT

The American Anthropological Association's Society of Visual Anthropologists are holding their annual conference from November 28 - December 2, 2007. THE FACE OF EVIL, EVERYTHING'S FINE, INSIDE OUT, CAN'T DO IT IN EUROPE, and JUSTICE AT AGADEZ will all be screened over the course of the conference, with EVERYTHING'S FINE and JUSTICE AT AGADEZ both to receive Awards of Commendation.

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:59:24 GMT

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

Forever

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:58:53 GMT

A poignant tour of the importance of art in the lives of visitors to the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world.

Metal and Melancholy

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:58:00 GMT

Roving the city of Lima, Peru, Heddy Honigmann meets teachers, actors, professionals, civil servants and many others who have turned to taxi driving to earn enough to get by.

The Prize of the Pole

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:57:15 GMT

Robert Peary's quest to plant an American flag at the North Pole came with enormous, and sometimes unacknowledged, costs. Now his great-grandson wants to set the record straight.

The Sugar Curtain

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:56:30 GMT

An intimate portrait by Camila Guzmán Urzúa about growing up in Cuba during the "golden years" of the Cuban Revolution.

Dreaming Lhasa

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:03:58 GMT

A narrative feature about a Tibetan filmmaker looking to reconnect to her roots by making a documentary in the Tibetan exile community.

Tambogrande

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:40:05 GMT

Follows the efforts of a small Peruvian town over five years as they fight government efforts to sell the mineral rights under their houses to a multi-national mining company.

On the Rumba River

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:39:12 GMT

"Papa Wendo" and band have been playing in their unique musical fusion style along the Congo River for nearly sixty years.

The Face of Evil

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:03:35 GMT

A history of attempts to categorize the physiognomy of evil. From the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch to physiognomics, phrenology, eugenics, and anthropometrics.

The Bible Unearthed

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:22:10 GMT

A four-part series based on the best-selling book The Bible Revealed by Israël Finkelstein (Prof. of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University) and Neil Silberman (Director of the Ename Center for Public Archaeology & Heritage Presentation).

Can't Do It In Europe

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:21:25 GMT

In Potosí, Bolivia, some tourists go down the deadly silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Why do they crawl through contaminated tunnels on their vacation - to know a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?

Glenafooka

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:20:10 GMT

Enchanting examination of the persistence in rural Ireland today of ancient beliefs in otherworld spirits, including fairies, ghosts, banshees and other supernatural forces.

How Happy Can You Be?

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:19:25 GMT

What is happiness? And how do we get more of it? Visiting leading figures in positive psychology and observing clinical experiments, this is a light-hearted but serious investigation.

Inside Out

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:18:42 GMT

Transsexuals in Iran. Intimate conversations with doctors, religious authorities, and transexuals about the mind/body conflict, Islamic interpretations, and the impact of sex-change treatments on their lives.

49 UP

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:39:57 GMT

The seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."

Compadre

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:28:49 GMT

Thirty years after meeting Daniel Barrientos and his family in Lima, Peru, where they eked out survival scavenging in garbage dumps, the filmmaker returns, and re-enters their lives.

The Devil's Miner

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:29:54 GMT

Two brothers, Basilio (age 14) and Bernardino (12), work long shifts in the Cerro Rico silver mines in Bolivia. They brave deadly conditions, hoping the "mountain devil's" generosity will allow them to earn enough money to attend school.

Remembering

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:30:35 GMT

The phenomena of human memory. A dialogue with one's own history? An incomprehensible flow of individual and collective references that determine our current and future life?

The Dreamers of Arnhem Land

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:17:46 GMT

The two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by combining traditional knowledge and contemporary scientific expertise.

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:16:42 GMT

The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.

Bruly Bouabre's Alphabet

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:16:03 GMT

In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.

The Human Hambone

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:14:17 GMT

Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when African slaves were forbidden to use drums, and so resorted to the body itself as a percussive instrument.

The Passion of María Elena

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:11:13 GMT

Following the hit-and-run death of her son, Maria Elena, a young woman from Mexico's Raramuri community, embarks upon an eye-opening journey from grief to unexpected spiritual resolution.

Advertising Missionaries

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:08:11 GMT

Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Chronicle of a Summer

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:05:12 GMT

Paris, 1960. The seminal cinéma vérité film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. From a simple starting point - asking Are you happy, sir? - this true landmark in film history explores the possibilities to film the inner truths of peoples lives.

Coincidence in Paradise

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:04:26 GMT

Delves into the mystery of our origins, seeking the latest discoveries that may answer the question - What exactly was it that first initiated our genesis, our species' actual birth?

Knorosov: The Decipherment of the Mayan Script

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:01:46 GMT

The story of the decipherment of the ancient Mayan writing system, and that of the little-known Russian linguist who, almost 500 years after the codice's discovery, figured them out.

Red Persimmons

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:56:50 GMT

A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.

The Return of Sara Baartman

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:54:25 GMT

After years of unsettling negotiation with France, South Africa finally welcomes home the remains of Sara Baartman in an historic event of repatriation.

Still, The Children Are Here

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:51:27 GMT

A portrait of the Garo people of India, for whom cultivating rice is a way of life and worship, this film not only describes an indigenous culture, but the essential nature of humanity. Produced by Mira Nair.

Trinkets and Beads

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:50:14 GMT

The oil company MAXUS and Huaroni Indians of the Amazon.

The Wild East

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:48:14 GMT

An ethnographic rendering of life in Ulan Bator, a city at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, communism and global capitalism.

The Yirrkala Film Project

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:41:33 GMT

A series of 22 films by Ian Dunlop, 5 of which are currently released, on the lives of residents of an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula, in far northern Australia.