Today on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the next short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the Meakambut ways of speaking: Audio-visual documentation of communication practices in a small semi-nomadic hunter-and-gatherer society in Papua New Guinea deposited by ELDP grantee Darja Hoenigman.

On this film, Darja writes:

The Meakambut are a group of 62 tropical foragers living and moving in their mountainous limestone country in the Northern fringe of Papua New Guinea Highlands. They speak their own language, Meambul momba, which belongs to the small Arafundi group. In this video we see Olomaŋey, Aŋgay, Yakalok and Parawip at Amiñimba rock shelter. The subtitled video provides us with a real-time experience of some ‘moments in their lives, which are now kept in the computer’, as the Meakambut themselves tend to explain my work with them.

Thank you to Anna, Remy, Darja, and the speakers who made this film possible! Check back here on the blog to see the rest of the short films, which will be featured on the blog (one per week) in the coming weeks!

This week on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the next short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the ‘Documentation and Description of Dulong (Trung)‘ deposit at ELAR, deposited by ELDP grantee Ross Perlin.

On this film, Ross wrote:

Dulong (Trung) people live along the river and have several traditional ways of fishing. One sunny afternoon, three cousins went to a nearby bend in the river, explaining how they net fish. Dulong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 6,000 people in China’s Yunnan Province, in the eastern Himalayas.

Thank you to Anna, Remy, Ross, and the speakers who made this film possible! Check back here on the blog to see more of these beautiful short films (only three left!) which will be featured on the blog each week during the next few weeks!

Today on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the next short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the ‘Documenting a religious minority: the Dari dialect of Kerman, Iran‘ deposited by ELDP grantee Saloumeh Gholami.

Thank you to Anna, Remy, Saloumeh and the speakers who made this film possible! Check back here on the blog to see more of these beautiful short films, which will be featured on the blog (one per week) in the coming weeks!

Last week on the ELAR blog, we shared this film which was created by Chouette Films from documentation from the ‘Yoloxochitl, Guerrero, Mexico Mixtec stories and other oral traditions‘ deposit at ELAR, deposited by ELDP grantee Jonathan D. Amith.

This week on the blog, Jonathan is sharing footage from his documentation fieldwork:

On this film, Jonathan writes:

Esteban Guadalupe Sierra, de Yoloxóchitl, Guerrero, un hablante del mixteco de esta comunidad, le explica y le enseña a sus hijos como hacer un trompo de madera. Él usa la madera del ‘cuaulote’ (Guazuma ulmifolia Lam.) una madera blanda que facilita el tallado del trompo.

Esteban Guadalupe Sierra of Yoloxóchitl, Guerrero, a community speaker of Mixteco, explains and teaches his sons how to make a wooden spinning top. He uses the wood from cuaulote (Guazuma ulmifolia Lam), which is a soft wood which lends itself well to carving spinning tops. 

Thank you to Jonathan and the speakers for sharing!

Today on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the next short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the ‘Yoloxochitl, Guerrero, Mexico Mixtec stories and other oral traditions‘ deposit at ELAR, deposited by ELDP grantee Jonathan D. Amith.

Thank you to Anna, Remy, Jonathan, and the speakers who made this film possible! Check back here on the blog to see the rest of the short films, which will be featured on the blog (one per week) in the coming weeks!

Today on the ELAR blog, we are sharing the next short film from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. The film featured in this post was created from footage from the ‘Documentation of Paunaka‘ deposit at ELAR, deposited by ELDP grantee Swintha Danielsen.

This video shows two of the few last speakers of Paunaka, an Arawakan language of Bolivian Amazonia. The old lady María Cuasace is talking about a trip she once made, and she is conversing with Miguel Supepí. This is in fact one of the very first videos taken by the project team in Santa Rita. The other sequence is the celebration of All Saints, which is very important to the Paunaka and other people of the village. It is how they remember their deceased relatives and long-remembered forefathers. Miguel is performing the mass for the inhabitants of Santa Rita, where some other Paunaka people participate, all of them trilingual with Spanish and Bésɨro.

Thank you to Anna, Remy, Swintha, and the speakers who made this film possible! Check back here on the blog to see the rest of the short films, which will be featured on the blog (one per week) for the next several weeks!

Today on the blog, we are sharing the third video from the video installation created by Anna and Remy Sowa of Chouette Films. This film was created from footage from the Tobian (Ramari Hatohobei) deposit at ELAR, deposited by ELDP grantees Bobby and Peter Black.

On this beautiful film, Bobby shared:

The video begins with Tobi, home island of the Ramari Hatohobei community, then moves on to a group of Tobian women in its daughter community 300 miles north in Echang, Koror, Palau, who are demonstrating how to make a variety of traditional baskets and discussing their use. The video ends with Helen Reef, 40 miles east of Tobi, the community’s traditional leader.

Thank you to Anna, Remy, Bobby, Peter and the speakers who made this film possible! The rest of the films will be featured on the blog (one per week) for the next several weeks!