29.-30.1.2016
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MOVIES
WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES

ROARING ABYSS

Etiopie, Velká Británie, Španělsko, 2015, 86 min
Quino Piňero
29.01.2016 20:45

If you go out around music bars and venues in Addis Ababa, you will enjoy a very characteristic scene, but if you want to get an idea of the different sounds from the country, you will get a very narrow view of it; in some places some Amhara or Gurage music may be found but ... what about the rest? There are more than eighty different nationalities and cultures spread all along the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia. Nowadays many of the traditional instruments in Ethiopia have been replaced for electronic keyboards, and many local traditional bands have been reduced to a front(wo)man singing along to a keyboard which plays beats and melodies all in one. But there are still some musicians spread along the country playing the music they learned from their fathers and mothers; intruments like the Krar, Washent, Masinko or Kabero, are nowadays roaring and bouncing against the hills of this land full of contrasts and diversity. In order to unveil the music universe and keep a record of this endangered music tradition, the Roaring Abyss team spent two years performing field recordings around every corner of Ethiopia, documented in this audiovisual poem.

Quino Piñero is a sound engineer and film maker who started his nomadic life at the age of nineteen, always carrying his audio recorder and camera, hence has his work the personal signature of a sound journey, both on music albums and audiovisual pieces. Nowadays Quino Piñero is based in London working as a live sound engineer, while developing new documentary projects through his audiovisual platform SolySombra Recordings.

Language of dialogues: Amharic, Tigrigna, Nuer, Kaffigna, Harari, Oromifa, English
Languege of subtitles: English, Czech

Production: Quino Piñero
Camera: Israel Seoane, Quino Piñero, Gonzalo Guajardo, Jonathan Le Pechon
Script: Quino Piñero
Edit: Guiye Comín, Quino Piñero
 

MARIE´S DICTIONARY

USA, 2014, 9 min
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
29.01.2016 18:25

This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive.

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is a filmmaker, musician and composer. His work has been featured on PBS, The New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Outside Magazine, exhibited at The Smithsonian and screened in theaters and festivals worldwide. He has directed and produced numerous award-winning films. He lives in a small coastal town in Northern California with his wife and two children.

Language of dialogues: English, Wukchumni language
Language of subtitles: English, Czech

Production: Global Oneness Project
Camera: Vanessa Carr, Adam Loften
Script: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Edit: Adam Loften

THE LAST REFUGE: FOOD STORIES FROM MYANMAR TO COFFS HARBOUR

Austrálie, 2015, 25 min
Mandy Hughes
29.01.2016 18:35

This documentary depicts the food stories of people from Myanmar, now residing in the regional town of Coffs Harbour, Australia. More than 300 people from Myanmar have settled in Coffs Harbour. Some of these settlers have spent more than 20 years in refugee camps. They have fled their homeland with little more than their memories and their stories. But these memories allow their traditions to continue.

Mandy Hughes is currently a PhD student of Anthropology at Southern Cross University, Australia. She has experience working in community, international development, education and media and NOG. This is her first independently produced documentary and this project was made in collaboration with the Myanmar community Coffs Harbour.

Language of dialogues: English, Burmese
Language of subtitles: English, Czech

Production, director, camera, edit, script: Mandy Hughes

Festivals (selection):
Viscult Festival of Visual Culture, Finland, 2015
Ethnografilm, France, 2016
Coulourfest, Australia, 2016