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SEMINAR: ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

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ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Presentation of the film "Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern" and ensuing discussion Other events...
Koriam's Law - and the dead who govern is a 2005 co-production of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies film unit, Australian National University, Canberra and Arcadia Pictures, New York. Directed and produced by Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon working in association with the anthropologist Andrew Lattas, the film runs for 110 minutes. It was awarded the RAI prize at the Royal Anthropological Institute's bi-annual film festival in 2005. The film was also screened at the 2006 American Society for Visual Anthropology conference where Gary Kildea was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

As noted by Jennifer Deger in her review of the film in TAPJA, 'Koriam's Law is a film about inner worlds, underground domains and invisible connections not the most obviously filmic material, especially if one is intent on pushing beneath the surface of exoticism and stereotypes of so-called 'cargo cults'. Yet the film succeeds in ways that are remarkably rewarding and surprisingly moving.'

Koriam's Law focuses on the Pomio Kivung, a movement sometimes labelled (and condemned) as a 'cargo cult', which first arose in 1964 in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. By involving the local elder Peter Avarea and the ethnographer Andrew Lattas in a series of discussions, punctuated by more observational interludes, the film seeks not only to treat the dynamics of the movement, yet also to explore how the people involved in the movement are seeking to reconfigure their lives and aspirations as a response to past colonial intrusions and continuing global interventions. However, the film is also a sustained reflection on the ambiguities and disconnections, as well as the limits, of ethnographic knowledge.

Gary Kildea will provide a brief introduction to the film and also engage in a discussion with the audience after the film has been screened.
Speaker(s) Gary Kildea, Ethnographic Film Unit, The Australian National University
Location Social Sciences Building Room 2.204
Contact Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
Start Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:00
End Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:00
Submitted by Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:26
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