SPECIAL FILM SCREENING
A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT THE FILMS OF JOHN BISHOP
2005 American Anthropological Association
Annual Meetings , Washington, DC
Time: Thursday, December 1st, 7 - 10 PM
Location: Ballroom C and D in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley
Road, NW (The hotel is adjacent to the Woodley Park/Zoo/Adams Morgan metro
stop on the Red Line)
The Society for Visual Anthropology invites you to a retrospective screening
of films by John Bishop, spanning his 30 year career in ethnographic film
production. The occasion for the event is the presentation of a 2005
Lifetime Achievement Award from SVA for his contributions to the field.
John Bishop will be in attendance at the screening to introduce the films
and answer audience questions. You do not have to be registered for the
meetings to attend the screenings.
The screenings precede the panel discussion, "Phantoms, Festivals, Dances,
Anthropology, and Other Blues: A Conversation with John Bishop, the
Filmmaker," chaired by Guha Shankar, AFC, on Friday, December 2nd at the
meetings.
Please check the meeting schedule on the AAA website for any changes to the
program: http://aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm. Additional information about
these films, including where and how to order copies, can be found at
www.media-generation.com.
Scheduled screenings:
Tango in the Toilet (1998) 3 min - A video interpretation of Victoria Marks’
architecturally inspired choreography celebrating the triumph of youth over
the gravity of place.
Dalai Lama's Birthday (2000) 6 min (first public screening) - The feeling
and activity around the Boudhanath stupa on the morning of the Dalai Lama’s
birthday in 2000.
Hosay Trinidad (1998) 45 min - Ethnographic documentary about the
creolization of Indo-Islamic cultural performances in the Caribbean.
Hand Play (1986) 7 min - A documentary about minkeys and lurmeys, a
menagerie of hand creatures created by a nine-year-old boy.
Red Top Snuff (1999) 9 min (first public screening)- - About the last
tobacco mill making snuff in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts, shot in
1975 and rescued from the archive 24 years later.
Himalayan Herders - Ritual & Religion (1997) 20 min excerpt - An
ethnographic portrait of Melemchi, a temple village in the Nepal Himalaya.
The DVD is programmed so that in addition to viewing the whole film, themes
within the film can be viewed as excerpts.
Yoyo Man (1978) 12 min - A visit with Nemo Concepcion, one of the first
Duncan yo-yo demonstrators, who tells how a traditional Filipino toy became
part of American children's repertoire.
New England Dances (1990) 30 min - A spirited visit to some old dances,
focusing on the callers and musicians who make them happen. It features Phil
Johnson calling squares in Lebanon, Maine with the Maple Sugar band; John
Campbell and Norman MacEachern at the Canadian Club in Watertown,
Massachusetts; William Chaisson and Joe Cormier at the French American
Victory Club in Waltham, Massachusetts; Arcade Richard and Victor Albert in
Leominster, Massachusetts doing quadrilles; and Charley Mitchell at the Blue
Goose in Northport, Maine doing contra dances. Also included are some
bravura dance sequences by Irish step dancers Liam Harney and Deirdre
Goulding, and Cape Breton step dancer Harvey Beaton.
The Land Where the Blues Began (1979) 16 min excerpt - Film about the
musical and societal origins of the blues. This section includes railroad
crews and levee camp veterans. The fieldwork for the film informed Alan
Lomax s book of the same name fifteen years later.
Indulgence at La Cueva (2005) 3 min (first public screening) - Like
Shavasana, the relaxed pose that ends a yoga practice, this metaphoric
journey through the mangroves eases the viewer back into the stream of life.
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