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that nurtured them.<br />
In the current age of wars and turmoil, this<br />
is a relevant and uplifting story of lasting<br />
traditions that are meaningful in the<br />
modern world with values that potentially<br />
can inspire us and help us transcend our<br />
global challenges.<br />
Award<br />
� Silver Palm Award, Mexico<br />
International Film Festival, <strong>2012</strong><br />
Item no. : KV03720823<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 60 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 282.00<br />
I I DREAM DREAM OF OF OF MUMMERS<br />
MUMMERS<br />
MUMMERS<br />
By Adela Peeva<br />
I Dream of Mummers is a story about a<br />
custom, called kukeri, in which masked<br />
people dance at the end of Winter and the<br />
beginning of Spring. The custom's origins<br />
are hidden far back in the past — a<br />
tradition that has be<strong>com</strong>e part of the<br />
history of an entire nation. It is found in<br />
many places in Bulgaria, but here, in the<br />
village of Sushitsa, it has almost<br />
<strong>com</strong>pletely preserved its authenticity and<br />
can still be seen as it was performed<br />
centuries ago.<br />
For people here, this is the biggest feast of<br />
the year, and today, on its eve, the entire<br />
village is preparing for the celebration.<br />
Bells are tinkling, costumes and masks<br />
are taken out of drawers and attics.<br />
Everything looks just as it did in an old<br />
newsreel found in the National Film<br />
Archives. In 1942 — more than 60 years<br />
ago — cameras filmed the same<br />
celebration in the same village. Here the<br />
tradition is handed down from generation<br />
to generation, from father to son, and<br />
when shown this archival footage, some<br />
people in the village recognized their<br />
fathers and grandfathers. One man<br />
recognized his father and another saw his<br />
grandfather as a young man with curly<br />
mustache.<br />
This is a film about a small village and its<br />
inhabitants, about an ancient tradition that<br />
they have preserved almost intact to this<br />
day, and about a friendship as undying as<br />
the tradition itself.<br />
Awards<br />
� Ashgate Audience Film Prize, RAI<br />
International Festival of Ethnographic<br />
Film, London, 2011<br />
� Preservation of Spiritual Heritage<br />
Award, International Festival of<br />
Ethnological Film, Serbia, 2011<br />
� Best Bulgarian Film, International<br />
Mountain Film Festival, Bulgaria,<br />
2011<br />
Item no. : PH03790827<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 27 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 252.00<br />
JATHILAN: JATHILAN: TRANCE TRANCE AND AND<br />
AND<br />
POSSESSION POSSESSION POSSESSION IN IN JAVA<br />
JAVA<br />
By Robert Lemelson<br />
Practiced in Java for centuries, Jathilan is<br />
a folk dance that uses the power of music<br />
and dance to channel powerful and<br />
sometimes terrifying forces. Led by a<br />
spiritual guide and a whip-bearing<br />
ringleader, a group of dancers ride woven<br />
horses in rhythmic unison until they are<br />
entered by spirits. Once possessed they<br />
engage in a range of self-mortification<br />
behaviors until safely emerging from their<br />
altered state, left with no memory of the<br />
event and no lingering ill effects.<br />
The film <strong>com</strong>bines footage of a number of<br />
Jathilan performances with interviews with<br />
dancers, spiritual leaders, anthropologists,<br />
and enthusiasts. This extraordinary<br />
practice be<strong>com</strong>es more than just<br />
spectacle as Jathilan is contextualized<br />
within broader processes of Indonesian<br />
historical, political and social change and<br />
the viewer is provided a window into the<br />
subjective experiences of those who<br />
participate. Multiple interpretations of<br />
Jathilan's significance ultimately emerge,<br />
from an empirical proof of spiritual<br />
presence, to a strategy of <strong>com</strong>munity<br />
building, to a resistant expression of folk<br />
identity.<br />
Item no. : HR03650828<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 27 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 167.00<br />
LOVER LOVER AND AND THE THE BELOVE BELOVED,<br />
BELOVE BELOVE D,<br />
THE: THE: A A A JOURNEY JOURNEY INTO<br />
INTO<br />
TANTRA TANTRA<br />
TANTRA<br />
By Andy Lawrence<br />
A documentary feature film about one<br />
man's journey across northern India and<br />
his search for enlightenment. Rajive<br />
McMullen, a history teacher suffering from<br />
a debilitating illness, makes the painful<br />
journey into the heart of Tantra, searching<br />
for meaning in holy shrines, <strong>com</strong>ing close<br />
to death in cremation grounds and<br />
enjoying the chaos of the Aghori seekers.<br />
This film offers dramatic insight into Tantrik<br />
ideas about the life cycle, particularly<br />
death, and contributes much to our<br />
understanding of how we seek knowledge<br />
and how we die. The Lover and The<br />
Beloved also represents a realistic attempt<br />
to understand both the practice and<br />
illusive theory behind Indian Tantrism, and<br />
is intended to challenge widespread<br />
Western misinterpretations of this system<br />
of thought. Along the way we visit<br />
Kamakhya Devi in Assam and Tarapith in<br />
West Bengal, two of the most important<br />
centres of Tantrik Hinduism.<br />
Reviews<br />
� "...The Lover and the Beloved<br />
captures the atmosphere of this kind<br />
of milieu extremely well and I found it<br />
genuinely <strong>com</strong>pelling viewing." -<br />
Jonathan Parry, LSE (author of Death<br />
in Banaras)<br />
� "...dazzled, moved, shaken,<br />
engaged... the evocation of a certain<br />
and wonderfully wierd India is<br />
perfect." - Lee Siegal, (Pulitzer Prize<br />
nominee and author of Net of Magic:<br />
Wonders and Deceptions in India)<br />
Item no. : WH03720829<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 70 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 282.00<br />
RURAL<br />
RETURN RETURN TO TO THE THE BROUCK BROUCK:<br />
BROUCK :<br />
THE THE FENLAND, FENLAND, 40 40 YEAR YEARS YEAR YEAR S<br />
ON<br />
ON<br />
By Colette Piault<br />
Forty years after the production of The<br />
Fenland (Le Brouck) <strong>com</strong>es a follow up<br />
about the Audomarois Fenland.<br />
Return to the Brouck (Retour au Brouck)<br />
Set in the natural environment of northern<br />
France, criss-crossed with water ways,<br />
market gardening as well as breeding<br />
remain the only productive activities.<br />
Nevertheless, the number of fenlanders<br />
has seriously diminished from 200 farms<br />
in the 1970 to 40 in 2010. Other elements<br />
are now intervening such as ecology,<br />
preservation and development like the<br />
Natural Regional Park and the Romelaere<br />
Natural Reserve, or leisure activities like<br />
waterfowl hunting, fishing and tourism.<br />
Through images and words Return to the<br />
Brouck expresses this new reality,<br />
confronting the actors of the past - young<br />
fenlanders of the 70s - with the present.<br />
Juxtaposing the images of the past with<br />
those of 2010. The core of the film still<br />
remains, as in the 70s, the vivid problem<br />
of the present and the future of the<br />
Audomarois Fenland and its inhabitants.<br />
Item no. : HU03650831<br />
Format : DVD (Color, Black and<br />
White, French with<br />
English subtitles)<br />
Duration : 55 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 305.00<br />
SCIENCE<br />
BAILEY'S BAILEY'S BIG BIG BACKYAR<br />
BACKYARD:<br />
BACKYAR D:<br />
AIR AIR & & WIND WIND<br />
WIND<br />
Bailey's Big Backyard is based on the<br />
premise that the whole world is our<br />
backyard.This groundbreaking K-3<br />
science education series features<br />
animated characters that interact and<br />
experience the real world. Bailey, and<br />
adventurous and inquisitive kid and his<br />
curiosity leads him to explore the world<br />
withe the help of his two friends Boggs, a<br />
mischievous frog and Maggie the magical<br />
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