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For more than 10 years, Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich has been returning to the homeland of his parents to observe and record the transformation of Indonesia in the turbulent years of economic and cultural globalization. The Dafilms portal presents all of the three parts of his famous documentary trilogy, including the latest film Position among the Stars. On the backdrop of the tension in Indonesian society, Helmrich’s camera follows the Sjamsuddin family living their daily lives of work and worries, mutual love and hatred. In the week from May 21, you can watch the first two parts of the trilogy; The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon; for free.
Industrial Britain
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Robert Joseph Flaherty
1931 /
United Kingdom
/ 22 min
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The film developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of Robert Flaherty. Flaherty was an anthropologist-cum-filmmaker who shot to worldwide prominence with Nanook of the North (1922), a documentary that detailed the hardships of Eskimo life. Soured by failure in Hollywood and inspired by the high seriousness of early Soviet cinema, Flaherty exchanged the exoticism of his previous work for an appreciation of Britain's industrial workers. Flaherty's intuitive way of working - he refused to write a script and instead filled reels of film with things that interested him, from static shots of Saltash Bridge to electricity pylons - proved unacceptably extravagant for a government agency. Flaherty was hired and it was left to Edgar Anstey to edit Flaherty's fragmentary impressions into a coherent whole. Hence, the grandeur of Flaherty's imagery was accompanied by an assertive, sociologically-minded editorialising which was temperamentally at odds with its Canadian mentor. Almost by accident, the basic mode of documentary cinema in Britain had been created.
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| Director | Robert Joseph Flaherty |
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| Dir. of Photography | Robert Flaherty |
| Editing | Edgar Anstey |
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| Duration | 22 min |
| Year | 1931 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Colour | Black & White |
| Tags | classics, industry, poetic, society, work |
| Production |
Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
Country: United Kingdom |
| Distribution |
BFI
BFI
Country: United Kingdom |
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