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Author Archives: OASIS

Ajayu

March 16, 2011

Description: Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 29 minutes

Turix Videorevista #5

March 16, 2011

Description: When someone makes a brief visit in the Yucatan Peninsula, it is called a visit of a “turix.” When one sees a dragonfly, it is considered good luck. The video-magazine Turix is like the dragonfly; it is an open … Read more

Verano De La Senora Forbes, El

March 16, 2011

Description: Written by Nobel Prize winning Gabriel García Márquez, this is a wickedly black comedy about two children plotting to kill their authoritarian nanny, reminiscent of the work of the legendary film maker Luis Buñuel. Directed by Humberto Hermosillo. Part … Read more

Face De L’Ombre, La /The Face Of The Shadow

March 16, 2011

Description: Milka has known Alexis since they were children, and loved him for as long as she can remember. When Alexis falls in love with and decides to marry another woman, Milka makes a deal with a mysterious stranger with … Read more

Animaquiladora

March 16, 2011

Description: Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 60 minutes

Lolo

March 16, 2011

YAKWA: O BANQUETE DOS ESPIRITOS

March 16, 2011

Description: Documenting the most important ritual of the Enauêne-Nawê Indians, the seven months every year that the spirits of the dead are venerated with offerings of food, song, and dance so they will protect the community and bless it with … Read more

BRAZIL

March 16, 2011

Description: This film highlights some of Brazil’s most impressive features. From economics and industry to geography and culture, this documentary serves as an informative introduction to a country unlike any other. It focuses on major cities like Sao Paolo, Rio … Read more

BUENAVISTA VASE, THE: ARCHEOLOGY VS. LOOTING

March 16, 2011

Description: The Buenavista Base was produced in 1994 at Duke University Museum of Art for the exhibit Painting the Maya Universe. Dorie Reents Budent, curator of the exhibit and curator at DUMA explains in this video the importance of this … Read more

Maya, The

March 16, 2011

Description:  Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 52 minutes

Central America Close-Up

March 16, 2011

Description: This film contains two episodes from The Children of the Earth Series. GUATEMALA: Natividad Hernández is a 14-year-old Maya girl, called “Nati” by her friends. Her isolated mountain village retains many traditions which strengthen its sense of identity. But … Read more

Nazarin

March 16, 2011

Description: Copies: 2 (DVD) Length: 59 minutes

DEUS E O DIABO NA TERRA DO SOL

March 16, 2011

Description: This richly allegorical film, set amid bandits and prophets in arid Northeastern Brazil of the early twentieth century, is a classic work of cinema novo by one of Brazil’s premier directors, Gláuber Rocha. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 120 minutes

Raza

March 16, 2011

El

March 16, 2011

Salud

March 16, 2011

 

FLIGHT OF PEDRO PAN, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: Experience the heartache and uncertainty of the 1960s flight of more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States. The children of Operation Pedro Pan share their personal stories of the sacrifice, survival, broken hearts and new beginnings … Read more

SOY CUBA (I AM CUBA)

March 16, 2011

Description: A visually stunning film that was made in Cuba between 1961 and 1964 by the acclaimed Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying). The camera work is amazing in this propaganda epic that portrays four vignettes of Cuba … Read more