10.22. Australia's Aborigines Remember
Films for the Humanities Inc. © 1993
A video series divided into four videos.
A) Australia Down Under: Indigenous People. 48 min.
Provides an overview of the Australian Aboriginals, who have inhabited the Australian continent for over 40,000 years. White settlers have disrupted indigenous Aborigine culture but not destroyed it. This film shows contemporary Aborigine cultural expression through their unique arts, music, and dance.
B)Stories of the Dreamtime. 48 min.
Nganampa Anwernekenhe is a cultural series made by Aboriginal people for both Aboriginal and mainstream television audiences. This video tells three stories from the central region: “Bushtucker” about traditional cooking of the Perentie, a giant monitor Lizard; “Uluru Story” about Ayres Rock illustrates the cooperation between Park and Wildlife Rangers and the traditional owners of the Rock, and “Traditional Story”, a story of Emus, told in the traditional Aboriginal way.
C)Satellite Dreaming.48 min.
This program shows how Aboriginal people use television to promote and preserve their culture.
D) Benny and the Dreamers. 48 min.
An elderly traditional Aboriginal and his kinfolk recall the impact of their tribe’s fist contact with white people in the 1930s. Using extensive archival footage, this program traces the reactions of a people whose culture had survived for 40,000 years to the dramatic and irreversible changes brought by the early white settlers.
10.23. Three Worlds of Bali
60 min. Co-Production of Public Broadcasting Associated Inc. and Univ. Southern Calif. © 1981
This documentary portrays and explains the intricate Balinese cultural system by which art, religion and agriculture are integrated as part of the Balinese temple system, which controls irrigation systems of Balinese rice agriculture.Scripted by anthropologist Steven Lansing.
10.24 The Goddess and the Computer
30 min. An Inca Production © 1988
This film documents a project on the Indonesian island of Bali, by which an anthropologist and computer engineer from University of Southern California work with Balinese priests develop a computer model to prove to outside government and aid agencies that the traditional Balinese rice irrigation system is more productive and effective than the modern agricultural systems and pesticides
10.25 Black Grace: From Cannon's Creek to Jacob's Pillowq
1 hr Pacific Islanders in Communications © 2008
The story of a New Zealand Samoan modern dance group making it big with the invitation to perform at the famous venue of Jacobs Ladder, an international center for modern dance.
10.26 Time and Tide
1 hr. Wavecrest Films © 2005
Follows the return visit of a group of Tuvaluans from New Zealand to their island homeland in the center of the Pacific. Documents the changes on the island, and the severe threat of rising sea levels due to global warming that is occurring in these low luying coral atoll islands.
10.27 Polynesian Power
1 hr ESPN © 2005
Documentary about young American Samoan men and their aims to join professional American football. Two individuals are followed in detail - one from American Samoa, the other a young Samoan American from California.
10.28 Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
1 hr Pacific Islanders in Communication. © 2009
Complex development and rich meanings of Hawaiian pidgen English.
10.29 More Then Just a Rock...
34 min. Palau Division Affairs © 1998
This video show cases Palau Division Affairs of the Republican of Palau, how projects are designed to protect and preserve the cultural and traditional resources of Palau.
10.30 Heart Strings
27 min Alpha Media Corporation © 2008
Tells the story of the tradition of a Hawai'ian Ukulele maker,Kamaka and Sons Enterprises, passing the trade down three generations.
10.31 Made in Taiwan: Nathan and Oscar's Excellent Adventure
45 min. Alpha Media TV-G, New Zealand © 2009
Nathan Rarare of Maori descent and Oscar Kightley of Samoan descent investigate their genetic ancestry back 30, 000 years Polynesian origins in Taiwan. Informater, amazing and entertaining
10.32 He Hawai'i Mau (I am Hawaiian)
5 min. Lurline Wailana McGregor © 2008
A short autiobiographical sketch of one individual's Hawaiian identity.
10.33 Keao
10 min. Pacific Islander in Communications © 2009
A young Hawaiian woman perform for commercial hula, but traditional meaning and values associated with the art form lead her to reject this commercialization.
10.34 The Man On The Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific. First Footsteps
56 min Fully Underwritten by the Quantum Finacial Group in Melbourne, Australia.
This educational documentary examines the ancient settlement of the Pacific Islands.
10.35 Sign and Symbols
56 min QED Communication Inc. and Pennsylvania State University © 1992
Symbols can be the gateway for the heart and mind of ancient people. Archaeologists face challenges in trying to translate symbols found on pieces of rock in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. According to archaeologist, each symbol represented words. The Mares people in ancient time used symbols to record their stories, and the archaeologist today are trying to translate those symbols into mordent language to understand the life in ancient society.