Films/ Videos
Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits
in Nigeria. (60 min. 1991)
Abstract:
Mammy Water is a Pidgin English name for local water deities in
Southeastern Nigeria. The film documents their worship. The Water
Goddess is believed to give wealth and children; She compensates
for hardship and is sought in times of illness and need, especially
by women, led predominantly by priestesses.
Distributed by:
Berkeley
Media, Berkeley, CA
For
German version and non-theatrical distribution in Germany:
Home video/ personal use and commercial/TV distribution:
Ogbuide Film: info@sabine-jell-bahlsen.com
Reviewed by:
Eudora Chikwendu New York African Studies Association Newsletter
# 35, Spring: 9-10, and African Profiles International, May 1995:
48.
Sidney Kasfir, African Arts. January 1994: 80-82 & 96.
Andrea Nye, Feminist Collections, vol.15 (1) Fall 1993: 16.
Daniel Halperin, Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 4 (2) June
1993: 25-26.
Simon Ottenberg, American Anthropologist 93, 1991: 254-55.
Jean-Claude Muller, Commission on Visual Anthropology Review, fall
1990: 47-48.
Robert F. Thompson, Sidney Kasfir and Pamela Blakeley for University
of California Extension
(Reviews – University of California Media brochure p. 2):
Media
Center, Berkeley, Ca.
Owu: Chidi Joins the Okoroshi Secret Society. (60 min. subtitles,
1994)
Abstract:
Filmed in an Igbo town of Southeastern Nigeria, Owu illustrates
the connectedness of life, myth, religion and art, evidenced in
an annual festival and masquerade sponsored by a men’s secret
society.
Distributed by:
Ogbuide Films, New York, NY, info@sabine-jell-bahlsen.com
German co-producer and non-theatrical distributor: IWF Göttingen/Germany
Reviewed by:
Michael C. Mbabuike, Visual Anthropology, Vol.13 (4 Special Issue
on Africa) 2000.
Rory P.B. Turner, African Arts, Winter 1996: 75.
Nkechi Obiora, African Profiles International. February 1995: 50.
Donald Morales, New York African Studies Assoc. Newsletter 34, Fall
1994: 8.
Tubali: Hausa Architecture in Northern
Nigeria. (45 min. 1994)
| Entrance to the Emir’s
Palace at Daura |
Relief (close up): Killing the Snake at Daura |
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Painted domed ceiling in the Emir’s Palace at Kano
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Gidan Haruna, private home at
Zaria
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Abstract:
A film on Hausa architecture featuring various phases of construction
from mud, as well as social, political, and religious aspects of
these structures, whose history, aesthetics, and economics are explained
by builders, architects, and a museum curator.
Distributed by: Ogbuide Films, New York, NY, info@sabine-jell-bahlsen.com
Reviewed by:
Ikem S. Okoye, International Journal of African Historical Studies
32 (2-3) 1999: 482-486.
Skull Art in Papua New Guinea. (30
min. 1999).
Abstract:
Adam, an elderly man from Papua New Guinea, uses clay over a painted
human skull, to remodel a traditional skull portrait. He supplements
an ancient technique with some contemporary materials. A rare documentation
of an art form that was formerly associated with commemorating the
deceased, but also with head hunting among the Iatmul people of
the East Sepik province.
Distributed by:
Berkeley
Media, Berkeley, CA. berkeleymedia@earthlink.net
Home video/ personal use and commercial/TV distribution: Ogbuide
Film: info@sabine-jell-bahlsen.com
Reviews by:
Michael Mbabuike, Magda Vasillov, Richard Sundt and Mary Frank for
Berkeley Media.
Journal of Pacific Studies:
TV credit: BBC and PBS.
Eze Nwata - The Small King. (With
Georg Jell, 30 min. 1981)
Distributor: Ogbuide Films, NY/ Archive. info@sabine-jell-bahlsen.com
Reviewed by:
Simon Ottenberg, American Anthropologist, vol. 86, 1984: 801-802.
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