The American Museum of Natural History’s
Margaret Mead Travelling Film and Video Festival

Program 1: Women and Healing

Friday, November 4 at 7:00
Sunday, November 6 at 4:00

AFGHANISTAN UNVEILED

Filmed by the first team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare film explores the effects of the Taliban's repressive rule and recent U.S. military campaign on Afghani women. Shot in rural regions of the country, the filmmakers present footage of Hazara women whose lives have been decimated by recent events, and yet manage to also find moving examples of hope for the future.

(2003. 52 min.)


MADANM TI ZO (MRS. LITTLEBONES)

An intimate look into traditional health practices, this cinema-verite style film looks at mid-wife and herbal doctor Madanm Ti Zo who runs her own clinic in Jacmal, Haiti.

(2004, 60 min.)




Program 2: The Future of Food

Friday, November 11 at 7:00
Sunday, November 13 at 4:00

THE FUTURE OF FOOD is a documentary made by Jerry Garcia's widow, Deborah Koons Garcia. Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

(2003, 88 min.)




Program 3: Honoring Rouch

In celebration and memory of renowned French anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch (1917-2004).

Friday, November 18 at 7:00
Sunday, November 20 at 4:00

MARGARET MEAD: A PORTRAIT BY A FRIEND

Jean Rouch’s loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

(1978, 30 min.)


JAGUAR

Part documentary, part fiction, and part reflective commentary, JAGUAR tells the story of three young men from the Savannah of Niger who leave their homeland to seek wealth and adventure on the coast and in the cities of Ghana. Jean Rouch’s seminal film, which was the result of improvised on-screen action and then later, improvised narrative voice-over, is the story of their travels.

(1957, 92 min.)




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