Film Screening: 'Koriam's Law and the Dead who Govern'
10/12/2010 - 15:00 - 15:00
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On Tuesday, October 12 TU Estonian Institute of Humanities, Department of
Social and Cultural Anthropology is holding a film screening of 'Koriam's
Law and the Dead who Govern' and discussion with the director of the film
Gary Kildea (Australian National University). The screening and discussion
takes place at 17:00-20:00 in room M-225 (TU Mare building, Uus-Sadama
5).Koriam's Law and the Dead who Govern' (110´ min) won the best film
prize of the RAI's International Ethnographic Film Festival in Oxford in
2005. A film about Cargo Cults in Pomio, Papua New Guinea, it was
co-directed with Andrea Simon and the Australian anthropologist Andrew
Lattas. The Pomio Kivung movement was founded in 1964 by the late Michael
Koriam Urekit, in the beautiful Jacquinot Bay area of Papua New Guinea’s
East New Britain province. The movement’s leaders are keen to show that
it has nothing to do with ‘waiting for cargo’. Over the years, Kivung
thinkers have scrutinised the revelations of missionaries for hidden codes
and truths. They have also examined forms of colonial governance -
especially money and bureaucracy - for clues to the source of white man’s
formidable power. Koriam’s central question was how to find a way back
from the ancient problems that put his people in a state of subjugation.
Gary Kildea is an ethnographic documentary film maker based in the
Anthropology Department's Ethnographic Film Unit in the College of Asia
Pacific Research at ANU. He is the director of the acclaimed 'Trobriand
Cricket' (1974) made in Papua New Guinea and 'Celso and Cora' (1983) filmed
in the Philippines.Read more about 'Koriam's Law and the Dead who Govern'.
Social and Cultural Anthropology is holding a film screening of 'Koriam's
Law and the Dead who Govern' and discussion with the director of the film
Gary Kildea (Australian National University). The screening and discussion
takes place at 17:00-20:00 in room M-225 (TU Mare building, Uus-Sadama
5).Koriam's Law and the Dead who Govern' (110´ min) won the best film
prize of the RAI's International Ethnographic Film Festival in Oxford in
2005. A film about Cargo Cults in Pomio, Papua New Guinea, it was
co-directed with Andrea Simon and the Australian anthropologist Andrew
Lattas. The Pomio Kivung movement was founded in 1964 by the late Michael
Koriam Urekit, in the beautiful Jacquinot Bay area of Papua New Guinea’s
East New Britain province. The movement’s leaders are keen to show that
it has nothing to do with ‘waiting for cargo’. Over the years, Kivung
thinkers have scrutinised the revelations of missionaries for hidden codes
and truths. They have also examined forms of colonial governance -
especially money and bureaucracy - for clues to the source of white man’s
formidable power. Koriam’s central question was how to find a way back
from the ancient problems that put his people in a state of subjugation.
Gary Kildea is an ethnographic documentary film maker based in the
Anthropology Department's Ethnographic Film Unit in the College of Asia
Pacific Research at ANU. He is the director of the acclaimed 'Trobriand
Cricket' (1974) made in Papua New Guinea and 'Celso and Cora' (1983) filmed
in the Philippines.Read more about 'Koriam's Law and the Dead who Govern'.