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1) Elsewhere
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Tamashek
Description
An epic journey to twelve remote and rarely glimpsed locales and communities around the world. Geyrhalter films expansive vistas of desert, snow, jungle, ice, and rainforest, travels with a scooter-riding Finnish reindeer herdsman, visits the home of a Namibian couple with relational problems, ventures out to sea with a Sardinian fisherman, creating twelve twenty-minute portraits from twelve remote places on five continents.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Tibetan
Description
In Tibet's Changtang region, a clan prepares four of its men for the annual trek to Lake Tsento. Each year, these nomads, and their caravan of 160 yaks make a highly ritualized three-month trek to harvest salt for use in future bartering. After picking an auspicious day to depart, they feast, sing, tell stories, and race horses. During the trek, all is ritualized: they speak the secret language of saltmen; they pray; they observe exemplary behavior....
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Using film footage and composition notes left by the late Ogawa Shinsuke, Chinese director Peng Xiaolian shot additional film and completed the work, which colorfully yet elegantly depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red persimmon. The inhabitants of the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else,...
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