Brief description
Balopa Cultural Festival (2006), Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea.
Full description
Soanin Kilangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island in the South Pacific. He organizes the largest cultural festival ever held on the island. But some traditional leaders argue that Baluan never had culture. Culture comes from the white man and is now destroying their old tradition. Others, however, take the festival as a welcome opportunity to revolt against '70 years of cultural oppression' by Christianity. A struggle to define the past, present and future of Baluan culture erupts to the sound of thundering log drum rhythms.
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File format is mpeg4. 58 mins duration.
Winner of the ‘Intangible Culture Film Prize’ at the 12th Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film (2011).
A live streaming video is available in Reserve Online at the James Cook University, Eddie Koiki Mabo Library.Segments of the film are available on the video streaming website Vimeo (http://vimeo.com)
Data time period: 2006 to 2007
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