Catalogue des films de « John K. Marshall »

Part 5 By 1992, Namibian independence is attracting unprecedented levels of international aid for the Ju/'hoansi, but people complain that the development foundation no longer supports their farms. DEATH BY MYTH documents the shift in policy from...

Part 2 In 1978, after a twenty-year separation, John Marshall is reunited with Oma and !U's family. Like a majority of Ju'hoansi, they have settled at Tjum!kui, an administrative post established by the South Africans who govern the territory of...

Part 4 After twelve decades of colonial rule, South West Africa is about to become the independent nation of Namibia and people are looking forward to democratic rule. Members of the newly formed, Ju'hoan Farmers' Co-op travel throughout white...

Part 3 Ju'hoan farming communities multiply during the 1980s only to face a new threat. The Department of Nature Conservation wants to create a game reserve on Ju'hoan territory. People will be forbidden to raise livestock or crops. Instead,...

Intimate film going to the discovery of an Algerian whose passion is music. This is like an umbilical c The film describes N’ai’s life, a ‘Kung San woman of the desert of Kalahari, region of Namibia in Southeast Africa. The film includes...

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who...

In 1958, with assistance from the Marshalls, a group of Ju/'hoansi returned home to Nyae Nyae after several years as unpaid, captive laborers on a farm. One woman, whose husband had escaped the farm and left her behind, had a child with another...

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance, without the stimulus of dancing, in an attempt to cure her. Sha//ge lives but the baby is stillborn.

This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of Gunda, and her great-uncle Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship," a Ju'hoan kin relationship which provides opportunities for casual intimacy, emotional release, and...