Police Tapes; Video in the Villages; Video Cannibalism

Police Tapes; Video in the Villages; Video Cannibalism

documentary, NYC, video, police, ethnographic film

Compilation tape of documentary and ethnographic film for teaching. The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. Video in the Villages organizes indigenous workshops in training and production. Founded in 1987, the project began with the introduction of video in indigenous communities that produced documentaries. In Video Cannibalism, The Video in the Villages project introduces video among the Enauênê Nauê Indians, a group still isolated in the north of Mato Grosso.

Alan and Susan Raymond; Vincent Carelli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxT9hEL5l-8

https://store.der.org/video-in-the-villages-presents-itself-p295.aspx

1976; 2002; 2009

Video in the Villages

NEW YORK CITY IN 1976 WAS BANKRUPT AND THE BRONX WAS BURNING. Alan and Susan Raymond, experimenting with Sony PortaPak video equipment, ventured into the most dangerous neighborhood and captured it all. In dramatically raw scenes, the officers of the city’s highest crime precinct, the 44th in the South Bronx, let the filmmakers in on every secret of society.. At the station house and in the patrol car, cops speak candidly about the role of policing a neighborhood living with constant levels of rage and frustration due to poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, drugs and street crime. -- Video Verite: The Films of Alan and Susan Raymond

Since the 1980s, the Video in the Villages' project has encouraged the encounter of the Amazonian Indians with their images. The project's proposal is to turn video into a tool that will enable the expression of their identity, reflecting their vision about themselves and about the world. While providing the indigenous communities with video equipment, the project has stimulated image and information exchange among the nations. Initially the training of Indian video-makers was done village-by-village, providing records for their own use. Today, through national and regional workshops, they learn and discuss together ways to present their reality, for their own people and for the world. The documentaries develop issues that are considered important by their communities. The project's collection includes a series of documentaries produced by the team of trainers and by indigenous video-makers. --DER

Video is introduced to the Enauênê Nauê Indians, a group still isolated in the North of Mato Grosso. An outgoing group, they respond with a surprising high-spirited performance that includes a good measure of clowning around and a re-enactment of an attack they suffered at the hands of their neighbors, the Cinta-Larga, not long ago. After growing accustomed to watching movies on video, they decide to produce their own. --VDB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM6t-E9pp50

90 mins; 10 mins ; 17 mins

The Raymonds; Vincent Cerello, Alan and Susan Raymond

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