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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sailing a Sinking Sea: Exploring the Culture of the Moken People
  name:
    name part: Documentary Educational Resources (Firm),$4dst
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm),$4dst
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Asian Studies.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: Sailing a Sinking Sea is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are a seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia, traditionally spending eight months out of the year in thatch-roofed wooden boats. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system revolves around water.. Sailing a Sinking Sea weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices. As a viewer you will swim under the sea past fishes and mermaids, sail boats across turquoise waters, land on 13 different islands, step inside sea shanties on stilts, delve into the minds of shamans, become possessed through the worship of sea gods, dance between lovers and emerge drenched in Moken mythology.. “This loving impressionistic tribute is [...] an outlier in contemporary cinema, springing as it does from the 1930s ethnographic cinema of Robert Flaherty as well as the later visions of Jean Rouch in the '60s and Robert Gardner (who's cited in the credits) in the '70s and '80s.”. — Carson Lund, Slant Magazine. Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2015. Rural Route Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, 2015. Environmental Film Festival, Australia, 2015.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Film
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2015.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In English
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Foreign language films
  subject:
    topic: Asian Studies
  subject:
    topic: Documentaries
  identifier: 1176578 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160825
    record change date: 20260324182928.4
    record identifier: in00003752787
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng