Bontoc eulogy /

This docudrama examines the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, focusing on the filmmaker's grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the 1,100 tribal natives displayed as anthropological "specimens" in the notorious Philippine Village exhibit. A unique fusion of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Independent Television Service
Other Authors:	Fuentes, Marlon (Screenwriter, Researcher, Photographer, Narrator, director of photography,), Yearian, Bridget (Researcher, Photographer, director of photography,), Schneider, Katie (Researcher), Domingo, Reuben (director of photography.), Hafalla, Tommy (director of photography.), Manley, Christopher (director of photography.), Burkholder, James (Photographer), Obusan, Enrico (Photographer), Quin, Douglas, 1956- (composer (expression))
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	New York, NY : Cinema Guild, [1995]
Series:	Academic Video Online
Subjects:	Louisiana Purchase Exposition > (1904 : > Saint Louis, Mo.) Louisiana Purchase Exposition Human zoos > Missouri > Saint Louis > History. Indigenous peoples > Philippines. Bontoks (Philippine people) Igorot (Philippine people) Filipino Americans. Philippines > Social life and customs. Philippines > History. Manners and customs. Cultural Characteristics Exhibitions ethnologiques > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire. Igorot (Peuple des Philippines) Américains d'origine philippine. Philippines > Histoire. Mœurs et coutumes. Filipino Americans Human zoos Indigenous peoples Manners and customs Missouri > Saint Louis Philippines Documentaries and Factual Films Webcast documentary film. Documentary films Experimental films Feature films Historical films History Internet videos Nonfiction films Historical films. Experimental films. Documentary films. Feature films. Nonfiction films. Internet videos. Films historiques. Films expérimentaux. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction. Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	This docudrama examines the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, focusing on the filmmaker's grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the 1,100 tribal natives displayed as anthropological "specimens" in the notorious Philippine Village exhibit. A unique fusion of rare archival images, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, Bontoc Eulogy is an original and innovative investigation of memory and the spectacle of the "Other" in turn-of-the-century America
Item Description:	"Based on ideas and creative materials originally developed by Marlon Fuentes & Bridget Yearian."--Credits "Archival footage from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania"--Credits Live-action and iconography. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 57 min.)) : sound, black and white
Playing Time:	00:56:49
Awards:	Black Maria Film-Video Festival, Jurors' Citation Award, 2004 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, Nominated, 1997
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Reuben Domingo, Marlon Fuentes, Tommy Hafalla, Chris Manley, Bridget Yearian ; still photography, James Burkholder, Marlon Fuentes, Enrico Obusan, Bridget Yearian ; music composed and created by Douglas Quin ; researchers, Marlon Fuentes, Katie Schneider, Bridget Yearian.