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David Tamés
Remembering John Marshall

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Abstract:  A portrait of filmmaker and activist John Kennedy Marshall who began his career in the 1950s documenting the lives of the Ju/’hoansi people of Namibia—among the last remaining hunter- gatherers—for anthropological audiences. In the 1980s Marshall became an activist helping the Ju/’hoansi fight for land and water rights. He made important contributions to cinéma vérité filmmaking and leaves behind an extensive ethnographic film archive including over 20 films on the Ju/’hoansi.  Features interviews with Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Robert Gordon, Alexandra Eliot Marshall, Cynthia Close, Sandeep Ray, Karma Foley, Jayasinhji Jhala, and Rakhi Jhala.

Production Date:
04/01/06

Distributor:
Documentary Educational Resources
101 Morse St.
Watertown, MA  02472

Phone:
617-926-0491

Fax:
617-926-9519

Email:
docued@der.org

http://der.org/films/remembering-john-marshall.html

Running Time:
16

Medium:
DVD

Film Purpose:  to show a slightly more personal view of John Marshall, his personality and working methods.

Film Audience:  general, educational - anthropology, sociology, filmmaking, African studies

Role of the Anthropologist / Collaboration:  Alice Apley is an anthropologist and filmmaker who studied anthropological representations of the Kalahari Bushmen (including the Ju/’hoansi) as part of her graduate studies. She has worked in educational film and television as a fundraiser and in a variety of production roles and as a video production teacher for high school students. Alice holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University and currently conducts social science research for RMC Research Corporation. As her first film, Remembering John Marshall, combines her knowledge of documentary filmmaking and the Ju/'hoansi.  Although they never had the chance to meet John Marshall, she, David and the crew interviewed several of his friends and collaborators in addition to conducting research on John and studying his films.

Filmmaker:  David Tamés, MIT/Boston University;  anthropologist: Alice Apley, NYU / RMC  Research Corp.

Keywords:  John Marshall, biography, Ju/'hoansi


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