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Dead Birds is a 1963 American documentary film by Robert Gardner about the ritual warfare cycle of the Dugum Dani people who live in the Baliem Valley in present-day Highland Papua province (then a part of Papua province known as Irian Jaya) on the western half of the island of New Guinea in Indonesia.
- Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University
- Robert Gardner
- Weyak, Laca, Pua
- Robert Gardner
Dead Birds: Directed by Robert Gardner. With Robert Gardner. An ethnographic documentary with allegorical undertones about the Dani people of Papua Barat and their social values based on an elaborate system of tribal warfare and revenge.
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- Documentary
- Robert Gardner
- 1963-10-01
Share. Robert Gardner was already recognized as an important ethnographic filmmaker by the time he premiered Dead Birds in October 1963 at Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center. Fifty years later, the film stands as a turning point in Gardner’s career and indeed in the field of visual anthropology.
23. Feb. 2023 · In 1963, a groundbreaking film titled Dead Birds was released, exploring the universal encounter with death through a Dugum Dani myth of the origins of death. The film uses a nonlinear narrative structure, following three individuals through a season of three deaths and one near-death experience.
22. März 2018 · color, 83 min, 1964, digitally remastered 2011. “Dead Birds is a film about the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem high in the mountains of West Irian. When I shot the film in 1961, the Dani had an almost classic Neolithic culture.
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- 6K
- Documentary Educational Resource
Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as ...
Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as ...
