What is the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival?

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The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the United States, encompassing a broad spectrum of work, from indigenous community media to experimental nonfiction. The Festival is distinguished by its outstanding selection of titles, which tackle diverse and challenging subjects, representing a range of issues and perspectives, and by the forums for discussion with filmmakers and speakers.

The Festival was founded by the American Museum of Natural History in 1977, in honor of pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead on her seventy-fifth birthday and her fiftieth year at the Museum. A film festival represented an especially apt form with which to celebrate Mead's life, as she was one of the first anthropologists to recognize the significance of film for fieldwork. From 1936 to 1938, working among the Balinese with Gregory Bateson and cinematographer Jane Belo, Mead produced "Trance and Dance in Bali," "Learning to Dance in Bali," and "Karba's First Years." She also produced films that examined child rearing from a cross-cultural perspective, including "Bathing Babies in Three Cultures." The Festival occasionally screens Mead's films.

Calendar

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NOVEMBER 3

Le Frak Theater

7:00 P.M.
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
(51 min.)
Program F1

NOVEMBER 4

Kaufman Theater

6:30 P.M.
Science & Cinema I
Program F2

8:30 P.M.
Children of the Decree
(52 min.)
Program F3

Linder Theater

6:45 P.M.
Animated Visions
(64 min.)
Program F4

8:45 P.M.
Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)
(70 min.)
Program F5

NOVEMBER 5

Kaufman Theater

12:00 P.M.
Dinosaurs on Film
Program F6

1:45 P.M.
Darwin's Nightmare
(107 min.)
Program F7

4:30 P.M.
Children of Beslan
(60 min.)
Program F8

6:30 P.M.
States of Unbelonging
(63 min.)
Program F9

8:30 P.M.
Sisters in Law
(104 min.)
Program F10

Linder Theater

1:00 P.M.
Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
(26 min.)
The Concrete Revolution
(62 min.)
Program F11

3:15 P.M.
Home
(85 min.)
Program F12

6:00 P.M.
New Media/New Forms
Program F12

8:00 P.M.
Lormen
(4 min.)
Naomi's Corset
(57 min.)
Program F14

NOVEMBER 6

Kaufman Theater

1:30 P.M.
Music Palace
(9 min.)
Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image
(9 min.)
Program F15

3:45 P.M.
Sentenced to Marriage
(65 min.)
Program F16

5:45 P.M.
Land Mines: A Love Story
(73 min.)
Program F17

8:15 P.M.
Awake Zion
(60 min.)
(Closing Night Film)
Program F18

Linder Theater

1:45 P.M.
Russian Documentaries
Amazons
(24 min.)
Tiny Katerina
(24 min.)
Wait
(40 min.)
Program F19

4:00 P.M.
Science and Cinema II
Program F20

6:30 P.M.
The Moon and the Son
(28 min.)
Phantom Limb
(28 min.)
Vault Keys
(6 min.)
Program F21

NOVEMBER 12

Kaufman Theater

12:30 P.M.
Children of the Decree
(52 min.)
Program F22

2:00 P.M.
Awake Zion
(60 min.)
Program F23

4:00 P.M.
Animated Visions
Program F24

Linder Theater

12:45 P.M.
Home
(85 min.)
Program F25

2:30 P.M.
Landmines: A Love Story
(73 min.)
Program F26

4:00 P.M.
States of Unbelonging
(63 min.)
Program F27

NOVEMBER 13

Kaufman Theater

12:30 P.M.
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
(51 min.)
Program F28

2:00 P.M.
Original Child Bomb
(57 min.)
Program F29

3:45 P.M.
Reel New Orleans
Program F30