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ISSUE: vol. 21, no.5 October 2005

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EXHIBITIONS

How Art Made the World - trail to coincide with BBC series; Body arts (permanent); Wilfred Thesiger's Iraq, 1949-1958: Photographs of travel (to 15.1.2006). Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP, tel. +44 (0)1865 270927, http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk

Pacific pattern: An exhibition of photographs by Glenn Jowitt (Clore Education Centre, Nov- Dec 2005, http://www.pacificpattern.com); Throne of weapons (to 30.10.05); Enlightenment; The Sainsbury African Gallery (permanent). The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, tel. +44 (0)207 323 8299 (information desk); http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/index.html

African Worlds permanent exhibition; Centenary Gallery, Environment Room, West African Textiles. Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ; tel. +44 (0)20 8699 1872; http://www.horniman.ac.uk

  OCTOBER 2005

7-13 Oct 2005 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Contact: Asano Fujiko, YIDFF Organising Committee Office , 2-3-25 Hatago-machi, Yamagata City 990-8540 Japan; entry2005@yidff.jp; http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff

11 Oct 2005 at 19:00 Koriam's Law - and the Dead Who Govern, Winning Film from the 9th RAI Film Festival, by Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon, Australia 2005, 110mins. In the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre of University College London. (enter via the main quad on Gower Street, 150 m South of Euston Square tube station, opposite the Cruciform Hospital Building; follow the signs, proceeding to the 3rd floor of the main building's South Cloisters). Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Gary Kildea, and Dr. Edward Schieffelin, UCL. On behalf of PocketVisions we invite those who are interested to meet in advance at 18:30 in the Housman Senior Common Room for a pre-film drink/chat (again in the main building, ground floor of the North Cloisters, near the entrances to the dept. of physics and the main library).
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13 Oct 2005 at 18:00 Koriam's Law - and the Dead Who Govern, Winning Film from the 9th RAI Film Festival, by Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon, Australia 2005, 110mins. At the London School of Economics, The Old Building, 3rd floor, room A316 (use main entrance at Houghten Street, via Aldwych); a LSE "Filmmakers and their Anthropological Films Seminar" http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm

In Koriam's Law Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Motivated by their lively dialogues the film sets out to place that most misconstrued of cultural phenomena, the "cargo-cult", in a universalising light. The Pomio Kivung Movement was founded in 1964 by a local leader called Koriam. Koriam's Law concerns itself with the contemporary works and understandings of the Pomio Kivung. The movement's leaders are keen to show that it has nothing to do with 'waiting for cargo'. Rather, its mission is to prepare the way for the devoutly wished 'Exchange' and, at the same time, to organise for a better society in the here and now.

Gary Kildea was born in 1948 in Sydney and has worked professionally with film since 1965. He belongs to the generation of Australian filmmakers (like Ian Dunlop, Dennis O¹Rourke, Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson), who inspired each other and worked closely together on numerous projects. Gary Kildea is a teacher at the Ethnographic Film Unit of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Gary worked extensively in Papua New Guinea. Films: Bugla Yunggu (1972); Bilong Living Bilong Ol (1973); Trobriand Cricket (1974); Where Do We Go From Here? (1976); Ileksen (1978); Celso and Cora (1983); Valencia Diary (1992); Man Of Strings (1998); Koriam¹s Law (2005)

18-21 Oct 2005 Can oral history make objects speak? Annual conference of the ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICME). Nafplion, Greece. Contact: icme.icom.museum.

21-23 Oct 2005 Bedrohte Lebenswelten: Eine Herausforderung aus medizinanthropologischer Sicht. Kassel. http://www.agem-ethnomedizin.de.