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Ethnographic Film Series
Cailleach
Directed by Rosie Reed Hillman (2014) - Short film/biography - 14 mins
Morag, 86, lives alone at the end of a track looking out to sea on her croft on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, with her three cats and twelve sheep. Morag has lived there her whole life, following five generations of the family who came before her. Cailleach is a portrait of Morage and her simple and peaceful life as she contemplates her next chapter, shares her unique sense of independence and the connection she has to her wild island home.
The Shepherds of Berneray
Directed by Jack Shea, featuring John Ferguson (1981) - Documentary - 56 mins
In 1980, Jack Shea and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides. Over the course of 18 months they documented the everyday lives and struggles of the crofters they lived among, whom where even then a vanishing breed. The film is in English and Gaelic.
This carefully observed documentary by filmmakers Jack Shea and Allen Moore is a poetic ethnographic film. It follows the rhythm of life on a wind-swept island in the Outer Hebrides through the four seasons. In the filmmakers' observation of the day-to-day struggles of a vanishing society, we see the deep-time legacy of their kind. The film is in English and Gaelic.
- Hosted by
- Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- MacRobert Building
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Free event, no booking required.