[Anthropgrad] Screening of Hangai Herds

[Natasha Fijn]

VISUAL CULTURE FILM SCREENING

THURSDAY  9 AUGUST, AT 12.30 PM

OLD CANBERRA HOUSE THEATRETTE

all welcome, bring your lunch

Hangai Herds

Natasha Fijn,  90 minutes, 2007

 

Hangai Herds is a three-part observational documentary made by Natasha
Fijn as an integral part of her PhD research on the influence of
domesticated animals on Mongolian herding culture.  The film follows
several generations of a family of nomadic herders over changing seasons
in the remote mountains and valleys where their yaks, cattle, sheep and
goats and horses graze.  The training and racing of horses is important
as a symbol of pride and prestige.  The daily activities of milking and
herding demonstrate how the people and their domesticated animals live
in a tightly inter-woven existence, their lives inextricably linked from
birth until death.