About the Event
Screening of “Who Killed 4th Ward” (James Blue)
Screening of “To Live with Herds” (MacDougall)
Saturday, March 7, 7:00 p.m.
Who Killed the Fourth Ward? A Non-fiction Mystery in Three Parts (US,1977)
This day is dedicated to the Rice Media Center’s focus on the sociological and the anthropological in film. Brian Huberman will host a screen excerpts from Who Killed the Fourth Ward? A Non-fiction Mystery in Three Parts (1977) – a film he made with James Blue, an exploration of the crisis in Houston’s historic Freedman’s Town, a crisis that roiled in the 1970s and continues today. The film exemplifies the merging of experimental documentary and activism that Blue pursued. Alongside this film we will screen To Live with Herds, an ethnographic film made by Judith and David MacDougall during his time at the Rice Media Center, a film about the Jie, a pastoral herding society in northern Uganda.
To Live with Herds
Directed by David and Judith MacDougall
(US/Uganda, 1972, 70min.)
A classic of ethnographic cinema. TO LIVE WITH HERDS is a film about the Jie, a predominantly pastoral people of northeastern Uganda. Following a period of relative isolation under the British Protectorate government, the Jie are now under increasing pressure to exchange their traditional culture and subsistence economy for a cash economy and participation in a modern nation-state. The film examines this predicament in the light of Jie values. The question is not whether change is avoidable, but whether forms of change can be found that extend rather than attack the foundations of Jie life. “One of the most humorous, touching, formative, and (in both spirit and aesthetics) beautiful anthropological films I have ever seen … A prophetic look into the human costs of the political changes which are sweeping the new African states.” -Karen Cooper, Film Forum, New York. “One of those rare documentaries that seem to have a life of their own.” -Howard Thompson, The New York Times.
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