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Serpent Mother
Serpent Mother
ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0098 · Item · 1985
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

Serpent Mother is about devotion to the Goddess of Snakes and the importance of divine female power in West Bengal Indian life. The film's focus is the Jhapan Festival, the great celebration of snakes. It shows the festival preparations, the role of traditional arts and crafts in the worship of the Goddess, devotional singing, and a demonstration of ritual action.

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Sermiligaaq 65°54'N, 36°22'W
ES ES-OVNI RSC-3680 · Item · 2008
Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few generations from earth house to modernity, complete with helicopters, satellite TV and alcohol. This documentary shows us East Greenland today, the village in summer and winter, the family between seal hunting and computer games. It lets us experience in clear and poetical scenes normality in an extraordinary world, quietly observing events, faces, gestures that combine to form a portrait that is at the same time strange and strangely familiar.