Rina Sherman┃Filmography

Paris de mes exils┃Paris of My Exiles
Après sept années de vie en commune avec des Ovahimba en Namibie et Angola, Rina Sherman se retrouve à Paris, ville où elle s’est exilée en 1984 d’Afrique du Sud. Ce retour coïncide avec la mort de trois grands amis : Jean Rouch - cinéaste, mentor et copain, Didier Contant – grand reporter et âme sœur, le Chef d’Etanga, patriarche de sa famille Omuhimba et père de sa vie.
Rina Sherman porte à l’écran un poème urbain sur la vie en ville au travers une réflexion sur les droits de l’homme, la liberté d’expression face à l’impunité, le cinéma et ses retrouvailles avec la « vie-ville » après une rencontre intense et riche avec une famille africaine aux valeurs et éthique intactes.

Ce film a reçu le soutien de la bourse « Brouillon d’un rêve » de la SCAM et de la DDAI du Ministère de la culture et de la communication.

Following seven years of communal life with the Ovahimba in Namibia and Angola, Rina Sherman is back in Paris, city in which she took up exile from South Africa in 1984. Her return coincides with the death of three close friends: Jean Rouch – filmmaker, mentor and pal, Didier Contant – grand reporter and âme sœur, the Headman of Etanga – patriach of her Omuhimba family and father of her life.  
Rina Sherman brings to the screen an urban poem about urban life through a her thoughts on human rights, freedom of expression, the cinema and her return to city life, following and intense and rich encounter with an African family whose values and ethics are intact.
Screenings: Maghreb… si loin si proche. Revue du film
Projections : La SCAM, le 21 mai 2008 à 19h45
Reveue de presse : Le soir d'Algérie
Vidéo (DVCAM), 41’, 2007 Buy

Keep the Dance Alive┃Que la danse continue
A film about the music dance and spirit possession practices of the Ojtiherero language-speaking groups of north-western Namibia and south-western Angola. They are the Ovahimba, Ovadhimba, Ovahakaona, Ovakuvale, Ovatjimba... They are different but share a common culture and belief systems. The film explores the various ways in which music and dance transcend their everyday lives from infancy to death. For more information Teaser┃Buy: DER

Un film sur des pratiques de musique, de danse et de transe de possession des groupes de langue Otjiherero du nord-ouest namibien et du sud-ouest angolais. Ils sont Ovahimba, Ovadhimba, Ovahakaona, Ovagambwe, Ovakuvale, Ovatua. Ils partagent tous une même culture et un même système de pensée. Le film explore les différentes façons dont la musique et la danse transcendent leur vie quotidienne de la petite enfance jusqu'à la mort. Iinformations┃Teaser┃Buy
Production : Art Cinématographique Artisanal┃Low Tech Film Art. 120 mn, video, 2006.
Screenings: Présenté par la Cinémathèque de la danse à la Cinémathèque française, le 30 juin 2008
French première: La SCAM, 12 December, 2007.
US première : Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, NY, 11 November 2007.
UK première : RAI 10th International Ethnographic Film Festival, Manchester, June 2007>.
Avant première : Institut d'Ethnologie, Neuchâtel, Novembre 2006.
Selected for the:
→ XXII Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival. July 6 - 27, 2008
→ 2008 EASA Film, Video and New Media Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26-29 August 2008)
→ The IV Moscow International Visual Anthropology Festival «Mediating Camera» (Oct 2-8, 2008)

Ovaryange Tji Veya┃When Visitors Come┃Quand les invités arrivent
A film about the relationship between anthropologist, Rina Sherman and an Omuhimba family with whom she lived for seven years, filming and photographing aspects of their everyday and ritual lives. Halfway through her tenure in the field, Rina Sherman presented a multi-media exhibition, entitled The Ovahimba Years: Work in Progress in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. A group of young people from the community of Etanga travelled to Windhoek to participate in the exhibition.
The film explores the evolution of this relationship that lead to the exhibition, shows the group of young people discovering the presentation of their cultural heritage at the exhibition, holding performances as part of the programme presented, and shows the resulting discussions and consequences of the exhibition, once everyone is back in Ovahimba country. When Visitors Come is a film about an anthropologist in situ, and evokes several notions central to fieldwork, such as the nature of the bond between the observer and the observed, the observed observer, participant-anthropology and emotion as possible vector or hindrance in fieldwork. 30 mn, video, 2006.
Production : Art Cinématographique Artisanal┃Low Tech Film Art.
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Screenings:
Rencontres Paris-Berlin - Cinéma Entrepôt, 2007

Kurakurisa Ouruvi┃Shake Your Brains
A film about the relationship between anthropologist, Rina Sherman and an Omuhimba family with whom she lived for seven years, filming and photographing aspects of their everyday and ritual lives. Halfway through her tenure in the field, Rina Sherman presented a multi-media exhibition, entitled The Ovahimba Years: Work in Progress in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. A group of young people from the community of Etanga travelled to Windhoek to participate in the exhibition.
The film explores the evolution of this relationship that lead to the exhibition, shows the group of young people discovering the presentation of their cultural heritage at the exhibition, holding performances as part of the programme presented, and shows the resulting discussions and consequences of the exhibition, once everyone is back in Ovahimba country. When Visitors Come is a film about an anthropologist in situ, and evokes several notions central to fieldwork, such as the nature of the bond between the observer and the observed, the observed observer, participant-anthropology and emotion as possible vector or hindrance in fieldwork. Video, 50 mn, 2000.
Production : Art Cinématographique Artisanal┃Low Tech Film Art. Buy DVD
Screenings:
Première: 2002, National Theatre of Namibia.
Avril 2004: Cinéma et anthropologie filmique, Chroniques d'un autre regard, Cinémathèque française,
Festival Selection: October 2000, 21st Durban International Film Festival. More┃Photograph┃Buy┃ Antropologiavisiva

Voyage, Voyage - La Namibie
"In the Outskirts of Opuwo", the country of the Ovahimba and Ovaherero pastoral peoples. Impressions of a sojourn in this northern frontier town, a melting pot in its own right. Video, 40 mn, 1999.
Production: JBA Productions for the series, VOYAGE, VOYAGE of LA SEPT ARTE, Arte VOD

Screenings:
April 1999, First Notes from the Field, National Gallery of Namibia.
Avril 2004, Cinéma et anthropologie filmique, Chroniques d'un autre regard, Cinémathèque française.
Arte Documentaires Fiche Programme
Namibie La Sept - ARTE
La médiathèque
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Southern African Urban Dance Collection N° 1
Video, 72mn, 1996.