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>WHITECHAPEL FILM PROGRAMME: SHAMANS OF THE BLIND COUNTRY
>
>Sat 6 May, 2pm
>Shamans of the Blind Country (Schmananen im Blinden Land)
>Michael Oppitz, Nepal/Federal Republic of Germany/US, 1978-80, 223mins
>An epic and beautiful filmic essay on the world of the Magar Shamans of
>Northwestern Nepal by director and anthropologist Michael Oppitz. The
>four-hour film, rarely seen in public and of which only a few copies
>survive,
>is a substantial achievement. Specifically combining rigorous ethnographic
>research with a structuralist approach to theorising social and mythical
>reality it impressed such artists no less than Joseph Beuys and Sigmar
>Polke
>and Beat author William S. Burroughs part-narrates. A rare synthesis.
>
>The film will be introduced by Arnd Schneider (Reader in Anthropology,
>University of East London), who will also speak about his new book
>(co-edited
>with Chris Wright), 'Contemporary Art and Anthropology'.
>
>Tickets: £5.50/£3.50
>Box Office: 020 7522 7888
>www.whitechapel.org
>
>Whitechapel Art Gallery
>Whitechapel High Street
>London E1 7QX
>
>nearest tube: Aldgate East
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