Science Since 1500 -
by Humphrey Thomas Pledge, Science Museum (Great Britain)
Category: Biology

"'Taking pictures' explores the issues and pitfalls of filming across a cultural boundary - through interviews with Australian filmmakers and by sampling their powerful award-winning documentaries about PNG [Papua New Guinea] - including the 'Highlands trilogy', 'Trobriand cricket', 'The sharkcallers of Kontu', Cannibal tours' and 'Man without pigs'. It also covers the work of indigenous PNG filmmakers, and their own experience of making sense of film and culture. 'Taking pictures' is an inquiry into the practicalities, politics and aesthestics of the documentary experience"--Container inlay.