Eisuke Yanagisawa
Gong Culture in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
16 minutes
Each ethnic minority living in the Central Highlands of Vietnam has their own “Gong Culture”. Since old times, many family stock gong sets and play gongs at various rituals and ceremonies. But their gong culture is now declining due to the modernization and aging of gong players etc…
This movie tries to illustrate the traditional gong culture by focusing on the splendid harmony of the gong playing at Grave abandonment ceremony
of the Jarai and the sophisticated skill of the Gong tuner.
主な上映歴
- 第1回デリー国際民族誌映画祭(Delhi International Ethnographic Film Festival)2008年11月28日@デリー大学・インド、一般公募部門入選
- 第2回トルン映像人類学映画祭(Aspects"-Festival of Visual Anthropology, Torun, Poland)2008年11月30日、トルン・ポーランド、招待上映
- 第6回ケベック国際民族誌映画祭(Festival international du film ethnographique du Quebec)2009年2月1日@McGill大学・カナダ、一般公募部門入選