剧情介绍
Dead Birds is a 1964 documentary film by Robert Gardner about the Dani people of New Guinea. It was produced as part of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to study the highlands of New Guinea, at that time one of the only remaining areas in the world uncolonized by Europeans.
DEAD BIRDS is a film about the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem high in the mountains of West Irian. When I shot the film in 1961, the Dani had an almost classic Neolithic culture. They were exceptional in the way they focussed their energies and based their values on an elaborate system of intertribal warfare and revenge. Neighboring groups of Dani clans, separated by uncultivated strips of no man's land, engaged in frequent formal battles. When a warrior was killed in battle or died from a wound and even when a woman or a child lost their life in an enemy raid, the victors celebrated and the victims mourned. Because each death had to be avenged, the balance was continually being adjusted with the spirits of the aggrieved lifted and the ghosts of slain comrades satisfied as soon as a compensating enemy life was taken. There was no thought in the Dani world of wars ever ending, unless it rained or became dark. Without war there would be no way to satisfy the ...
如何做到近距离拍摄原始部落而不被长矛戳死？要是有人拍个中国农村两村械斗不论输赢都要回寨吃杀猪菜的纪录片该有多好
一部非常优秀的人类学纪录片，真实又自然，可以看出导演前期做了长时间的田野调查，拍片建立在了对族群文化的深厚理解之上，不过在影像信息足够完整的情况下，更多时候可以让影像去承担叙事而不是旁白、讲解和字幕，比如影片中“普瓦准备去河边喝水”，即使不说明也完全可以看的出来。看片过程一直很平淡，直到看到了妇女的手指……
挺好看，拍得很好，还躲避漏点，叙事也很强，不过声音有点让人疲倦
人与人。。。聚落。。。战争。。。庆典。。。死亡。。。世界似乎没变多少。
本片是人类学家罗伯特加德纳所拍摄的美国最著名的人类学电影，以一种最低限度的干预。
老师推荐的人类学电影，每一个镜头都是历史和哲学。
相对文化主义。。
加德纳比起其他的人类学者，影像能力还是很不错的。我去学英语了。🌚
确实是完成度很高的一部民族志电影
人類學史課程推薦。
他们的战争实在太好玩了 像猫和老鼠hhh
anthropology有时候的确会让人感觉 wow 世界上还有这种事！但也的确没有想象中的好玩 sigh...
Sein oder nicht sein? Das ist einen Frage!
好像越是“文明”，“人”所涵盖的就越少。从最开始可以忍受蛆虫在身上挪动，到后来身体必须洁净，再后来人的本质只是理性。原始人他们在泥浆里打滚的、刀枪可入的肉体，是每一束肌肉都释放着生命力，而我们现代人却精细得脆弱，细嫩得敏感，只好软趴趴瘫在书桌前，多愁善感。
作为60年代的纪录片可贵的是已经有了多线叙事和对人物形象的塑造，而非仅流于展示的层面，但对人物心理的揣测多有主观臆断之嫌。