Visitors of the Night

Original Title: Nachtelijke bezoekers

34' | 1998 (Completed)

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Director:	An Van Dienderen
Producer:	Jan Roekens, Sophie Schoukens
Writer:	An Van Dienderen

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The failures of the ethnographic endeavor to discover reality are revealed in this expository and experimental film. The narrator-ethnographer embarks on an expedition to encounter the Mosou, an isolated and matrilinear tribe in the mountains of South West China.

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The failures of the ethnographic endeavor to discover reality are revealed in this expository and experimental film. The narrator-ethnographer embarks on an expedition to encounter the Mosou, an isolated and matrilinear tribe in the mountains of South West China. Their society is built on the principle of the axia-relationship, ties between visitors of the night. This means that a man only stays in his wife¬πs house at night and during the day he works for the benefit of his grandmother. Since men and women do not have economical obligations, their unique, polyandric relationships are based on love only. Recently due to funding by the Han government, The Lugo region has turned into a major touristic area, where tradition and modernity clash - particularly when the polyandry of the Mosuo is seen as prostitution by outsiders. Van Dienderen playfully reveals the distance between textual knowledge and the experience of a cinematographic journey in a thoughtful and fascinating documentary.

Credits

Director
An Van Dienderen
Producer
Jan Roekens, Sophie Schoukens
Writer
An Van Dienderen
Editing
Didier Volckaert
Photography
An Van Dienderen, Karen Van der borght, Didier Volckaert
Music
Etnic Mosuo Music

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

1998
Production status
Completed
Original title
Nachtelijke bezoekers
Original language
Dutch, Chinese

Technical specs

Running time
34'
Sound format
5.1 (+sub)
Available formats
Analog Betacam
Colour
Colour

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Festivals

2011: Exhibition 'Poetics of Observation, SIC' - Netwerk Aalst (BE)
2008: Elles tournent! Festival Brussels (BE); B-Docs (BE); Extrapool Nijmegen (NL)
2007: Documentary reframed - Paved Arts - curator Maureen Latta (CA)
2001: Cinema Nova Brussels (BE)
2000: S.M.A.K. Ghent (BE); Rio de Janeiro (BR); Albion College (US); Marlboro College (US); Donell Public Library NY (US)1999: Margaret Mead Festival New York (US); PFA Berkely (US); Belluard Festival Fribourg (CH)

Awards

1999: GNT Channel television Prize for Language Renewal (BR); Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival Award New York (US)

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Elektrischer Schnellseher (BE)

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the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

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Visitors of the Night

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Producer

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Editing

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Original title

Original language

Technical specs

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Sound format

Available formats

Colour