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Sifinja : the iron bride / a film by Valerie Hänsch ; director, Valerie Hänsch ; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Penn Museum Library DVD/PAL HE5614.5.S84 S54 2011
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bedford trucks.
- Trucks--Design and construction.
- Trucks.
- Mechanics (Persons)--Sudan.
- Mechanics (Persons).
- Sudan.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container front: Sifinia
- Place of Publication:
- London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In Arabic with subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, all region.
- digital
- optical
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically modify the truck into an ideal vehicle, adequate for taveling off-road and for performing customers' expectations. The craftsmen and drivers call the lorry 'Sifinja' because it is soft and comfortable like the plastic slippers it is named after. ... Following closely the daily work, art and history of truck-modding on the Nile, a fascinating way of African creativity dealing with global commodities - the automobile - is opened up."--Container.
- Participant:
- Interviews, Kurt Beck.
- Credits:
- Camera, Valerie Hänsch; editors, Georg Höngdobler, Valerie Hänsch; music, Al-Ustadh Abd al-Qadir Salim; translation, Valerie Hänsch ... [et al.].
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary film produced in 2009.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 827307386
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