Making belief visible : the cultural and civic work behind the annual Santo Niño Ati-Atihan Festival in the Philippines / producer/director/writer/cameras/editor/narrator, George Villanueva.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Villanueva, George, director, producer, narrator, editor of moving image work, screenwriter.

Center for Visual Anthropology, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Social aspects--Philippines.

Dance.

Fasts and feasts--Social aspects--Philippines.

Fasts and feasts.

Folk festivals--Social aspects--Philippines.

Folk festivals.

Holy Childhood, Devotion to--Philippines.

Holy Childhood, Devotion to.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Ethnographic films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : University of Southern California, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Making Belief Visible is a visual ethnographic account of a Filipino-American filmmaker's journey back to his father's hometown in the Philippines to learn about the town's local ritual and now global tourist attraction - the Santo Niño Ati-Atihan Festival. The religious festival has evolved since its origins in the 1200's and has been referred to as the Philippines' Mardi Gras and Carnival. Making Belief Visible deconstructs the phenomenon through the filmmaker's participation in the event and interviews with locals about the practices, histories, cultural performances, perspectives, sensibilities, and tensions that embody the festival's yearly enactment.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed April 18, 2018).

OCLC:

1035418121