September 18, 2003 - University of Iowa: DVDs on African art by Ghana RPCV Christopher Roy

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DVDs on African art by Ghana RPCV Christopher Roy



DVDs on African art by Ghana RPCV Christopher Roy

African Pottery Techniques
Produced by Christopher Roy

This high-quality video was filmed in Burkina Faso and Ghana, West Africa in 2001-2 by Christopher D. Roy, Professor of art history at the University of Iowa. It includes seven short videos that explain each of the five forming techniques used by potters in Africa, as well as the preparation of the fresh clay and the firing of the completed pots. The techniques used include the concave mold, convex mold, direct pull, coiling, and hammer and anvil techniques. The videos are narrated by Professor Roy who explains each step, who the potters are, where they live, and how they market their work. Potters are from the Asante people of Ghana and the Mossi, Bwa, and Jelli peoples of Burkina Faso. The videos are suitable for K-12 students, college students, and professional potters who are interested in how potters around the world create their art.

Please don't use the preview as a source of streaming video. For streaming video go to:
http://itsnt121.iowa.uiowa.edu/vss-bin/vss_SR.exe/roy/search

Remember, streaming video is far lower quality than DVD, which can be played on your television or in the classroom.


Length about 60 minutes

Title #204744
Running time: 60 minutes


African Masks: Burkina Faso
Produced by Christopher Roy

Many peoples of Burkina Faso continue to create
elaborate and beautiful masks that are used in
funerals, initiations, village purification ceremonies,and market day dances as they have been for centuries. These masks are almost indistinguishable from the great masterpieces of African art that have been displayed in museums and illustrated in texts for decades. This DVD includes three videos: the first, shot on film in 1977 and 1985, inlcudes historic footage of masks from the Mossi, Bwa, Bobo, and Nuna (Gurunsi) peoples. Two videos were shot on digital video of the 2002 mask festival in Dedougou, and of Nuna masks in Savara and Tisse.

PLease do not use the preview as a source of streaming video. For streaming video please go to:
http://itsnt121.iowa.uiowa.edu/vss-bin/vss_SR.exe/roy/search

Remember, streaming video is far lower quality than DVD, which can be played on your television or in the classroom.

Running time 60 minutes

Copyright (c) 2003 by Christopher D. Roy

Title #204747
Running time: 60 minutes





DVD Price:
$24.95
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African Weaving
Produced by Christopher Roy

Africans continue to create elaborate and beautiful textiles that reflect their rich cultural heritage. The kente weavers of the Asante and Ewe people of Ghana are featured in this video which was filmed in 2002 by Christopher Roy, Professor of African art at the University of Iowa. The video begins with a Senufo woman in a small village in Burkina Faso who spins cotton into thread using a drop spindle. There are scenes of traditional dyers dying cloth dark blue with indigo, and of a workshop of weavers in Ouagadoougou who produce hundreds of yards of beautiful cloth each day. The focus of the remainder of the film is on the techniques of the Asante and Ewe weavers of Ghana, who produce beautiful kente cloth. The complex techniques are explained in the narrative, and the many parts of the loom are described.
The video is suitable for K-12 students, college students, teachers, and professional weavers.

Please don't use the preview as a source of streaming video. For streaming video go to:
http://itsnt121.iowa.uiowa.edu/vss-bin/vss_SR.exe/roy/search

Remember, streaming video is far lower quality than DVD, which can be played on your television or in the classroom.

Title #204752
Running time: 25 minutes


Arts of Ghana
Produced by Christopher Roy

The many peoples of Ghana create beautiful Kente cloth, brass castings, stamped Adinkra cloth used in funerals, stools carved of wood, and royal arts. They also use drums in ceremonies when the tonal patterns of the drumming match the tonal patterns of the spoken messages, allowing the drums to "speak." Five very high-quality videos, shot in August 2002, describe each of these art forms in detail. The complex parts of the Kente loom are explained, as well as the technique of double weaving. Lost-wax brass casting is explained from the modeling of the wax figure to the pouring of the molten brass and the breaking of the mold to reveal the completed work of art. An Adinkra artist explains the proverbs behind each of the stamped patterns as he works on a funeral cloth. The manager of a stool-carving workshop describes the types of each of the stools used by royals and commoners. Finally, the chief drummer of the Omanhene of Techiman speaks praises for the Bono people as the royal drums "speak" the very same phrases.

Please do not use the preview as a source of streaming video. For streaming video go to:
http://itsnt121.iowa.uiowa.edu/vss-bin/vss_SR.exe/roy/search

Remember, streaming video is far lower quality than DVD, which can be played on your television or in the classroom.

Title #204781
Running time: 60 minutes


A Day in the Life of a Village in Africa
Produced by Christopher Roy

What is it REALLY like to live in Africa? Scenes of daily life in the village of Sayaga, a small farming village in southwest Burkina Faso. Filmed in 2002 by Christopher D. Roy, Professor of African art at the University of Iowa, the DVD includes scenes of food preparation, building a house, children in school, spinning thread, weaving, making pottery, forging iron, mask performances, a traditional funeral, sand divination, balafon music, and much more. To provide a balanced view of life in Africa I have included scenes of city life in Accra, Ghana as part of the introduction.

The DVD is suitable for K-12 students, college students, and anyone interested in life in Africa.

Please do not use the preview as a source of streaming video. For streaming video go to:
http://itsnt121.iowa.uiowa.edu/vss-bin/vss_SR.exe/roy/search

Remember, streaming video is far lower quality than DVD, which can be played on your television or in the classroom.

Title #204951
Running time: 60 minutes


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Story Source: University of Iowa

This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; Pottery; Masks; Art; Weaving; COS - Brukina Faso; COS - Ghana

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