Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1960)
- Original title
- Le ciel et la boue
- Directed by
- Pierre Dominique Gaisseau
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A film crew follows a 7 month Franco-Dutch expedition into uncharted parts of Netherlands New Guinea. The group travels through dangerous terrain, encounters local tribes, and faces physical hardships.
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What happens
Sky Above and Mud Beneath (French: Le Ciel et la boue, lit. 'the sky and the mud'), also released as The Sky Above –The Mud Below, is a 1961 French documentary film. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. The film documented a 7-month, thousand-mile Franco-Dutch expedition led by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, into uncharted territories of what was then Netherlands New Guinea. The expedition began in the northern region of the Asmat. The group interacted with tribes of cannibals, headhunters and Pygmies; battled leeches, hunger, and exhaustion; and “discovered” and named the Princess Marijke River, named after Princess Maria Christina (Marijke) of the Netherlands. After its Academy Award win, Embassy Pictures released The Sky Above –The Mud Below in the United States in 1962. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Chronique d'un été (1961)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.