Trobriand Cricket (1976)

Directed by

Jerry Leach, Gary Kildea

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

53 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows how the people of the Trobriand Islands transformed cricket into their own distinct game. It was filmed in the 1970s and records their local adaptations of the British colonial sport.

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What happens

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism is an anthropological Documentary film about the people of the Trobriand Islands and their unique innovations to the game of cricket, filmed in 1973–74. The film was made by Gary Kildea, under the direction of anthropologist Jerry Leach. It was shot in three weeks, on a budget of around Au$180,000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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