The Wedding Camels (1980)
- Directed by
- Judith MacDougall, David MacDougall
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- Kenya
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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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
This documentary follows a Turkana family in Kenya as they discuss and plan the livestock required for a wedding. It shows the traditional process of negotiating bridewealth before a marriage takes place.
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What happens
The Wedding Camels is an ethnographic film directed by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall, filmed in 1974 and released in 1980 (108 min., Turkana with English subtitles), that examines the negotiations and cultural practices that surround the tradition of the Turkana people of Kenya of giving a bridewealth before a wedding. The film was funded and distributed by the University of California Extension Center for Media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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