Dodoth Morning

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Dodoth Morning
Directed byTim Asch
Distributed byDocumentary Educational Resources
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dodoth Morning is a 1976 film by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch.[1]

A documentary film that follows a morning in the life of a family of the Dodoth people in northeast Uganda in 1961, a year when too heavy rains threatened to destroy the millet, which the people grew before the pillboxes in addition to their diet.[2][3] This film features a time when too much rain threatened to rot the millet that is grown to supplement their diet, and the events that follow. It was completed in 1963.[2]

The film begins in the early morning and tells about the headman, his four wives and his family doing their daily chores. Tension builds and flares up during a domestic dispute between father and son.[3]

The film is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Finnegan, Gregory A. (1979). "Dodoth Morning . Timothy Asch, Anne Fischel". American Anthropologist. 81 (1–2): 206–207. doi:10.1525/aa.1979.81.1.02a01180.
  2. ^ a b Lewis, E. (2003). Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film. New York: Routledge. p. 2. ISBN 0-415-32774-1.
  3. ^ a b "Documentary Educational Resources". Documentary Educational Resources. Retrieved 2024-03-20.