Dodoth Morning | |
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Directed by | Tim Asch |
Distributed by | Documentary Educational Resources |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.