The West Irian project

From 1974 through 1976, more than 50,000 meters of film were shot on the Mountain Papua of New Guinea, as part of a research project for the German Research Society examining the theme, “Interdisciplinary Exploration of Man, Culture and the Environment in the Central Highlands of West Irian (New Guinea).” The research was carried out in the high valleys of Eipomek, Famek, and Bime. Filming in this unexplored region did not prove easy. The people worked swiftly and spontaneously on an unyielding soil. Any intervention proved impossible but the result, nevertheless, was a first rate “primary source documentation.” One hundred fifty filmed units have been produced and are to be found at the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica or at the Max Planck Institute in the section on human ethology

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