The Human face of the Pacific | Dennis O'Rourke | 1983 | ACMI collection

A series of six documentaries covering six Pacific nations and territories, giving a wide-ranging view of contemporary Pacific society. It shows the variety of ways of life from subsistence to urbanization and the challenges from outside of what has been called the “Pacific way”.

Works in this group

A place of power in French Polynesia

Australia, 1983

Atoll life in Kiribati

Australia, 1983

Fiji - legacies of empire

Australia, 1983

New Caledonia: a land in search of itself

Australia, 1983

Pacific paradise?

Australia, 1987

Samoa: I can get another wife but I can't get any parents

Australia, 1983

The Marshall Islands: Living with the bomb

Australia, 1984

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Collection

In ACMI's collection

Credits

co-producers/directors

Dennis O'Rourke

Oliver Howes

production company

Film Australia

Duration

00:28:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1983

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

S00791

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → O'Rourke, Dennis

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Pacific Area

People → O'Rourke, Dennis

Places → Pacific Area

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

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