Unedited footage from an interview shot in northern Mursiland, during the making of the films ‘The Land is Bad’ and ‘Nitha’. The three men were asked to give their views on the foreign tourists who had become regular visitors to their country in recent years.
A clip from the film ‘Fire will eat us’. Bedameri, a Mursi government official, explains to his listeners the latest twist in the story of the government’s demands that the Mursi young men who took part in a raid on the Aari in January 1999 should give themselves up to the police. The conversation takes place in a shelter constructed some time earlier to hold relief food, at Gorobura, in northern Mursiland.
Unedited footage shot during the making of the film ‘Fire will eat us’ in January 2001. The tourists shown were from ‘Discovery Expeditions’ of Antwerp, Belgium. They were filmed meeting a group of Mursi at the bridge over the River Mago.
A clip from the film ‘Nitha’, showing the culmination of the age-set ceremony, held at Kurum in southern Mursiland. In the very early morning, the new set is given its name (‘Geleba’) by the presiding elder, Ulijeholi Garana. This was the first age set to be formed since 1961.
In 2006 a Dutch conservation organisation, African Parks Foundation, took over the Omo National Park on 25 year lease. Two years later it left amidst some controversy. In this clip from the film ‘Shooting with Mursi’ (directed by Ben Young and shot by Ben Young and Olisarali Olibui), Mursi give their side of the story.
