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Ixcanul ([ʔiʃ.kʰa.nɯɬ], Kaqchikel for "volcano") is a 2015 Guatemalan drama film written and directed by Jayro Bustamante in his directorial debut. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, [1] where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. [2]
Former Guatemalan dictator Enrique Monteverde (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) is convicted for orchestrating the native Mayans's genocide in 1982–83. Now elderly, he lives with his wife Carmen, daughter Natalia, granddaughter Sara and their security guard, Letona. During the trial, Natalia is troubled by indigenous women's accounts of being ...
Punta is the best-known traditional dance belonging to the Honduran community. It is also known as banguity or bunda. The diaspora of Garifuna people, commonly called the "Garifuna Nation", dates back to the West African who escaped slavery and the Arawak and Carib Amerindians.
Puppeteer, writer, animator. Years active. 1915–1935. Sarg's Nantucket Sea Serpent, 1937. The First Circus (1921) The Original Movie (1922) Anthony Frederick Sarg (April 21, 1880 – March 7, 1942) was a German American puppeteer and illustrator. He was described as "America's Puppet Master", and in his biography as the father of modern ...
The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. [1] It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, [1] [2] particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, [3] but is now found across West Africa from ...
The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...
Guatemala cinema navigational boxes (1 C) Categories: Arts in Guatemala. Cinema by country. Central American cinema by country. North American cinema by country. Entertainment in Guatemala. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Website. www.rutman.de. Robert Rutman (15 May 1931 – 1 June 2021) [1] was a German visual artist, musician, composer, and instrument builder. Best known for his work with homemade idiophones in his Steel Cello Ensemble, Rutman is regarded as a pioneer of multimedia performance in his mixing of music, sculpture, film, and visual art. [2]