Ákos Östör

Ákos Östör is an anthropologist, filmmaker and author. While at Harvard University in the 1970s and '80s he made two films in collaboration with Robert Gardner and two with Allen Moore. Since then he has been working closely with Lina Fruzzetti (of Brown University) as his primary collaborator, codirecting several more. The films Östör and Fruzzetti create together are marked by a high degree of collaboration with the people they film and colleagues in the field (among them Amandina Lihamba) as well as other filmmakers Steven Ross, Alfred Guzzetti and Shawn Hainsworth. Currently, Östör teaches anthropology and film studies at Wesleyan University, where he has been since 1988.

Books:
Concepts of Person: Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India
Making Forest of Bliss
Play of the Gods
Vessels of Time

Films:
Loving Krishna (1982)
Serpent Mother (1985)
Forest of Bliss (1986)
Sons of Shiva (1985)
Seed and Earth (1995)
Khalfan and Zanzibar (2000)
Fishers of Dar (2001)
Singing Pictures (2005)

Related Links
Senses of Cinema: The Making of Forest of Bliss
International Movie Database

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