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37 Uses for a dead sheep

Ben Hopkins

The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Afghanistan. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives in their village to work with the tribe to tell their story. In a series of scenes divided into “chapters”, we see revealing interviews with the Kirghiz, see exciting and entertaining reconstructions shot in a variety of different cinematic styles, and comic scenes of the interaction between the film crew and the community. This film is part historical document, part ethnographical description of a unique people, part portrait of the conflict between individual and globalized culture, and part comedy about the process of film-making.

“Entirely fresh in its approach to history, it’s another singular entry in this director’s cherishably eccentric filmography” Sunday Telegraph

“A welcome break from the usual solemnity and piousness of ethnographic docmaking.” Variety

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