Margaret Mead Film Festival

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Text “American Museum of Natural History Margaret Mead Film Festival” appears over footage from Bucks Harbor of a couple, shot from behind, watching a large fireworks display.  

14-year-old Qihuo, the subject of Whispers in May, and a friend look into a mirror. Qihuo is wearing red lipstick and an elaborate headdress with a metal panel on the front that has dangling metal pieces. 

Three people, their faces obscured by shadow, walk through a corn field in footage from Black Zombie. 

A person with long hair, from River Dreams, dances on a pole, gripping the pole with their legs and holding a canister in one hand, spraying a cloud of blue into the air in a structure with a partially open roof.  

Two baby polar bears, from Nuisance Bear, walk around an top of an adult polar bear who is resting outside in the snow.  

An elderly person wearing a pink dress shot from a low angle, a subject of Daughters of the Forest, stands in a forest, picks up a large mushroom, and holds it out.  

The text “Special Events” appears over an overhead view of a crowd of people walking around and sitting in the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploration Atrium inside of the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation.  

Close-up on the face of a child.  

An elderly person wearing a knit cap and paisley print shawl sits on the edge of a neatly made bed.  

Black and white footage of two children blowing out candles on a birthday cake held out to them by an adult, from Time and Water.  

Two older people blow out wavy candles on a cake held out to them by another older person, as a child looks on, also from Time and Water. The table is strewn with mostly empty cups and a mostly empty liter bottle of Coca-Cola. They laugh after they blow out the candles. 

A bearded person bathed in pink light, a subject of Jaripeo, wears a glittery turtleneck, large shiny earrings, and a cowboy hat bedazzled with rhinestones and dances in front of a large disco ball with their arms extended.  

Text “American Museum of Natural History Margaret Mead Film Festival May 1-3” appears over footage of a subject of Bucks Harbor standing beside a large, outdoor fire as the flames  grow bigger.  

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Text “American Museum of Natural History Learn more: amnh.org/mead” appears over a black screen.