Cultural Space of Boysun, Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 40MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2008
Cultural space of Boysun was proclaimed a Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2001 and inscribed onto the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008.
This film contains information about the Boysun district’s nature and the cultural processes related to craftsmanship, folk performance, traditional medicine, and others.
Strong aspiration to preserve traditional lifestyles of the local people was observed during filming process in 2016 and 2017. An example of this is the increasing number of followers of the folk-ethnographic ensemble called Boysun.
Gardening in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 33MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
The current film is devoted to the knowledge and experience about gardening in different regions of Uzbekistan and its transmission to younger generations. In the first part of the film, fields and gardens of Fergana Valley and the house of Abdulvokhid Khoji living in the Oltiariq district is described. The film was made during spring, summer, and autumn. Abdulvokhid Khoji is a ninety-two-year-old father who has been teaching his knowledge and skills to future generations, in particular to his sons and grandchildren, based on master-apprentice traditions.
Maqoms of Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 40MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2008
Maqom is a complicated musical composition of many parts and governed by certain rules that developed over centuries. Uzbek maqoms have two parts: mushkilot (instrumental part) and nasr (song part).
Maqom development in Uzbekistan is associated with state centers—Bukhara in Bukhara Emirates, Khiva in Khorezm Khanet, and Kokand in Kokand Khanet.
These centers resulted in the formation of three maqom types, “Shashmaqom” (Bukhara), which includes six maqoms and “Khorezm maqoms” (Khorezm), which includes six-and-a-half maqoms. In Ferghana-Tashkent (Kokand), maqom cycles that contain four maqoms were edited by professional musicians of the palace.
In this film, skilled musicians and students perform all three maqom cycles. Recording was conducted in Tashkent, Ferghana, Khorezm, and Bukhara and was enriched with interviews from maqom researchers and masters.
Pottery of Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 40MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
The culture of making household necessities from clay can be seen in almost all nations around the world. The knowledge of making objects from clay and firing them have been known since ancient times and developed into regional schools.
The current film describes a small sample of pottery schools operating in Rishton (Fergana region) and Gijduvon (Bukhara region) and their representatives, current state, history, and the future of Uzbek pottery.
Alisher Nazirov from Rishton and Abdullo Narzullayev from Ghijduvon are the masters who set off such traditions in their schools. Working activities of these masters, their opinions about restoring traditions and styles of their schools were recorded in this film.
Palov Culture and Traditions of Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 33MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2016
Palov Culture and Traditions was inscribed onto the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016. Uzbek lifestyle is mainly connected with palov (osh) among all other meals. Palov is cooked in a ceremony conducted on the birth in the family and in all ceremonies conducted during a person’s entire life. Even in death ceremonies, palov is cooked to remember the deceased. Based on these traditions we can say that Uzbek palov brings family members, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, and friends closer.
The social significance of palov is highlighted in the current film with the help of cadres about palov preparation and consumption. Starting from purchasing ingredients, preparing, and consuming palov, the film documents the entire process as well as the conversations among the people making palov.
Navruz in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 21MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2016
Navruz is one of the largest holidays celebrated by Eastern nations. The Navruz nomination for the UNESCO Representative List in 2009 included seven countries. Since then, more states that celebrate Navruz became States Party to the Convention, the nomination was re-introduced on behalf of twelve States Party.
In Uzbekistan, 21 March was the national Navruz holiday. However, Navruz is celebrated in throughout country during the whole month.
Navruz celebrations in a makhalla of Tashkent, amusement parks of Fergana, and the Institute of Culture and Art are described in this film. Regardless of the celebration location, it has become a tradition to cook the royal meal of navruz-sumalak and spring meals such as kok somsa (pie with greens) and kok chuchvara (dumplings with greens).
Performances of folk teams, puppet masters, rope walkers, polvons (wrestlers), and modern music singers and different folk game competitions organized during Navruz. Navruz is not only the beginning of the New Year, but it is the power that brings people closer and spreads love and affection among people.
Rope Walking in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 22MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Uzbek rope walking art is very ancient and has its own traditions. Uzbekistan is considered the only country where this art has been preserved in its current form. This video gives us a look at the lifestyle of the rope walkers as they travel from early spring to late autumn with their families and teams while demonstrating their art. Currently more than forty ropewalkers’ groups perform in Uzbekistan. They are exempt from income tax.
Performances by the Madamin Dorboz team from the Paxtaobod district, Andijan, and by the Mukhiddin Ismailov team from the Bukhara region as well as interviews from members of the Vodil Dorboz team of Fergana region are in the present film.
The Art of Doston Narration in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 40MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Uzbekistan has three regional styles of doston performance: Surkhondarya-Qashqadarya, Khorezm, and Karakalpak. In the Surkhondarya-Qashqadarya style, the doston narrator performs in a guttural voice and accompanied by drum (two-stringed musical instrument). In the Khorezm style, doston songs are performed in a simple voice and accompanied by tor, doira, and bolaman.
The Karakalpak style of doston is performed in two ways: Romantic dostons are accompanied by karakalpak dutar and ghijjak; heroic epic performances are accompanied qo’biz (very ancient stringed instrument).
This film includes representatives of all three schools. We learn about their lifestyles, master-apprentice traditions, and processes to prepare certain musical instruments. Recording was conducted in Kashkadarya, Surkhondarya, and Khorezm regions and in the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
Traditional Ikat Making in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 39MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Fabric making art has been known in the territory of Uzbekistan since ancient times. Initially fabrics were weaved only from cotton. But in the first and second centuries bce, due to trading along the Great Silk Road, our ancestors learned the secrets of weaving silk fabrics.
This film includes some of the thirty-two stages involved with making abr fabrics. Rasuljon Mirzaahmedov is the representative of the ninth generation of abr makers. He revived various secrets of abr making as the result of his research on Uzbek fabrics being kept not only in the museums of Uzbekistan but also in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg and in other cities of Europe. As follow up his studies he established ikat weaving workshops in many regions of Uzbekistan as well as in neighboring countries.
Wedding Ceremony in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqboljon MELIKUZIEV
UZBEKISTAN | 2017 | 37MIN | HD | COLOR, B/W
Customs and traditions connected with wedding ceremonies are divided into three parts: pre-wedding ceremonies, those conducted during the wedding, and those performed after the wedding. These ceremonies vary in different regions of Uzbekistan, but they have some commonalities. For example, common pre-wedding ceremonies include organizing matchmaking at the bride’s house, giving toyona (financial aid) by relatives, registering legal and religious marriage, blessing process (fotiha berish) by older people. The wedding ceremony is a grandiose conduction at both the bride’s and the groom’s houses. Post-wedding ceremonies include salom (bride’s greetings), calling relatives of the groom, and others.
This film includes the customs and traditions connected with a wedding ceremony in Margilan, Fergana.
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