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Oliver Halsey
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2015
filmmaker and photographer
Living in the Namib Desert (Topnaar People) Documentary
Topnaar tradition and modern research meet living side by side in the Namib Desert
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Cobweb Beetles
มุมมอง 35ปีที่แล้ว
As seen on BBC Springwatch - larvae of the Cobweb Beetle, lives under tree bark - it actively seeks spider web, sneaking around to feed on remains of unfortunate prey stuck in the web. The vibration of it's tail is thought to be an interesting adaptation to confuse spiders so it doesn't become prey itself
Lizard Flies
มุมมอง 40ปีที่แล้ว
Short sequence filmed in 45mins. In the Namib Desert, Euphorbias have flowered. Lizards climb atop to the flowers and prey on pollinating flies
Youth Environmental Summit, Damaraland Namibia, 2018
มุมมอง 111ปีที่แล้ว
Engaging Namibian students in environmental education: Filmed in Damaraland, western Namibia, the film follows the weeklong training event from the perspective of the learners themselves. The Youth Environmental Summit (YES) is organised and run by Gobabeb Research & Training Centre with support from the Ministry of Environment (MET) and Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The...
The Music Returns to Kai-as
มุมมอง 3293 ปีที่แล้ว
"It's really amazing and quite frankly it's also tearful for those that know and understand |gais and arus songs in detail... the sound quality and film quality is very excellent. Thanks for your commitment and time spent on developing the film of this quality. Kai-aios (Thank you)." Fredrick ||Hawaxab, Namidaman Traditional Authority, Sesfontein, 7 December 2020. In May 2019, the Future Pasts ...
A Patch of Grass
มุมมอง 1335 ปีที่แล้ว
A close look at life in and around a patch of grass in the middle of London
Namib: Surviving the Sand Sea Documentary
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Namib: Surviving the Sand Sea is an independently produced natural history documentary about the adaptations of Namib Desert flora and fauna by Oliver Halsey | Filmed at Gobabeb Namib Research Institute gobabeb.org/ - For business enquiries related to stock footage see email address on channel profile
"!Nara !hūb" - !Khūb /Nammi Choir
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The !Khūb /Nammi choir from the Topnaar community sing their song "!Nara !hūb". The !nara plant is endemic to the Namib Desert of Namibia and of huge cultural significance to the Topnaar people, who have resided in the central Namib for generations. !Nara is used for food and traditional medicine.
Gobabeb Research and Training Centre
มุมมอง 3156 ปีที่แล้ว
Gobabeb Research and Training Centre is an internationally recognised centre for dry land training and research. It is located in Namibia in the Namib Desert, 120 km by road south-east of Walvis Bay.
The !nara plant
มุมมอง 2.4K6 ปีที่แล้ว
This is an excerpt taken from the documentary film, Namib: Surviving the Sand Sea. This clip explores the !nara plant (Acanthosicyos horridus) endemic to the Namib Desert. Film by Oliver Halsey - www.oliverhalsey.net
Welwitschia mirabilis
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This is an excerpt taken from the documentary film, Namib: Surviving the Sand Sea. This clip explores the bizarre and unique Welwitchia mirabilis plant, endemic to the Namib Desert of Namibia and Angola. Film by Oliver Halsey - www.oliverhalsey.net
Salvadora (Short Natural History Film)
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Featuring previously undocumented insect behaviour, science mixes with art in this tribute to the under-appreciated world of plants and insects. Salvadora persica is a shrub that occurs within the Namib Desert; this film explains how it survives, and explores the ecological web of its unusual ecosystem, a linear oasis.
The weevil Leptostethus waltoni laying eggs in Namib Desert + thanatosis
มุมมอง 3126 ปีที่แล้ว
Filmed by Oliver Halsey www.oliverhalsey.net
Namib Desert Time Lapses 4k
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Photographed in the Namib Desert 2016 - 2017. www.oliverhalsey.net music: "Low Flying" by Alexis Smith and Joe Henson audionetwork.com
I went to school around this area ..at a school called Utuseb. J P Brand primary school and it was the best years of my life ,hopefully I will be able to go back oneday for a visit
Outstanding 🙌🏻 you've piqued my interest in Namibia, that's for sure
Thanks for educating us 👍, also watching the video without reading subtitles made it more fun 😅👌
im is south africa thank you for sharing the lifestyle of the indigenous with us
nice video but ur translator mismatched 😱
Sorry to hear this, its frustrating. Several people have said so, do you know which parts are wrong?
Looks yummy
Ouma
That song at the end....the voices blend beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
Utterly enjoyed this documentary..... Wish I could get more of the choir music... I may not understand what they are saying but definitely spoke to my soul 🥺🙏
At 13:27 This is actually very cruel for the animal he or she feels it.. Very bad! Why don't you just hire more people to watch over them?
The translator didn’t do any justice at all. Very wrong and misleading translation 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ overall a good documentary
Whoever wrote these subtitles are a circus, great video though.
An insightful documentary I must say. Eric's masters is quite interesting and I am sure the findings are beneficial to the Topnaar people. It would be nice if he can pursure the same topic at PhD level.
Wonderful people
Like it
Dit roer my, het trane in my oë...my Afrika, my Land, my Grond....sooooo mooi.
Suffering in the desert even after hundred years it'll still be a desert how sad they should start praying for God to turn their land around It happened with the Jews whenever they set foot on barren land it turns to oasis
Hulle is nama
I love my country
THATS THE LAST OF OUR ORG AUNTIES AND UNCLES IF U SO CALLED COULERD .
Hard lives, holding fast on the margins of survival, where inherited knowledge and practices are the most precious asset. These lives are haunting memorials to all of us of what humanity once had to accept with a patience and good grace that astonishes in this day and age. To see these small Topnaar communities still wresting their livelihood after thousands of years, in such vast and unforgiving landscapes, inspires a strangely biblical awe. I found the singing at the end very beautiful, it seemed to be shaped by the landscapes.
Their animals looks so well fed in the desert, i wonder what do they eat because the land looks so barren.
Tracking has revealed that they graze on annual grass during rainy season,and browze during dry season. When i mean browsing,they feed on the leaves and mostly high protein containing pods.
Wow they living in peace. Stay there my brothers and sisters. May God bless u all ❤
So beautiful . It reminds me of my childhood in the desert in the Horn of Africa. We had a very big number of goats and sheep and we moved across the borders between Somalia and Ethiopia freely following the rainfalls.
the old lady wasnt wrong about this young generation lazy wont move lest u give them drugs grog terrible
I m very experienced and I could help them a lot to produce more food ...but without population control it would make no sense...only later more damage!
Beautiful ethnographic documentary
They, the people, should dig holes, build half moons to capture the rain and revitalise the soil and grow more trees and grass. Neither goats or cattle are native to Africa, they arrived after they were domesticated in the Middle East And have been eating the native flora back to the ground ever since. And they need to spread the seed of the Nara melon so they have many more to eat.
The seeds are naturally spread by the Jackals, they feed on the ripe fruits. but not all seeds germinate due to the viability and sporadic climates
We had no problems until western people disturbed us 😢😢😢😢yes we had fair share of our problems but they were worsen by this foreign people particularly those who destroyed our values and teach us cruelty selfishness
Salute to the resilient of all Namib tribes living in the desert .
Love the people and their culture. Thank you for sharing. All the way from Papua New Guinea.
I hope these people were paid and not just filmed in vain.
The translator changed what granny said 😅😅
Thank you for covering this , I grew up drinking and eating ,!nara, Lord gone are those days
Indigenous way of life, beautiful to see. Sad that they lost their chief
Thanks much for this documentry, this enable us to see people in other places cope with difficult living.
Why don't the people plant dates pomegranate citrus ect......food that grows in dry hot clinate? Thanks for sharing. Great video.
Awww I love this 😊thank you for doing this
Remember people can live underground, so building on top may require resources underground less resources.
UCT offers classes in for the language free od charge! I understand it and can speak minimal. Writing is a challenge due to the clicks. This documentary is better be put through a person that can understand, speak and write the language. I find the setting and language not congruent to my upbringing, understanding and knowledge od the country where Imwas born and raised.
Great job, Oliver! Made me sub
Love any language with a click. I could listen to it all day
Had the divine opportunity to sit with this tribe on the Botswana side of tge desert at a fire one evening ..I didnt understand a word but was so at peace around them ..humility present was abundant. They dont need passports to travel both ways of the border.
I also speak a click language called isiXhosa Found throughout South Africa and Zimbabwe
This is where my roots are from my grandmother's parents later moved to Kimberly south africa khoosans
This is a blessed people
This documentary reminds me my fathers cattle those years 1990 up. we was enjoy milk for free🥛🥛🥰
WAAAAAAUUU watching like I'm not a Namibian ❤❤❤❤
Same here😂
😂😂😂
Beautiful ❤❤❤
How would like to know how the seeds can still be viable and germinate after the intense boiling?
Hi dear friend 😊thanks for sharing all this beutiful views and all amazing moment that we experience with you 😊💕✨🌷🤍god bless you 😊✨🌷🤍💕
Sensitive, thoughtful documentary with beautiful photography. Thank you!