The Nuer call themselves Naath. Only their immediate neighbors, the Dinka, Shilluk and Arabs, call them Nuer. Most foreigners, which includes those with whom the Nuer neither fought nor traded, are called Bar which means 'almost entirely cattleless'. Those foreigners who live even more remotely and include Europeans are called Jur which means 'entirely cattleless', a most unthinkable state indeed.
The people of Ciengach, where the film was made, are the Eastern Jikany, one of about a sixteen distinct tribes of Nuer. Twenty-five years ago E.E. Evans Pritchard estimated the total population of Nuer to be around a quarter of a million. Since then the number has undoubtedly dwindled considerably due to warfare, civil strife, sickness, drought and the general abandonment of traditional lifeways.
However, those who still called themselves Naath did so with an extraordinarily vivid image of themselves as superior people living a superior life. Furthermore, it was impossible not to see that their lives were inextricably tied to their herds. Ciengach is a perfected plan for co-posperity of cows and humans.
It cannot be said that filming the Nuer was an easy task, but visually it was always absorbing. They were seldom resentful as was the rule with the Islamicized Afar in the Danakil Desert to the Northeast. On the contrary, the Nuer had a real, even exaggerated, sense of their importance. They considered themselves handsome and displayed their elegance with pride.
Nuer existence has, consistent with life led on a flood plain, an almost tidal rhythm due largely to the movement of cattle into and out of the villages. At almost precisely 10:30 in the morning cows and bulls began to groan, stand up and in other ways indicate that the time had come for them to be released and on their way to graze. Within moments the entire herd was sounding a unified complaint. Men and boys then slipped the tethers from their necks and the flow of cattle began. Five more minutes and the village was virtually silent. The herd had receded toward the river and to whatever grass the younger men could find. So the days passed into twilights of returning herds and men and the nights were filled with stars and an almost intoxicating 'bucolia.'

故事梗概
“等郎妹”，是全国解放以前客家山区一种畸型的婚俗，年幼女孩嫁到没有男孩的家中，苦苦等待婆婆为自己生一个丈夫。故事发生在二十世纪三十年代的客家山区。客家女润月幼年丧母，八岁那年，润月便被无力抚养她的父亲送到王家做等郎妹。在去王家的路上，儿时的伙伴春生，默默地看着坐在竹筏上的润月，随波而去，消失在远方。
但由于年纪小，夜晚醒来时，润月哭着要回家，阿姆(婆婆)桃花告诉她，进了王家的门，就是王家的人，外出是要犯忌讳的。阿姆五岁那年开始做等郎妹。苦苦等到的丈夫命丧南洋后，留给阿姆唯一的希望便是腹中的胎儿。在客家人聚居的地方，像阿姆一样命苦的女人不在少数。
阿菊比润月小一岁。阿菊做等郎妹的五年来，阿姆一连给她生了三个女娃。菊花的阿姆把自己接二连三生女娃的原因归结于阿菊，常常无端地责骂和殴打阿菊。比起阿菊，润月幸运得多。幸运的原因是，阿姆(桃花)不久生下一个男孩，取名思焕。时光流逝，思焕一天天长大。农忙时节，阿姆请春生来家里帮工。春生的勤劳和对润月的细心爱护，招来村里人的闲话。阿姆担心春生和润月会有什么事情，找到族长老叔公，希望找个好日子，举办思焕成人礼，好与润月圆房。十六年的辛苦劳做和等待，润月终于等来了和她一手带大的丈夫王思焕结婚。新婚之夜，受过启蒙教育的思焕无法逾越心中的伦理束约。在十六岁的思焕的心里，润月是阿姐，不是老婆。思焕不肯与润月圆房。为躲避国民党部队抓壮丁，思焕决定离开家乡，去往南洋。思焕的决定，让阿姆撕心裂肺地痛哭。从此，润月陷入绝望的等待之中。
不久，南洋传来思焕的死讯。春生同情润月的不幸，时常来帮润月干活。从春生那里，润月无意中得知思焕的死讯。润月在巨大的悲痛中，毅然拒绝春生的爱，坚持在漫长的岁月中等待渺茫的消息。几度春暖，几度冬寒，几十年后的润月已是满头银发的老人。客家人的围屋迎来一批又一批参观者。导游跟参观者介绍，这位老奶奶是围屋里的等郎妹，也是这里唯一的女主人。阳光下，润月依然数着豆子，等着丈夫的归来。
精彩视点：
本片是一部久违的艺术片。影片从女性视角出发，反映封建社会宗法、男权制度，真实地记录了福建客家大围屋生活、走南洋、等郎妹等特殊现象。导演手法大气从容、沉稳练达，镜头语言在人物命运的表现上灵动呼应一气呵成。
影片没有强烈的戏剧冲突。人物和人物之间，甚至没有明显的性格矛盾，没有坏人和恶势力的道德审判；有的，只有在人生历练的涓涓细流中，展示人丰富的情感和内心挣扎。在现代人看来，等待，显得难熬、寂寞、无助、苍白和可笑。对于影片中的主人公“润月”，等待，却是一种自觉和美德，是“守得住”的道德堡垒。影片风格始终保持忧郁的基调，画面以湿润的、雾茫茫的、阴郁的外景，和经年累月烟熏成黑色的室内情景为主调。影片以暮年润月平静安详的生活作为结尾，为的是打破全剧的封闭式结构，让观众了解“等郎妹”制度离我们并不遥远。
2008年 1月31日 19：35 CCTV-6播出

　　他的镜头是打开的心眼，在最细微处直视灵魂，看到巴西巨坑五万掏金者的集体面相，看到科威特油井冲天大火的真正英雄，看到非洲的死亡延续着生存。每次的拍摄方案都是经年的万里长征，是人神共舞，每次成果都引起巨大回响。合导的儿子伴着老爸远征，只见他用海象的视角，拍出但丁的地狱。再来到地球重病的现在，他重建了一座森林。云温达斯最心仪的传奇摄影师萨尔加多，就是大地之盐。获康城影展某种观点评审团特别奖，入围角逐奥斯卡最佳纪录片。

一个手持话筒、身边跟着摄影师的、时入画时出画的胖小子在四处正在大拆的北京街头，截住形形色色的路人（拣破烂的流浪汉、推婴儿车的老人、羞涩的外地民工、一脸严肃的武警战士、匆忙的上班族、带着中国姑娘的老外、前卫的都市新新人类，等等），突兀地将话筒伸过去，问“你觉得北京的风大吗？”对这个简单的问题，路人的反应迥异：不置可否、“大”或“不大”、反问他们是干嘛的、骂他们是神经病、似话痨搬瞎扯上半天，等等。
期间，胖小子会因人改变问话的内容，如是一对男女，是“你们幸福吗?”如是正在吃饭的，是“我可以和你们一道吃吗？”如是警察，是“警察叔叔，我捡到一分钱。”等等。而后来，镜头对准了一对孩子患了白血病的外地夫妻。

这是一部杰出的实验片作品，构思非凡、给人以疯狂而有趣的观感。全片在通往玛纳卡玛纳山脊的缆车上拍摄而成，朝圣者们搭乘缆车前往矗立在尼泊尔丛林中的玛纳卡玛纳神庙祈祷，此片以独特而戏虐的视角记录下了这一过程。影片由11个镜头组成，每一个镜头均在缆车内部拍摄完成。

记录片短片集

影片选择一位摄影师的妻女关系为主线，介绍北京一个家庭独生女的日常生活经历。在摄拍摄过程中，难得地披露了这一家庭日常生活中鲜为人知(实际上这类家庭又是随处可见的）的故事，成为分析今日中国家庭、儿童、学校和社会教育过程中重要基础材料。

至今留存的哈马撒舞蹈表演，探讨其历史过程与意义的多元观点。这部片也具体探究民族誌田野工作的伦理议题，企图重新思考人类学者与研究伙伴之间既合作又协商的複杂关係。