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Waves of Joy: Anandalahari (1994 Video)

Director

Deben Bhattacharya

Producer

Deben Bhattacharya

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

The religious itinerant B‚ul poets and singers come from the Hindu and Muslim communities of Bengal. They communicate their faith and philosophy through songs, dances and instrumental music. The film was...

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Faces of the Forest: The Santals of West Bengal (1994 Video)

Director

Deben Bhattacharya

Producer

Deben Bhattacharya

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the aboriginal community of the Santals, its social habits, religious ceremonies, and the day-to-day life of a village situated at the borders of West Bengal and Bihar. Rich in traditional songs,...

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Seeds on Earth (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 36 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bengal (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complenentarity and difference of gender...

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Painted Ballad of India (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Art; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the art of painting the eight-metre long horizontal scrolls in a desert village in Rajasthan, with a ballad singer telling the tale of the folk hero Pabuji. The moves to a hamlet of traditional...

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Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya (2006)

Director

Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Östör

Subject

Anthropology; Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £50.00

For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near...

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Aranya Amrita (1991 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £14.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A dance performance about ecology, deforestation, popular resistance, women as organisers of social change, and the power of contemporary Indian dance theatre. Based on a dance drama created by the Manjusri...

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Plough and the Hoe, The. Part 5: A Time for Change (1984 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Shows how West Bengal’s socialist government is trying to combine the objectives of greater social justice and agricultural modernisation, suggesting that despite setbacks, progress is being made....

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Living Echoes: A View of Contemporary Folk Performance Art in India (1986 Video)

Director

David Haley

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

Shows the Jhatra companies, the Naya Theatre Company, pre-Hindu fire ceremonies, and the Tower Hamlets arts project collaboration with various villages in Bengal and Bangladesh during 1986.

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River Called Titas, A (2002)

aka: Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 161 minutes), £19.99

Based on a Bengali novel by Advaita Malla Barman, A RIVER CALLED TITAS was filmed in Ghatak’s home of East Bengal after the independence of Bangladesh. Overwhelmed by the changes in his native land, Ghatak...

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Biodiversity Under Threat (2011)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £45.00

Resource bank of video clips, interactive maps, student activities and teachers’ notes. Bangladesh’s Sundarban Mangroves is one of the world’s most bio-diverse areas and home to the endangered Bengal...

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