Learning on ScreenSilk, Muthappar and Vhs: Portraits from South India
- Alternative title
- Seide, Muthappar und Vhs: Portrts aus SÜdindien
- Synopsis
- Presents three portraits of ‘ordinary’ people in the town of Nagercoil, southern India: Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings, with a daily routine that revolves around the loom and the television set; Santa Cruz, once a fish trader and now a healer and magician who exorcises evil spirits with the help of the Virgin Mary and Ganesh, and Muthiah, a videographer of upper-class weddings. The video aims to show these people not as reprsentatives of homogenous masses, but to acknowledge them as individuals with their own specific worries and strategies in a changing world.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Switzerland
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min.
- Year of production
- 1997
- Availability
- Sale; 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Keywords
- ethnography; India
Credits
- Director
- Damaris Lüthi
- Producer
- Ulrich Grossenbacher
- Writer
- Damaris Lüthi
Production Company
- Name
Postfach 605
- Phone
- +41 31 312 57 62
- Address
- CH-3008 Bern
Switzerland
Distributor
- Name
Royal Anthropological Institute Film & Video Library, c/o Concord Media
- sales@concordvideo.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726012
- Fax
- 01473 274531
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG
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