Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India

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Documentary

Overview

The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a healer and magician; and Muthiah, a videographer of upper class weddings — living in a neighbourhood in Nagercoil, a south Indian town. The aim of the video is to show the persons not as representatives of homogeneous masses, but to acknowledge them as individuals who nurse their own specific worries and strategies in a changing world. The protagonists thus themselves comment about their own lives and actions.

Details

Status: Released
Original language: Hindi
Spoken languages: Hindi, Tamil, English
Countries: Switzerland
Director: Damaris Lüthi,Ulrich Grossenbacher
Writer: Damaris Lüthi
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt12023364