Film

Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India

Seide, Muthappar und VHS

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.

Regie

Damaris Lüthi

Drehbuch

Damaris Lüthi

Regie

Ulrich Grossenbacher

Status

Veröffentlicht

Veröffentlichung

20/01/1998

Originalsprache

Hindi