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Overview

0:00-2:28	26.-28.02.02 01.-03.03.02	„Ente lokam“ (EL) = „My world“ 8 films by Dalit Women's Society, 5 films by M. Women
2:28-3:52	23.01.03	Inter-View P.E. Usha - B. Schulze
3:53-4:33	23.01.03	At “Sarang”, former alternative school for adivasi children, meeting Vijayalakshmi

Time	Content	Inter-Facing
	26.-28.02 + 01.-03-.03.02 “Ente lokam”-film shooting 04. - 06.03.02 editing EL films by B. Schulze and Sarat
0:00- 0:16:13	“See, this ... is our world ...” (four women, M.)	women's self help group
0:16:43- 0:28:30	The film of M1	prayer song, kitchen
0:28:30- 0:39:25	" " of M2	husband and wife in kitchen
0:39:30-0:53:06	" " of M3	self employment by running a cantine
0:53:07-1:04:54	" " of D1	wife's ethics = hus- band's orientation
1:04:58-1:17:13	" " of D2	woman's self-nega-ting compassion
1:17:20-1:26:32	" " of D3	husband & wife do agricultural works
1:26:40-1:33:10	" " of D4	woman's worries on alcoholism
1:33:20-1:45:35	" " of M4	children as a woman's hope
1:45:40-1:55:52	" " of D5	wife & husband co-operating
1:55:55-2:04:10	" " of D6	woman's autodidac-tic learning/ work
2:04:33-2:16:25	" " of D7	a woman's strange dreams of a kitchen
2:16:52-2:28:49	" " of D8 and D9	women friends inte-rested in newspaper
2:28:50	23.01.03 Interview with P.E. Usha	“good-bad woman”, fight for justice
	Schulze: Her motivation for hunger strike in April 2001?
2:30	Usha: ..the education minister was ….not giving justice to me -> also with regards to other women in Kerala, so they will be treated justly	care for greater common good of women
2:32	-> the hunger strike forced everybody to face these issues [from 2:32 visual black]
2:33	è only partly successful è some parts of the public opinion were on her side, but also opponents
2:34	è we are paying a very big thing for a small cause è strategically speaking no victory
2:36	-> too big an effort -> 10 days of hunger strike, still no full victory in court
	Schulze: role of the media? -> sympathetic but spectacular	media public
2:38	Usha: agrees, bad in media coverage: she is seen as poor woman who needs help, rather than as civil rights activist	‚helpless woman’
2:39	Schulze: why that „helpless woman“ image? Usha: -> because media can then take over the role of helpmate, though there is no real interest in women’s rights Schulze: about Usha's opponents, their depiction of her as „bad woman“	no interest in women's citizen rights 'bad woman'
2:41	opponent’s strategy Schulze: „what I read like a Yakshi sucking the blood of a poor person”	Yakshi [fem. demon who revenges upon brahmins who sexu-ally exploited them]
2:42	è reversal of victim/aggressor Usha: about slandering in book by Kurup (Calicut University), e.g. she would have no support by male family members, would incite other women to join her „This is my fight, I will stand for me“	women need male 'support'
2:45	Usha: concerning Ex-Vice-Chancelor Kurup, (wrote about Usha), -> has no interests in women’s rights, only in his daughter’s improvement – paternalistic	Kurup’s paternalising attitude
2:47	-> for him a good woman is an obedient woman	'good woman'
2:50	è made Usha responsible for bad publicity of university, not Prakashan (colleague) e.g. in Playboy è manipulated facts, defamation è Usha still has no copy of the report from university	Prakashan
2:53	-> Usha could not keep her employment due to defamation of the employer = chancellor	women's
2:55	Schulze asks about genuineness of democracy in Kerala è people who don’t belong to the interest group, have no support in society (-> marginalised), Kurup acts as in a feudal society è about parties: highly suppressing patriarchal system è about attitude towards Adivasi	Kerala democracy feudal society party’s patriarchal system
2:59	Usha: „women are pushed back” if they try to fight for their rights, “invisibly control them” -> she only got support if her husband had joined her in her efforts, otherwise she was seen as bad woman	‚bad woman’
3:01	-> system of good & bad women we have to break fast	'good and bad woman'
3:02	Schulze: issue of good/ bad woman prevails in Kerala society ...
3:05	Schulze: men’s activities are never investigated in such detail, nor their surroundings
3:06	Usha: because they only see women as belonging in the kitchen (private sphere)	woman in the kitchen
3:09	Schulze: very rigid structure, has to be changed, but how? Usha: ...many silenced voices, collectivate it -> make it a big voice: Dalits, Adivasi, other marginalized, …become a major force	collective action against being silenced
3:15	Schulze: Janu ..”the public is not prepared to deal with thinking women“, network: gives strength to the women and show the other ...	C.K. Janu
3:18	Usha: “ all the women are created as subsidary creature” -> can only act under male control	woman – a subsidiary creature
3:19	“they all think I am a premature… by all means intellectual - some women share this view
3:20	Usha and Schulze reflect about ... from the opponents’ point of view (bemused) Usha: „ I think the intellectuals are creating more problems here“ è are not supportive Schulze: are the so called feminists in fact feminist?	negative role of Kerala intellectuals feminists
3:24	Usha: “very few supported me after the strike”, also women groups
3:27	…”leaving your husband” .. openly appreciating me .. “in case of women people are always mixing the private and public spheres”	private-public
3:29	Schulze: -> issue to liberate the women’s own minds “the women do not question”, or, if they do ( Dalits, Sex workers) due to specific experiences ... what is the identity of women according to men, who changes?	women’s liberation of their own inhibitions
	Usha: Dalit/Adivasi women try to stop husbands using large parts of the income for alcohol; women’s groups won’t work together with men due to alcoholism	Dalit/ Adivasi women against alcoholism
3:34	Usha: „many of the women are ready to list out their discrimination“, example of a woman who does not want to stick to always eating old rice of preceding evening but wants to eat fresh breakfast like husband and children
3:36	concerning mainstream and Adivasi women „ some modern adivasi family very much like mainstream women and family, traditional women much more courageous; Schulze: difference between women in the countryside and in town? ...	Adivasi – mainstream relations
	Usha: all „good“ women are only to act under male supervision	'good woman'
3:40	Schulze asks about an article on Usha two years ago
3:42	Usha: Geeta (feminist) compared Usha and Vinaya (in Madhyamam), puts them in strong contrast-> also writes according to good/bad woman-idea „even the feminists have it“	Geeta feminism and 'good-bad woman'
3:43	Schulze: joking „Kerala's ideal woman is invisible“, Usha repeats, this is the body politics in Kerala Ideal woman invisible-> mainstream women, do they have a feeling for their own bodies ..?	women’s bodies
3:46	Usha: „the government .. is not admitting women´s bodies “ e.g. public space> “no space to deposit sanitary napkins”	women's bodies' needs are denied
	-> “ we have to find our own space to deposit”
3:49	“every man can express his opinion about a woman´s body, her dress, her conduct etc.; the women can´t choose their clothes according to convenience	rigid dress codes for women
3:50	“they are always suffering to please others” “moral obscenity”	moral obscenity
3:52	dressing patterns express age and status Schulze: differences for Adivasi-Women? Usha: No, „they also want to become ideal women“ -> mainstream	adivasi women also ‘infected’ by main-stream dress code
3:53-3:58	24.01.02 Change of location: outside, early morning, P.E. Usha and Schulze at ‘Sarang’/Attappady region, Vijaya-lakshmi and husband, landscape, houses, plants in close-up, Sound: noises of the morning and the nature, some traffic	Sarang
3:58-4:01	Usha and Schulze, Vijayalakshmi near to their simple house, driver watches them
4:01	Picture: again surroundings, bushes, plants, houses, Sound from a distance: Usha and Vijayalakshmi and nature
4:04	Ruin of their former school-building – roof destroyed
4:08	Schulze films: former school of Adivasi project Sarang
4:10-4:11	Picture: landscape, walking along a footpath
4:12	Vijayalakshmi's kitchen in their hut, Usha and Vijaya-lakshmi, two boys, her husband, the driver and Schulze Picture: cooking tea, talking, dog	exploited nature
4:19	Picture: plants, trees Vijayalakshmi: telling what is eatable, talking about: which trees were/are there, fetching the water from afar, sprouts eating	medicinal plants water scarcity
4:28-4:33:55 (end)	Picture: woman with collected fire wood passes - about school system, their own school, they have no money anymore for a school because of the climate-> no water -> no crops -> no money - about NGO´s and aid organisations and Usha	alternative school: no water, crops, money NGO