Content_DV_II

Overview

0:00-0:32	21.02.02	M.-women: shooting Ente lokam/ 'My world' films
0:32-0:35	19.03.02	Scenes of Kottayam town
0:35-1:36	19.03.02	B. Schulze and Geetha, a social worker, visit Pankajyakshan, a free-spirited man who looks like Gandhi, in Allapuzha district
1:36-2:45	08.03.03	WorkshopIIA: discussion, feedback about KUDIYIRAKKA.../ DISPLACED PEOPLE at docu-feature by dalit women,
2:45-3:42	08.03.03	- discussion with filmmaker C. Saratchandran about 'tribals'
3:42-4:§9	08.03.03	- discussion dalit women, women students, Sarat and Schulze about water, Coca-Cola agitation, wells (!last three minutes of this discussion on tape DV_XIII 4:08-4:11)

Time	Content	Inter-Facing
	21.02.02 M.-women: shooting for Ente lokam films	Ente locam shooting
0:00-0:04	Outside: M1's house in the morning, and the houses of other women and surroundings described by B. Schulze	M1’s prayer song
0:04-0:22	M2's house inside, M2 doing typical works and duties: singing, praying, brushing, fetching water, cleaning the dishes, ironing, cooking, sewing ...	M2’s husband helps in kitchen
0:22-0:32	M9 with her little son visits M1
	Ferry boat from Kottayam to Allapuzha
0:32-0:35	19.03.02 city scenes from Kottayam, Cinema posters and street: “Peeping Tom” at Allapuzha	Kottayam city film posters
	Change of location: Allapuzha district, Kanjipaddam
0:35-0:41	19.03.02 B. Schulze and Geetha visit Pankajyakshan, a retired teacher, free spirit looking like Gandhi but wants to eliminate money, power politics, and independent village production. Inside his house: photographs etc.	Pankajyakshan's utopia: no money, no politics, village production, basis democracy
0:41-0:59	Outside: P’s village Kanjipaddam, small houses, rice fields, ducks, branches of backwater ways. Walking through the village, talking to different villagers, Geetha translates from Malayalam to English
1:00-1:13	Visiting a neighbour, inside Pankajyakshan reads a film script	a filmmaker wants to make a film on P.
1:13-1:19	More walking through the village, talking to villagers
1:19-1:34	Inside: Pankajyakshan talks to Geetha, B. Schulze
1:35-1:36	Again inside the house of Pankajyakshan
	Change of location and time
1:36	08.03.03 WorkshopIIA at Manganam
	discussions between the dalit women, filmmaker Saratchandran (Sarat), two women students, Asha and Rema, who participated in Plachimada agitation against Coca Cola, women sitting in hall, camera on speakers, listeners, discussion in Malayalam	>> protocol of workshop IIA
1:41-1:46	Dalit Women’s film on TV, women watching, sign on door, yard in front of hall, women watching TV video film	KUDIYIRAKKAPE-DUNAVAR/ DIS-PLACED PEOPLE
1:50	discussion about film, Schulze asking questions in English, women in Malayalam, interpreter in English, brainstorming about film (sound quality rather bad)	discussion: how to make a film in co-operation
1:53	the scene of quarrel between „wife and husband“ -> bank scene	husband usually decides on financial matters
1:55	our problems in filmmaking: editing, script writing ...
1:58	Schulze about filmmaking, speaker’s voice, documenting etc.
2:05	Asha: editing, song good, critique of editing the scenes	editing problems
2:09	Schulze: about film editing, mood of the film, explains confusion while she edited the scenes because dalit women's indications were not clear
2:12	woman*?: beginning of film: day-break, then night scenes ->irrritation	a film's chronology!?
2:13	Schulze gives reasons for editing
2:19	for future project we learnt that contact between editor and script writers should be better, women should not think 'in scenes' but about the film as a whole	thinking out a film
2:24	picture: dark room, light window, again watching one film scene
2:30	discussion ... picture: women leaning against the wall, discussion mainly in Malayalam
2:36	Rema: „it is good, but it is acting“, “we experience our small world”, Schulze asking in English, (background: lots of traffic noise)	acting of amateurs who have not much time experiences in film
2:37	D1: Scene between D3 and D4 “the women had not time to learn the text” -> difficulties for working women amateurs to produce text and acting	a working woman's difficulties to find time to learn her role
2:43	Schulze: “What do you feel about message? That it starts with title and D6’s introduction ...	film’s message of fear of 'globalisation'
2:43	Asha ...
2:45	noise from outside, camera unsteady
	A bit later ...
2:46	Women and Sarat sitting at tables
2:46-2:59	Filmmaker C.Saratchandran in Malayalam picture: speaker and listening, writing women picture: woman sleeping „Coca-cola“, „water“	C. Sarat’s film on Coca Cola and resistance at Platchimada THE BITTER DRINK
3:00	In the afternoon
3:00-3:02	Watching Sarat's EVICTED FROM JUSTICE on Muthanga, women watching film highly interested	C. Sarat’s film on Muthanga EVICTED FROM JUSTICE
3:02-34:11	women at tables, Sarat talking about the difficulties of this kind of filmmaking, construction workers in the yard, piling wood, silence
	Schulze asking about scenes with neighbours’ house women asking questions, commenting to director (in Malayalam)
3:13	D1 speaks ...
3:15	Schulze to D1: „what I found so striking“ -> difference between news and a docu-film, very different coverage of Adivasi-conflict	TV news on Muthanga
3:18-3:42	D1, Sarat, other women discuss Schulze and Sarat in the background, not understandable
3:43-3:51	Asha and Rema who support and talk on Platchimada, reading from a magazine,„adivasi“, „police“, „Kerala“ picture: reader and microphone	women and Platchimada agitation
3:48	woman construction worker in the yard picture: women listening	working women
3:51-4:10	discussion, younger women answering questions
4:10	Schulze: „regarding this extreme form of poisoning the water by –Coca-Cola...government… Platchimada struggle, commodifying all the water resources…
4:15	Asha and Rema answering questions ...
4:17	Schulze: natural phenomena dry areas?
4:18	D1 speaks ...
4:19	Schulze summarising: drying up of wells increased -> experience decaying water levels during the last years	water scarcity
4:22	D1 about water problems, pollution ...	water and pollution
4:23-4:29	women talk on water, wells, pollution, dried-up wells	water and pollution
4:29	Schulze: water problems a major topic in the film? dalit women: also problems with high-caste people	water and casteism
4:31	dalit women: the upperclass women take water for drinking from another well, D5's well is very good, also used by others, but for drinking they go to another well	dalit women and prejudices of high castes against „polluted water“ from dalits
4:35	D1 talks about her well -> neighbour’s daughters fetch water there but only for washing and toilet purposes,
4:39 (end)	the dalit women included this problem in the last film sequence where she also acted of KUDIYIRAKKA ...	KUDIYIRAKKA ... addresses water problems