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Overview

0:00-1:50

17.02.2002

Dalit women's location, meeting to prepare 'Ente lokam' (EL)

1:50-2:02

28.02.02

outside shootings: village at dawn

2:02-3:45

01.03.2002

Shootings at dalit women's location for EL

3:45-4:33

02.03.2002

Shootings at dalit women's location for EL

 

Time

Content

Inter-Facing

 

17.02.2002: Meeting at dalit women's location

 

0:00

Outside: dalit women's centre, sign on the house

 

 

Inside: dalit women sitting on the ground, D10 explains in Malayalam; Schulze tells about her ideas:“ 5 minutes approx., but don´t make so much fuss about the 5 minutes ..., thinking about editing…”, storyboards Ente lokam films

storyboard EL

 

editing

0:03

Picture: crow in the window, women joined in groups, drawing storyboards, baby playing, silence

Sound: silent, Schulze commenting

preparing storyboards

 

0:07

picture: women draw their frames

 

0:11

Schulze: „every woman should say what she remembers ... finds difficult..”

 

0:12-1:50

women explain their storyboards, D10 translates to English, Schulze interprets storyboards

discussing story-boards

0:12

D1: „...I start very early this morning....“-> about what she has done this morning

Schulze explains importance of storyboard

woman rises early morning

0:18

D4: „men playing cards ... many families are ruined ... when her husband finds work, he goes to work, but ….”

close-up of drawings

men's bad gambling habits ruining families

0:21-0:28

Schulze: off: looking and describing storyboards, women sitting, looking and drawing, D10 and older woman talking

sketchbook

 

0:28

D2: her day so far was getting up, to church where she met other woman who wants to have child baptised, asked her if she would be godmother; very poor baptising made her sad

D2’s compassion

0:33

Schulze suggests inclusion of this story in the storyboard

 

0:34-0:39

D10: we will ask these people if they agree to film the baby,

Schulze: „Film is especially a media of emotion”,

talk about advantage of film

 

0:40

the room, woman with sketchbook, Schulze „reads“ the storyboard: family together praying ...

family prayers

0:45

Schulze “reads” D9's storyboard: …kitchen, church … lunch ... TV … hospital .. preparing meal ... husband

kitchen, church

TV

0:48-0:56

picture: Rabia, D7’s very sweet baby girl,

D7 in her storyboard: ..."unhappy woman" ... all her dreams are nightmares ... makes coffee, dreams of own house and a kitchen…meeting with neighbours, husband has no work... he does loading and unloading of lorries but not regular and badly paid -> cannot fulfil her dreams

unhappy woman

dreams are night-mares, own a house, kitchen, husband has no regular work

0:58-1:04

Schulze: our workshop we'll have on the weekend 9th and 10th of March, view and discuss our 'Ente Lokam' films

picture: women, child

 

1:05

D6’s storyboard: 6:30 a.m.giving tuition, later to a computer centre ... her widowed mother, land belongs to family of dead father ... problems

woman as tutor,

woman and computer, woman ...

 

1:12

 

Schulze: suggestions for films, how to express their feelings through film frames ...

... has no land

 

24.02.2002 – next Sunday meeting at dalit women's location

 

1:14

Outside: dalit women's centre, inside: women, posters on wall, one image of Jesus Christ, women doing various things ...

Jesus Christ

1:19

picture: children, women

Sound: D10 and Schulze talk about freedom /opportunities for women in Kerala „...one thinks the dalit women have more freedom and equality with their husbands... but that´s not true… Dalit Women are free to go on street, but no … political freedom“

"dalit women are not more free" says a dalit woman

 

no political freedom

1:22

D10: “ The dalit woman has the freedom to do …  but only what her family likes, she must never question the man…”

family defines a woman’s freedom

1:24

picture: woman and child in front of paravent

D10 translates and explains tasks in Malayalam, women asking their questions

 

1:31-1:40

Storyboard ?*X - picture shows storyboard: the woman is praying, she thinks of husband, children, breakfast ... thoughts - discussion between Schulze, D10 and this woman what in the film is to be shown, and how

woman thinking of husband, kids

1:41

D10: “you are bringing something to a public ...for god’s sake, we are taking…” -> discussion on how contents of film will be judged by others

 

1:43

Schulze 'reads' D7's story:“D7’s normal activities … wishes to have a nice house .. a place to sit and meet the women of the neighbourhood . ..”

picture: storyboard

"a place of one's own" - dalit women like to meet other women and discuss

1:46-1:50

D3's storyboard: breakfast ... afternoon, fetching fuel and water, working in paddy field

picture: storyboard

cooking, fetching fuel, water

work in paddy field

 

Change of location: B.S. shoots some material for early morning scenes

 

1:50-2:02

village road, trees, birds, animals, plants ...

Sounds: birds, village noise (recording for sounds for EL- films)

 

 

Change of location and time

 

 

01.03.2002, shooting at dalit women's location

 

2:02-2:04

Outside: full moon, night sounds (B.S.’s house)

 

2:04-2:12

Change of location:  D4’s house, inside: room with huge wooden Jesus Christ. D4 in the kitchen, preparing breakfast,

outside: house and her family, and neighbours, we talk

inside: D4 reads the bible

Jesus Christ

 

kitchen, cooking

neighbours

bible reading

2:12-2:21

Change of location: at D2’s house - close to D4's house,

outside, around the house, well, inside the house D2 is praying, reading the bible, then she talks to the camera about her difficult life, her worries for her children and grand children, she is in the family kitchen

D1 and D2 arms around their shoulders

prayer, bible reading

her worries

 

 

women friends

2:21-2:36

Change of location: D6’s house, outside D6 with a student from the neighbourhood whom she gives tuition in English,

D6 is walking through the village, then she sits with the same student in the afternoon. D6 and other women sit down with their children and discuss news. Around D6's house a small field, her mother at the well, banana plants,

inside: D6 and her mother sleeping, rising ...

woman teaching

 

 

women meeting and discussing

 

Change of location: shooting for D7’s and D4’s films

 

2:36-2:51

D5’s and D7’s husbands help to improvise the making of country liquor, and also playing cards.

Inside: D7 with her baby in the kitchen-cum-bedroom, she serves coffee to her husband. Outside: D9's mother-in-law goes for her harvest work in the paddy fields: fields and water, ducks, birds, she harvests the paddy, walks barefoot

surroundings

men make liquor,

play cards,

a woman's kitchen

woman working in

paddy fields

2:51-2:58

Outside: women sitting together close to D7's house

women discussing

2:58-3:02

Inside: D7's kitchen, her child is there in a cradle, D7 busy in the small kitchen which she shares with mother-in-law

 

 

Change of location: D3’s house

 

3:03-3:25

Outside: paddy in front of house - husband dehusks it.

Inside: family sleeping, getting up, reading from the bible,

D3 in her very dark kitchen; outside: D3's husband busy with the paddy; inside: family breakfast with TV news (curfew because of Godhra massacre)

rice for home consumption

family bible reading and singing

TV

3:15

Outside: fetching water with husband, chicken, dehusking paddy. Inside: Jalaja cooking, then washing clothes outside

water fetched also by husband

cooking

washing

 

01.03.2002, change of location: D5’s house

 

3:25-3:38

Outside the house: D5 leaves early morning for the field, dressed in man’s clothes. Inside: family sleeping, D5 says her prayers, preparing breakfast, tea for husband.

Outside: D5 fetching water, washing clothes.

Inside: family praying and singing together, supper.

field work

praying

cooking

fetching water

washing

family prayers and songs, supper

3:45-3:49

Street, working men at dalit women's location, a junction

Outside: Board of a Coop Bank,

sign board in Malayalam

woman employee

 

shooting of D8’s film

 

3:50-4:03

Outside: D8 leaves her house, reads paper, visits D9, her friend; inside D9's house both read and comment papers, talk, eat a late lunch together, D9's kitchen, cooking.

Outside: D8 and D9 leave for a school festival

women reading newspaper and discussing

women eating together

4:03-4:07

Change of location: D1’s house

Outside: trees, pond with fishes

rearing fish

4:07-4:25

D1’s house. Inside: pot in the kitchen .... D1 reading bible, singing - her husband silently follows what she does, also saying his prayers, fetching water - going to neighbours, D1's friends come and sit inside, outside goats. Inside: her visiting friends D2 and D4 and D1 discuss something.

D1 folding paper bags at very low piece rate, cooking, serving tea to her husband, D1 and her husband praying,

D1 reading newspaper.

bible reading and

praying with husband

fetching water

women often meet their friends to discuss matters, do

lowly paid piece rate work, kitchen

4:25-4:33(end)

Change of location: outside close to a banana plantation D6 is looking towards sun set; Schulze with D6 packing after the shooting, making jokes, Suresh films them, he is Schulze's research assistant.

Inside D4's house: D4’s husband sleeping, then rising ...

Outside: night, sounds