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Overview

0:00-1:09

10.09.01

Noorji’s Marriage (low-caste, Ezhava woman, granddaughter of S. with whom B. Schulze made the inter-view on NMJV)

1:09-1:22

17.09.01

street scene Kottayam town: waiting for C.K.Janu who journeyed to Trivandrum while campaigning for adivasi land

 

 

 

 

 

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Content

Inter-Facing

0:00-0:02:13

impressions of street and lanes of M., a village close to Kottayam, sign: „Steel works“, other signs, plants

 

0:02:15

Inside: house and yard with family members and wedding guests, preparations (house of bride’s parents)

bride's house

0:03:-0:05

Schulze talks to Noorji, her parents in Malayalam

 

0:05:48-~0:13

the bride, at home, inside the house, photographer takes family pictures with bride and others

photographs of the bride

0:15-0:21

ceremony with oil lamp, picture of Sree Guru Narayanan (Ezhava reformer)

Sree Guru Narayanan

0:21-0:23

praying with the bride

 

0:23:40

Ezhava temple

Ezhava temple

0:25

old women waiting in front of temple, sound: street

 

0:27-0:30

bride waiting outside, wedding car, other women outside, noisy

 

0:30-0:32

priests, rituals, oil lamps and fruits on the floor

priests

0:32-0:33

bridegroom arrives

 

0:33-0:36

Waiting: priests, ... wedding guests having soft drinks

 

0:36-0:38

priests on the floor

 

0:38

bride outside, again wedding photographs

photographs

0:39

bride carries bowl

 

0:41-0:49

couple: main ceremony, praying, wedding photographs

-         bridegroom fixes the mangalsutra (wife's necklace) on her, couple walks in circles around priests

main ceremony

photographs

priests

0:49-0:52

bridegroom receives jewellery

 

0:52-0:54

praying with priests, both walk around parents, too

 

0:54

the couple

 

0:56-1:03

photos of the two with different relatives, waiting wedding guests, women in colourful saris, mother and female relatives

photographs

1:02

woodwork of the temple

wedding guests waiting

temple

1:04

bridal couple in the front room, sign a marriage document

 

1:05

wedding guests waiting

 

1:07-1:08

photos of the two with various relatives

photos

1:09

big hall: hundreds of guests eating, men and women separated

marriage banquet

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.09.01 Kottayam town, centre close to main temple

 

1:09

Outside: street life – we wait for C.K. Janu on her protest tour for adivasi land, Jalaja is there, Harris, later feminists Elizabeth and Aneela come, too. B. Schulze films them close to children’s library, and walks by „Indian College Tailoring Institut“; sound: Indian pop music and traffic

C.K. Janu's land agitation 2001

1:12

Bus: „Jesus ..“, in front of the cinema where we had seen NMJV:„Anaswara“, outside, B. Schulze and Jalaja look at the cinema posters (NMJV, a Hindi, English film ...)

Anaswara’ cinema theatre after Onam 2001

1:13

Sound off: Schulze talks to Jalaja in English looking at the posters, cinema entrance, movie posters and photos  „Planet of the Apes“,  ... „NMJV“

cinema programme

mid Sept. 2001

1:15

Outside the cinema, it is sunday, therefore the street is

quiet with less people, a few streets further

 

1:17-1:23(End)

Demonstration of solidarity - with very few people only - with C.K. Janu’s adivasi land struggle, monsoon rain, traffic, many police forces - men around the podium

[this scene Schulze documents in her film with thornwings under their feet towards the light ...

C.K. Janu in Sept. 2001

Schulze’s film with thornwings under their feet ...