Content_DV_XIII 

 

Overview

0:00-4:08

13.03.-15.03.2003

D.-women in Attappady: workshop II B at AHADS,

with adivasi women who are organised in groups

4:08-4:15

08.03.2003

Remaining part of the documentation of workshop II A, D.-women (main part is on DV_II)

 

 

Time

Content

Inter-Facing

0:00

13.03.03 B.Schulze and seven d.-women: “we start from Kottayam” by train

Marginal women travelling

0:00-0:12

[picture]: women reading and talking

- photograph of Adivasi activist in newspaper,

- D.-women’s children are with us,

- between Palghat and Coimbatore deforestation visible,

Sound: talk and train

train journey from Kottayam to Coimbatore

0:12:15

Change of location: Attappady

 

 

before the ‚training centre’ where we stay in the dark, saris were washed and put for drying in the air

Saris on the fence like in saree film

0:14

landscape in the last rays of sunlight, dawn

[Sound]: Schulze talks with P.E. Usha and an adivasi women in English and Malayalam

 

0:19-0:31

Sound: songs/ singing and dances of the adivasi women and Usha,  D.-women sitting, clapping, asking them about their songs and their languages

women’s songs >>

on CD-AU

0:32-0:32

[camera set to record only audio because of darkness]

 

0:33

Schulze also asks about the local adivasi languages,

women talking

 

0:35-0:55

[some visuals, some ‘audio only’] women dancing and singing ...

adivasi women’s body language

0:55

night sounds, moon

 

 

14.03.2003, early morning

 

1:03

landscape and houses around AHADS

birds singing

Attappady landscape

1:06

child is bathed, workshop participants outside the village, river and bank

 

1:09

woman cleaning trays

 

1:10

Marykutty outside

 

 

Change of location, inside

 

1:11

workshop starts: women and children around TV set

Adivasi women and P.E. Usha watch kudiyirakkapped...

1:11-2:25

women discuss, talk about their feelings

workshop IIB-protocol >>

1:16

one woman shares her feelings on kudiyirakkapped ...

 

1:40

vivid discussion

 

2:04

[third Mini tape starts] women discussing

 

2:25

[getting tired] end of discussion on kudiyirakkapped ...

 

 

Change of location: D.-women visit nearby adivasi village

 

2:25

on the bus:

-         women on the bus

-         landscape

-         women talking

region Agali – adivasi poverty in villages, water scarcity

 

 

 

 

Change of location: adivasi village

 

2:26

women outside, Schulze asking in Malayalam about crops, water access

agriculture of adivasis

2:28

village school

-         bare floor, papers on the wall, mainly women and children, talking

poor adivasi village school

2:30

-         „lady teacher, government employee“

-         signs and posters, partly in Malayalam

 

2:33

-         children singing

-         Schulze recites

children’s song

2:38

Outside: too bright sunlight

 

2:38

D.-women and B.Schulze are guided through the village by adivasi women

 

2:40

one D.-woman takes notes about water scarcity

water scarcity

2:45

little children

 

2:48

discussion about electricity etc, view of village

 

2:54-3:03

women discussing with Moopan (village chieftain)

Moopan

3:04

women and landscape

 

3:05-3:06

talking about agriculture, close to Agalia

agriculture close to Agali

 

15.03.2003 back at the women’s training centre

 

3:06

D.-women sing their song from kudiyirakkapped ...

Discussion: D.-women’s impressions on the adivasi village life

D.- womens‘ song

3:55

 

 

adivasi woman sings song

D.-women discuss on adivasi women problems>>

4:08

(End of 4. Mini tape)

water problem

 

Change of location

Final part of the documentation on workshopIIA. At Man-ganam (Kottayam) on 08.03.03 (first part on DV-II)

-> D1:”water pollution through caste!?” as shown in

kudiyirakkappedunavar ...

 

4:08

 

water and caste

 

Schulze: „But one never talks directly about “ this casteist thinking and feeling, acting in daily life situations ...

 

4:12

Also public tap problems addressed in kudiyirakkapped ...

deficit public water supply

4:13

Schulze: summing up

 

4:15

[End of Mini, 08.03.03]

 

>> refers to texts on this indexed topic under “Kerala Womens’ Cinema&Self Praxis”