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Overview

0:00-0:35	09.09.01	Kurichy, DWS. Schulze on Ente Lokam Project
0:35-2:32		Discussion on Onam-Films „Ravanna Prabhu“ and NMJV
2:32- 2:37	23.-25.01.03	Kurichy: Schulze with Priya at Lovely's torn down house
2:37-2:48	24.01.03	Attappady area: Usha and Vijayalakshmi (Sarang)
2:48-3:39	25.01.03	Kurichy, DWS women and Schulze „Planning the film“

Time	Content	Inter-Facing
	09.09.01 Kurichy
0:00	Outside, street in Kurichy
0:00:54-0:03	Center of DWS, outside, then Inside: meeting of some women, Lovely translates,
0:05-0:09	Schulze explains cinema-watching as project	cinema critique of
0:09-0:13	Lovely translates	marginalised women
0:13	Schulze explains Ente lokam project è criticism of media images è reference to Dr. Jayasree(Sex Workers' Forum) from Trivandrum) è about women and media in Kerala
0:17	- background: violence against women	violence
0:19	- showing and hiding of feelings	feelings
0:22	- suicides because of „emotional disturbance“	suicides
0:25-0:27	Aim: discussion on relationship media-cinema-women’s lives, to foster active role against influences of consumer society	consumer society
0:27-0:35	Lovely translates
	Women comment on Onam-films, (popular cinema), translator	Onam films seen by marginal women
0:35:3	Marykutty: problems to go to cinema (air condition)
0:37	Aliyamma: knows actors and actresses from cable-TV ... her opinion on female Panchayat (village council) president (PP) in NMJV	NMJV
0:42-0:45	Schulze asks other women about female PP and certain scenes of a party meeting with only men acting	woman Panchayat president
0:46 0:49	Nisha: liked NMJV because of female PP, who acted responsibly and justly (in contrast to other officials)	female PP acts justly
0:52	Schulze: what would the prospects for such a woman be in real life Kerala?
0:53	Nisha: Film is encouraging, but no real woman would have these possibilities in Kerala	woman PP without chance in Kerala
0:56	-> female president could not act against the men’s will in her party	suppressive party politics
0:57	Schulze: 2 Muslim women, smart, want to gain computer knowledge, independent, is that realistic?	smart Muslim women
V	Nisha: women could say to men: shut up, but in reality these wouldn´t listen	men careless about women's ideas
1:02	Jalaja went to ‚Ravanna Prabhu’ (Mohanlal), but she did not like it	RPR
	Schulze: what kind of audience, how she feels about the role of Mohanlal?	Mohanlal
1:06	flash-back not clear, relationship to doctor’s daughter
1:14	Schulze: opinion on ‚Ravanna Prabhu’?
1:15	Jalaja: liked ‘Devasuram’, but not this film, there´s no strong female character, singing and dancing were boring	missed strong female character
1:20	Schulze: why is the doctor´s daughter no strong woman? (in Devasuram the dancer was a strong female character), how did they like the fighting scenes?	DEVASURAM
1:23	Other ?*woman: ‘Ravanna Prabhu’, in ‘Devasuram’, Mohanlal was not a completely bad character, but he was changed by the woman towards the good	hero‘good-and-bad’, the woman changed the hero to 'good'
1:26	Schulze summarizes differences in women’s roles in ‚Devasuram’ und ‚Ravanna Prabhu’	women’s roles
1:28	Jalaja on differing roles of Mohanlal in both films
1:31	Priya: Women have no important role in this film (‘Ravanna Prabhu’), even the lady-doctor as heroine has no strong will
	Schulze: scene in adivasi village?
1:37	Priya: Kidnapping of the heroine by Mohanlal alludes to mythology, also the film title ...	mythology
1:39	Priya's view on cinema changed by these discussions in our women’s group, more analysing	dalit women learnt to analyse films
	Schulze: feelings on ‚Ravanna Prabhu’?
	Jalaja: didn’t miss much, though she couldn’t see half of the film	J. doesn’t like RPR
1:42	Priya: Kalabhavan Mani (actor) plays a cruel character, film is without morals, no important woman’s role: RAKSHASARAJAVU	RR
1:45	woman*? in white sari: film RR shows the real life because it shows corruption, violence etc. - Mammootty (male hero) fights for justice, but there´s no strong woman in this film	RR shows real life corruption, violence, hero for justice, no strong woman
1:48	Priya: scene with women of the orphanage led away by police was very brutal	police brutality shown
	Schulze: change of woman from sexually active to calm, passive, why?
1:51	woman*? in white sari: this woman is not good, she changes for egoistic reasons only because she wants to marry the hero	„woman not good“
1:53	Nisha: on the one hand the film is not realistic because hero is not hurt by bomb, but corrupt politicians are realistic	corrupt politicians realistic
	Schulze: Nisha says the film is not realistic ...?
1:56	Nisha (in brown dress and white shawl): parties politics and corruption are realistic, rest is not
1:57-1:57	Schulze: is this film and NMJV not very critical about Kerala? -e.g. in NMJV hero claims his inherited land but has no support from official side, is attacked with bombs, Keralites are corrupt and violent. Tamils fight for justice ...? Also, it seems love is not possible in Kerala; justice and love only possible in Tamil country?!	violence in Kerala, Tamil man fights for justice true love impossible in Kerala but in TN
1:59	woman*? in red and yellow Sari: film makes no general statements on Kerala, only one specific case	Kerala image?
2:00-2:02	Schulze counters with more scenes from NMJV
2:05	woman in red and yellow sari: film shows that in Kerala not the people matter but the market - is an airport important for village women (irony?) three important women: muslim woman, the female president, Devi’s mother	market over people in Kerala strong women
2:09	woman*? in pink sari: likes the woman who forgives ... shows love	women like the caring characters: love
2:15	Schulze: scene with imprisonment and torture because of supposed robbery, how do you feel about it? - explains that her feelings about Kerala resemble this: on the surface things look beautiful, but underneath they are oppressive, especially to women, with little chance for improvement	oppressive atmosphere in Kerala: violence
2:22	Schulze: liked scene with two women leaning close together
2:23	another woman appears: couldn’t come to the first meeting
	Lovely explains her what happened in the group to far
2:24	Schulze summarises: so far topics were violence, love – which other topics would be interesting for own films?	film topics: love, violence ...
2:32	Shylamma's baby girl playing ...
	23.-25.01.03 Attappady, around AHADS	Attappady
2:32	Kuruchy: TV (video: Kallorupenne), DWS-women in front
2:34	outside, B. Schulze and Priya at the side of Lovely's house which has partly been torn down „you want to go upstairs?“ [there is no upstairs left] Lovely's house rebuilt
2:37	Schulze: „and she used this hammer” showing the hammer
	24.01.03 Attappady, ‚Sarang’, Schulze and P.E.Usha	‚Sarang’
2:38-2:46	Outside: Usha and Vijayalakshmi (V.lakshmi) at ‚Sarang’, V.lakshmi's house, their former school for adivasi children, picture: Malayalam letters on the wall, ouside bushes, in the background Usha and V.lakshmi talk, Sound: insects and women talking Schulze: names of plants, straw on the ground sound: V.lakshmi talks about fires spreading in the forest, and working hard, ... Usha and woman talking	forest fires
	25.01.03 Attappady in the morning, AHADS guesthouse
2:46-2:48	Outside: countryside in morning dusk Sound: nature, and some traffic from the road
2:49	Change of place – Date?* 2003: DWS centre, Kurichy, “Planning the film” KUDIYIRA .../DISPLACED PEOPLE Inside: Priya, Marykutty and another woman*? talking Sound: talking and noise from outside	KUDIYIRA.../ DISPLACED PEOPLE
2:52-3:00	Schulze and others planning for the shooting, appointments, being on time, ?*Lovely talking calendar and sculpture on the wall, more women come	planning our film
3:00-3:16	Woman in blue sari?*, Lovely: talks about script of planned film, women talking in Malayalam, lovely translates; topics: money, husbands’ alcoholism, bank, water, water scarcity, 'caste impurity' of water !?	problems of dalit women: money, alcoholism, water shortage, casteism
3:17	Schulze: explains script writing and storyboard
3:22-3:39	women discussing filming
3:30	„advertising in newspaper“, „toffee“
3:34	problem of filming in shops
3:39	Bank
3:39 (end)