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1 online resource (84 minutes) |
| Summary |
"If not for you, I have no other true love When we work together the sun sets early Without you I am nothing" Close to the India - Myanmar border is the village of Phek in Nagaland. Around 5000 people live here, almost all of whom cultivate rice for their own consumption. As they work in cooperative groups -- preparing the terraced fields, planting saplings, or harvesting the grain and carrying it up impossibly steep slopes -- the rice cultivators of Phek sing. The season's change, and so does the music, transforming the mundane into the hypnotic. The love that they sing of is also a metaphor for the need for the other - the friend, the family, the community, to build a polyphony of voices. Stories of love, stories of the field, stories of song, stories in song. 'Up Down & Sideways' is a musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators and their memories of love and loss, created from working together on the fields. It is the first feature film from the u-ra-mi-li project, a larger body of work that looks at the connections between music and labor |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed November 20, 2019) |
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In Chokri Naga, with English subtitles |
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Nominee 2018 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Best Documentary Feature Film |
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Won 2017 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Directors' Guild of Japan Award |
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Won 2017 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, New Asian Currents Award for Excellence |
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Won 2017 Cinema Planeta, International Environmental Film Festival of Mexico, Best Film |
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East Indians -- Music
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Work songs -- India -- Phek
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Folk music -- India -- Phek
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Rice farmers -- India -- Phek
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East Indians.
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Folk music.
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Manners and customs.
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Rice farmers.
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Work songs.
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Phek (India) -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
India -- Phek.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Music.
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Srikumar, Iswar, director
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Anushka Meenakshi, director
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Malhotra, Manas, producer
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