Retelling the tale of Tenali Rama and The Brahmins: an ethno-fiction experiment
On 6th of July, our house was transformed into a film set. I live with a Banarasi family and their distant relatives in a three storeyed, courtyard house at the Panchganga Ghat, close to Thateri Bazaar in Varanasi. In total, we are 9 people living in the house. Espírito Kashi, our little office is […]
Folklore 2.0 | Rural film screenings
It took us some years to realise that the we are not after sustainability of our film, but the sustainability of the folklore itself. This is a huge task and surely the conventional preservationist model does no good in that regard. We do not want to make films and put them in archives and museums, […]
When river meets the sea | A viewer’s account of experiencing film-screening of Janeu: Bhojpuri Initiation Rites and Folk Songs.
By Jennifer D | May 14th, 2016 The recently concluded Delhi screening of Janeu, interested those who still wished to be associated with the enchanted world of myths, rituals and folk songs rather than the politics, scientificity and rationality of it, which pre-occupies the disenchanted modern day. Rightly pointed at the beginning as rite de […]
Releasing our new ethnographic film, Janeu | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs
Short Synopsis While rituals in India are majorly seen as men’s job, not many know that women hold an equally important role in the purification rituals – of expressing the emotions that develop during the ritual through songs. The film documents the folk songs sung during the initiation ritual (Janeu or Upanayana) in the Bhadwar […]
Co-produce our next film Janeu | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs
Beloved friends, We would like to thank you for your association and continued support for our young organisation – Espírito Kashi. In the last years we have worked much harder and found new platforms to take our films. We have also started working towards building an online archive of folk songs. As you understand, safeguarding the Intangible […]
Our short film will be screened at EASA 2016
Pleased to let you all know that our short film ‘Crossing a River, Losing a Self : Retelling an ancient Indian folk tale‘, has been selected in the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA 2016) conference – Anthropological legacies and human futures. EASA 2016 will be hosted at the Department of Human Science for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’ […]
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