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Films
21 Films
Region
“South Asia”
x
Keywords
“Children Young people”
x
films with a digital version
3
short films
6
films available on demand
2
Region
South Asia
21
x
Country
Afghanistan
1
India
20
Nepal
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
21
x
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
10
Education / Knowledge transmission
5
Everyday Life
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and Identity
3
Health / Health care / Healing
2
Informant-researcher relationship
2
Intergenerational relations
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Rural
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Sport
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
2
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
2
Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Baily, John
1
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Kashyap, Kumar
1
Kumar, Shikha
1
MacDougall, David
12
MacDougall, Judith
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Roy, Rahul
1
Shivhare, Ravi
1
Singh, Anshu
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Series
Doon School Project
5
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
not set
13
Country of production
Argentina
1
Australia
12
Finland
1
India
5
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
2000
3
2001
2
2002
1
2003
1
2004
1
2005
1
2007
1
2008
2
2010
1
2011
1
2012
2
2013
3
2018
2
Film list
The Age of Reason
2004
87
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
In this fifth and final film in the Doon School quintet, MacDougall focuses on the life of one student whom he discovers at the school. The film was made in parallel with ‘The New Boys’ and
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Informant-researcher relationship
Arnav At Six
2012
28
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Filmed as a collaborative project with Arnav Koshy in 2008, this film explores the mind and activities of an intelligent and observant child of six. Arnav is fascinated by the geology, plant-life,
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Awareness
2011
67
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Krishnamurti, ‘Awareness’ explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teenagers,
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
The Child’s Eye
2018
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in
South Asia
Children / Young people
Informant-researcher relationship
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Delhi at Eleven
2013
82
‘
Directed by
Ravi Shivhare
Anshu Singh
Kumar Kashyap
Shikha Kumar
.
This film presents the work of four young filmmakers of New Delhi. From March to May 2012 they took part in a video workshop at the CIE Experimental Basic School, a government primary school. Each of
South Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Doon School Chronicles
2000
140
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
David MacDougall’s long term visual study completed. The Doon School, located in Dehra Dun in Uttaranchal, is perhaps the most famous boys’ boarding school in India. Although it has sometimes been
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Gandhi’s Children
2008
185
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half are held under a court
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Karam in Jaipur
2001
54
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This third film in the Doon School quintet follows the main protagonist of ‘With Morning Hearts’ into the next phase of his life in Jaipur House, one of the five main houses of the school. There he
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge transmission
Sport
Kusum
2000
69
‘
Directed by
Jouko Aaltonen
Antti Pakaslahti
.
Kusum is a 14-year-old Indian girl. She lives and attends school in Delhi. Kaushal, her father, drives a motorised rickshaw and works his fingers to the bone to support his family. Sumitra, Kusum’s
South Asia
Children / Young people
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
Lessons from the Tiger
2010
22
‘
Directed by
Ife Olatunji
.
A brief glimpse into the Foundation Fior Di Loto girls’ school, this film explores the competing ideas of traditional and contemporary womanhood in Rajasthan, India. Four girls introduce us to the
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
The New Boys
2003
100
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The social dynamics of the group is the focus of this study of life in Foot House, one of Doon School’s dormitories for new boys. It begins a few days before the boys appear and shows them
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Collective / Community identity
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
‘
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Ravi and Bhajay
2002
26
‘
Directed by
Rachel Webster
.
Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with the film-maker. But the call of life on the streets is still strong.
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Urban
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
SchoolScapes
2007
77
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Inspired by the cinema of Lumière and the ideas of the 20th century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, David MacDougall follows up the Doon School Quintet, his series of films about a traditional
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge transmission
Film / Photography / Mass media
Some Alien Creatures
2005
74
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. In this film about a progressive
South Asia
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Education / Knowledge Transmission
A Spark in Him
2008
28
‘
Directed by
Claudia Engels
.
‘A Spark in Him’ is a film about the life story of Sajay Kumar, a young man without arms who lives in a home for disabled children in Kerala, India, and studies at the College of Fine Arts. By
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Tara’s footprint
2018
70
‘
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Georgina Barreiro
.
Tara’s Footprint skilfully conjures the atmosphere of Khechuperi, a village in the Himalayas in north eastern India. Eschewing standard exposition the film follows four young siblings as they go
South Asia
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Everyday Life
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Rural
Under the Palace Wall
2013
53
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now a luxury hotel – a
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
When Four Friends Meet
2000
43
‘
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
Urban
With Morning Hearts
2001
110
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film continues MacDougall’s long-term study of an elite boys’ boarding school in northern India. It focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds during their first year in one of the ‘houses’ for new
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission