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Up down & sideways = Kho ki pa lü /

"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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Srikumar, Iswar (Director), Anushka Meenakshi (Director), Malhotra, Manas (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:Sino-Tibetan (Other)
Language Notes:In Chokri Naga, with English subtitles.
Published: Portland, OR : Collective Eye Films, 2018.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
East Indians > Music.
Work songs > India > Phek.
Folk music > India > Phek.
Rice farmers > India > Phek.
Phek (India) > Social life and customs.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Musique.
East Indians
Folk music
Manners and customs
Rice farmers
Work songs
India > Phek
documentary film.
Documentary films
Feature films
Music
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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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.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed November 20, 2019).
Physical Description:1 online resource (84 minutes)
Playing Time:01:23:01
Awards:Nominee 2018 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Best Documentary Feature Film
Won 2017 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Directors' Guild of Japan Award
Won 2017 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, New Asian Currents Award for Excellence
Won 2017 Cinema Planeta, International Environmental Film Festival of Mexico, Best Film