| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (40 min.)) : sound, color |
| Summary |
For generations, Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal, India have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The Patuas tell the stories of Muslim saints (pirs and fakirs) as well as Hindu Gods and Goddesses, and offer devotion to saints at Muslim shrines. This film shows an organized group of women scroll painters from the village of Naya, India, chronicling their lives and how they are adapting their art to reflect current social issues as well as traditional themes addressed in their scrolls. The women discuss the social, political and religious issues that inform their art and influence their daily lives, and how they are responding to the changing conditions in their communities |
| Notes |
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2005 |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Alfred Guzzetti ; additional cinematography, Ákos Östö̈r ; edited by Shawn Hainsworth ; sound recording, Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östö̈r |
| Performer |
Manu Chitrakar, Meena Chitrakar, Rupban Chitrakar, Manimala Chitrakar, Hazar Chitrakar, Moyna Chitrakar, Rani Chitrakar |
| Event |
Recorded in Noya, Midnapore, West Bengal, India |
| Notes |
Bengali dialogue and songs; with English subtitles; closed-captioned in English |
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Online resource; title from title frames (Alexander Street Press, viewed September 24, 2017) |
| Subject |
Juang (Indic people) -- Social conditions
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Juang (Indic people) -- Social life and customs
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Women -- India -- Midnapore (District) -- Social conditions
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Women -- India -- West Bengal -- Social conditions
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Patas (Art) -- India -- Midnapore (District)
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Painting, Bengali -- India -- Midnapore (District)
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Songs, Bengali -- India -- Midnapore (District)
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Manners and customs.
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Painting, Bengali.
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Patas (Art)
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Songs, Bengali.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Midnapore (India : District) -- Social life and customs
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India -- Midnapore (District)
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India -- West Bengal.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary
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Internet videos.
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Documentary films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Short films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Ethnographic films.
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Documentary films.
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Short films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Films ethnographiques.
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Documentaires.
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Courts métrages.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Fruzzetti, Lina, film director, film producer, recordist.
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Östör, Ákos, film director, film producer, director of photography, recordist.
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Sarkar, Aditi Nath, film director.
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Guzzetti, Alfred, director of photography
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Hainsworth, Shawn, editor of moving image work.
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Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), publisher.
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