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The Song Collector
directed by Erik Koto, fl. 2016; produced by Stanzin Dawa Chonjor, fl. 2016; performed by Morup Namgyal, 1947- (Portland, OR: Collective Eye Films, 2016), 54 mins
Set high in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh is home to a rich Buddhist culture and an ancient tradition of folk singing. In the 1960s as economic development thrust change upon Ladakh, Morup Namgyal, Ladakh's greatest folk artist, began his lifelong efforts to preserve his beloved folk songs. Using song as the medium,...
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directed by Erik Koto, fl. 2016; produced by Stanzin Dawa Chonjor, fl. 2016; performed by Morup Namgyal, 1947- (Portland, OR: Collective Eye Films, 2016), 54 mins
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Set high in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh is home to a rich Buddhist culture and an ancient tradition of folk singing. In the 1960s as economic development thrust change upon Ladakh, Morup Namgyal, Ladakh's greatest folk artist, began his lifelong efforts to preserve his beloved folk songs. Using song as the medium, Morup and his peers sparked a social movement that would bring about profound and enduring change in Ladakh. It was a movement built o...
Set high in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh is home to a rich Buddhist culture and an ancient tradition of folk singing. In the 1960s as economic development thrust change upon Ladakh, Morup Namgyal, Ladakh's greatest folk artist, began his lifelong efforts to preserve his beloved folk songs. Using song as the medium, Morup and his peers sparked a social movement that would bring about profound and enduring change in Ladakh. It was a movement built on education, tradition, and preservation.
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Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Documentary
Performer / Ensemble
Morup Namgyal, 1947-
Contributor
Stanzin Dawa Chonjor, fl. 2016
Author / Creator
Erik Koto, fl. 2016, Morup Namgyal, 1947-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Topic / Theme
Folk Song, Ladakhi
Copyright Message
Copyright © The Song Collector, LLC 2016. All Rights Reserved.
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Up Down & Sideways
directed by Iswar Srikumar, fl. 2017 and Anushka Meenakshi, fl. 2017; produced by Manas Malhotra, fl. 2005, Uramili Project (Portland, OR: Collective Eye Films, 2018), 1 hour 23 mins
“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 —...
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directed by Iswar Srikumar, fl. 2017 and Anushka Meenakshi, fl. 2017; produced by Manas Malhotra, fl. 2005, Uramili Project (Portland, OR: Collective Eye Films, 2018), 1 hour 23 mins
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“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 cult...
“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.
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Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Manas Malhotra, fl. 2005, Uramili Project
Author / Creator
Iswar Srikumar, fl. 2017, Anushka Meenakshi, fl. 2017
Date Published / Released
2017, 2018
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Topic / Theme
Nagamese, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2019 Collective Eye Films
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