Cafe Averechts (link) has raised some funds for Telluris: they collected the tips of march and april and doubled the amount. Cafe Averecht does this every two months and Telluris is very pleased with the result: 2200 euros! I made a documentary for Telluris and as a thank you we will be showing it at Cafe Averechts with me and Stephan -founder of Telluris- present.

Telluris tries to help the tribals -the munda in this case- for three years. They are doing pretty well but need a lot more funding. So I thought it would be a good idea to show people how the tribes live, show the good work of Telluris so that people can make their own mind up about giving some money.

I was really amazed by how the munda live and are as human beings. I was a nice welcome to be away from electricity what so ever and to sleep under the stars in a very nice looking clay house. All the appliances are self made, mostly from wood. Everything is done by hand. I was so nice waking up among the animals, the hills and the trees.
The munda are always busy working yet they are such a friendly, hospitable and welcome people. I had such a nice time with them, it made me warm seeing the again editing the material.
A great memory for the rest of my life.

Now the film is finished, come and see it in all it’s subtitled glory!

Here is the movie how it looks in the editing programme on my computer:

Indivisuals and Rebel Up! Soundclash are collaborating on a moving cinema project. The first edition is about the folk music in Rajasthan, India. More specifically the Camel Fair in Pushkar, India. Our first screening was at RebelUp in the OCCII last saterday, the 29th. Seb and I were improvising live -Seb as a DJ with audio and me as a VJ with video- on a running track we edited in advance.

What is Moving Cinema? Moving Cinema is a term coined by Seb to describe the collaboration of live image and sound in a cinematographic way. In our case it is a mix between a documentary and a music video that has a very dream like cinematographic quality to it. It is a live experience! But we hope to make a DVD version of it as well.

The session lasted for an hour, but it felt much shorter. Mixing audio and video live really brings the footage to live and brings a dreamy quality at times. The reaction of the audience was amazing; we really felt inspired to continue with this and bring out many more editions.

About the Pushkar Camel Fair: the Pushkar Camel Fair is a yearly Camel Fair in Pushkar Rajastan. In this desert area 10ths of thousands camels come together with their owners to be traded off. The event lasts for four weeks and there is a festival along side it. There is a carnaval, there are tourist attractions, there is a Mela (festival ground with live performances from all over India) and there are traditional musicians wandering around playing for money. The fair ends in religious all night praying sessions, expressed with singing and live music.

Seb and I headed out to record folk musians and went to the fair hoping to catch a few. We stayed the whole four weeks to get to know the place and the people. We sure did meet a few musicians and we recorded a lot. After Pushkar we continued traveling through northern India for two more month together, recording more mucisians elsewhere.

Pushkar The Camel Fair is our first Moving Cinema project coming out of that trip. More will follow: a Rajasthan Edition and a Punjab -India and Pakisthan!- are in the making.

We will be having more Moving Cinema Editions at RebelUp Soundclash and hopefully else where.

We will post a clip here soon.

The work is done: the first version of the Munda tribe video is finished.

It will be shown in Brussel on November 10, in the Marni Theatre, in Elsenne.

Before 10 october I will make some final adjustments, but it is actually already finished as it is.

I’m quite pleased with the result: the sound and imagse are nice, and a wide range of the tribal’s life is covered.

Telluris – Les Munda, Jharkhand HD.

It took me about a week and a half to film. Editing took an other week. Big part was actually getting the voice over in with the subtitles.

This version is in French. A version with English subtitles of English voice should follow soon.

The idea of the movie

The original idea when I was in India was to make a short documentary about tribals and the way it contrasts with Indian cities. I think tribals and cities are two faces people tend not to know about India. When people think about India, they think about colorful sari’s, hindu rituals, holi men, full trains etc.
India has a lot of nice thinks but I was amazed by the Indian cities. Not by their overcrowdedness -which I think is relatively ok- but by their (air)pollution. And also how the environment is mistreated.
The other surprise I had in India, were the existence of tribes. When I hear ‘tribes’ I think about Latin-America, Southern-Asia, Africa, but not India. So I wanted to know more about them.
I got in touch with Stephan of the NGO Telluris through a friend of his I met in Delhi, and we agreed to meet and try to make a documentary about the tribes and their cause. The tribals are not treated well by Indian officials and sometimes it leads to rebellion. Telluris tries to help the tribals -the munda in this case- for three years. They are doing pretty well but need a lot more funding. So I thought it would be a good idea to show people how the tribes live, show the good work of Telluris so that people can make their own mind up about giving some money.

I was really amazed by how the munda live and are as human beings. I was a nice welcome to be away from electricity what so ever and to sleep under the stars in a very nice looking clay house. All the appliances are self made, mostly from wood. Everything is done by hand. I was so nice waking up among the animals, the hills and the trees.
The munda are always busy working yet they are such a friendly, hospitable and welcome people. I had such a nice time with them, it made me warm seeing the again editing the material.
A great memory for the rest of my life.

Going to the tribal villages on motor bike gives one a full appreciation of the surroundings. As peaceful it is in the villages – especially at night- as hectic it is outside near the bigger cities. Never a dull moment in India. Funny how that lady hops out at the last minute too…