Nomad roots (trailer)

Synopsis

So many realities in need to be expressed, situations to be improved ...
how to understand each other, making films from inside the comunities.
In these five independent chapters of the same project: nomad eyes, we will travel inside asian realities, through their protagonists own point of view, expressing their needs by participating in the film process, not as victims but as potential creators, taking direct role on the filmaking process of these documentaries (camara, sound, interview, realization, script, photo, ...)

Nomad roots 52 min. Long Neck tribe(Thailand)
The Kayan are a group of the Karenni people, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Burma.
In the 1990s, due to conflict with the military regime, many Kayan tribes people fled into neighbouring Thailand. They came as refugees, but the Thay Goverment offered them to live separatly from the refugee camp, paying the women for wearing their traditional rings.
There, they live with an uncertain legal status in the border area, in villages set up to display them to tourists who are willing to pay to admire their particular body modification, which consists of coiling lengths of brass around the necks of the women. In the end becoming a
human zoo. They aplied to the refugee resettlement programs, and they were accepted in host countries, but the Thay authorities didn´t let them go, nor allow them to work, cultivate, have telephones or any modern things. They are the most important turist attraction and economic income in the north of Thailand, so they are forced to carry each day an imprisonned identity and do nothing but let themselves be photographed. Sarah came when she was 7 years old, she is the daughter of the chief of the village. Sarah directed this film, in colaboration with her father and
the people involved, telling me what to film and organizing the events that she wanted to film. Surprisingly, they wanted to film traditional Dance, music and people from the refugee camp and the kayan village working together in a field, picking onions.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tribe
• kayan
• thailand
• burma
• myanmar
• documentary
• art
• trailer
• long
• neck
• film

[kyawkyaw1981]

Oww this like a human zoo.