Undala - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/undala.html

Undala was filmed in 1960 in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan in an early era of ethnographic filmmaking just before the emergence of the technology required for the field recording of synchronous sound. Dust hangs over the land, diffusing the light, muting shadow, and adding a patina of gold to each scene. As an intense and purely visual, observational experience it could be seen as a precursor to what is being referred to today as "Sensory Ethnography."

Related Film - Undala Conversations (http://youtu.be/_8_1N7n4HQY)
Ethnographer Thomas Rosin watches and discusses Undala with Allison Jablonko, 50 years after the original release.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• DER
• documentary
• film
• ethnography
• anthropology
• undala
• peter biella
• allison jablonko
• marek jablonko
• india
• Rajasthan
• Gangwa