Born at Home
Born at Home observes indigenous birth practices in different parts of India. The film, poised between social reality and the eternal mistery of childbearing, negociates ethnography and medical anthropology. The dai, the midwife, is almost always a low-caste, poor woman. Her methods are holistic, conceiving of childbirth not as pathology but continuation of organic life. Dais handle about 50% of the birth in India. Yet the dai is at the lowest rung of the hierarchies of caste, class, and gender. Her inherited skills, though accessible and low cost are continually devalued by the mainstream. The film poses a critical question - why does the state not recognise the almost one million traditional practitioners in the country?
India - 2000 - 1 h - Betacam SP - Colour
Réalisation
Sameera Jain
Scénario
Sameera Jain
Image
Rita Banerji
Son
Sameera Jain, Rita Banerji
Montage
Monica Bhasin
Musique
Susmit Sen
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Production
Sublunar Films
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Co-Production
Matrika
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Ventes
Sublunar Films
Tél : +91 11 6972055
Fax : +91 11 699 5900 |
