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An ode to the river goddess Ganga is presented in the form of a visual poem in four episodes. As a result of a curse, legend has it, she must leave the earth in the mortal form of a woman/mother who has to kill her child at birth. Ganga elegantly depicts the water through eloquently moving hands, drops splash in a circle and form rings on the water's smooth surface. A woman appears with blue waves symbolically painted on her cheeks, she symbolises the river in a long slow gesture. The mother, the earth. The clay that forms and is molded into a round, hollow pot. Destruction strikes at once: feet stamp on the hard ground in a rhythmic cadence until the pot breaks at the climax. In a flash-back we see the woman once more drinking water from the pot, as in a cycle of giving and taking, a circle, rotating round the earth, at the service of mankind.
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Sonja van der Burg
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Camera: Achal Sharma, Saurabh Samir, Brijesh Oberoi,
Light: Sukumar, Ramakant,
Editing: Bhupinder,
Sound: Zakir,
Choreography: Maya Krishna Rao,
Executive producer: Maria Vedder,
Assistants: Gitika Droga, Saurabh Samir, Brijesh Oberoi,
Production: Video Art Workshop/Max Mueller Bhavan, Goethe Institut
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