Midnight Tails will take you on a journey through the jungles - both concrete and biotic! Find joy watching baboons splay themselves across the roots of ancient trees; learn what light pollution and thinning ice can do to ecosystems that thrive in Arctic darkness; explore rapid urbanisation and the lives it alters; meet one man saving the lives of not only the Pangolins in Uganda, but also the people who hunt them; and teleport to France - behind the cliff of Etretat, where in an almost lunar space, a blind man with seasoned hands hunts crabs and lobsters. Whether you are wild or domesticated, this strand is for you.
The oldest inhabitants of Mumbai - the Koli fisherfolk from the village of Trombay Koliwada, are gradually moving away from the livelihood of fishing.
Why is this happening?
The toxic, plastic-filled seawater, and being locked in by the government's infrastructure projects on all sides, leaves the Kolis with no choice but to look for alternate sources of income.
Based on research conducted by Lalitha Kamath and Gopal Dubey from the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (made as a part of the Inhabited Sea Project initiated by the University of Pennsylvania), Sagarputra looks at the struggles and modes of resistance of the Koli community to claim their space, livelihood, and identity under unprecedented environmental and social circumstances.
- Year2021
- Runtime21 minutes
- LanguageMarathi, Hindi
- CountryIndia
- PremiereYes
- DirectorPooja Das Sarkar
- ScreenwriterLalitha Kamath, Gopal Dubey & Pooja Das Sarkar
- ProducerUniversity of Pennsylvania
- FilmmakerPooja Das Sarkar
- CinematographerVimal Mylon
- EditorPooja Das Sarkar
- AnimatorNisha Mathrani
- Sound DesignVimal Mylon
Midnight Tails will take you on a journey through the jungles - both concrete and biotic! Find joy watching baboons splay themselves across the roots of ancient trees; learn what light pollution and thinning ice can do to ecosystems that thrive in Arctic darkness; explore rapid urbanisation and the lives it alters; meet one man saving the lives of not only the Pangolins in Uganda, but also the people who hunt them; and teleport to France - behind the cliff of Etretat, where in an almost lunar space, a blind man with seasoned hands hunts crabs and lobsters. Whether you are wild or domesticated, this strand is for you.
The oldest inhabitants of Mumbai - the Koli fisherfolk from the village of Trombay Koliwada, are gradually moving away from the livelihood of fishing.
Why is this happening?
The toxic, plastic-filled seawater, and being locked in by the government's infrastructure projects on all sides, leaves the Kolis with no choice but to look for alternate sources of income.
Based on research conducted by Lalitha Kamath and Gopal Dubey from the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (made as a part of the Inhabited Sea Project initiated by the University of Pennsylvania), Sagarputra looks at the struggles and modes of resistance of the Koli community to claim their space, livelihood, and identity under unprecedented environmental and social circumstances.
- Year2021
- Runtime21 minutes
- LanguageMarathi, Hindi
- CountryIndia
- PremiereYes
- DirectorPooja Das Sarkar
- ScreenwriterLalitha Kamath, Gopal Dubey & Pooja Das Sarkar
- ProducerUniversity of Pennsylvania
- FilmmakerPooja Das Sarkar
- CinematographerVimal Mylon
- EditorPooja Das Sarkar
- AnimatorNisha Mathrani
- Sound DesignVimal Mylon
