Manakamana

Locations
Call Number: DVD FLC-NEP Manakamana
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-NEP Manakamana	1-week checkout	On Shelf

"Produced at the Sensory Ethnography Lab."
Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
"Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, [Manakamana] is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity ... For centuries, devoted pilgrims hoping to reach the fabled temple needed to undertake an arduous multi-day journey. Today, because of a new cable car system, the entire trip takes just under 10 minutes ... [The film] opens a rich and vibrant window onto this world over the course of eleven such rides. Each is composed of a fixed shot, lasting between 9 and 10 minutes ... With every sequence, we are introduced to new passengers: an elderly man and his grandson, a trio of teenage rockers, a married couple, a mother and daughter, three wives. Through their shared conversations, anecdotes, observations about the surrounding landscape, and even their silence, a detailed picture of their lives emerges; a story about history, tradition, and change"--Container.
DVD; NTSC; widescreen (aspect ratio of 1.85:1); stereo.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Beautiful submitted by jibkidder on July 28, 2022, 8:15am This film is more or less just a camera sitting on a cable car. Given that fact, you wouldn't expect it to be compelling in the least. Nevertheless, I had 10 friends over and no one's attention drifted for a minute. A real triumph of slow, hands off cinema.