Mirrors of Malabar – A Screening of Four Short Films Filmvorführung
A screening of four short films, made for the exhibition ‘The Mirror: Our Reflected Image’, Museum Rietberg, 2019
Darpaṇam, 5.13 mins
Ali Bhūta: A Performative Possession Ritual, 5.10 mins
Pooram Kuli: Ritual Immersions of a Goddess, 5.02 mins
Kannātī Bimbam: The Making of a Sacred Mirror, 15.24 mins
The screening will be introduced by the director of the short films, Harsha Vinay, and will be followed by a Q&A. Harsha Vinay led fieldwork in northern Kerala and Tulunadu with colleagues and associates at temples dedicated to deities personified as mirrors. He documented remarkable rituals of consecration and possession that use mirrors as well as deities which were shown with the mirror as their attribute. Address Südasien-Institut, Gebäude 4130 Raum 010.01.05 Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Organizer Südasien-Institut Homepage Organizer http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de Contact URL https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/krs/ |