Manakamana

Resource Information

The work Manakamana represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Manakamana

Statement of responsibility

directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez ; produced by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

Title variation

Mana ka mana

Contributor

• Velez, Pacho
• Paravel, Véréna, 1971-
• Cinema Guild
• Harvard University, Sensory Ethnography Lab
• Spray, Stephanie A.
• Castaing-Taylor, Lucien

Film director

• Velez, Pacho
• Spray, Stephanie A.

Film distributor

• Cinema Guild

Film producer

• Paravel, Véréna, 1971-
• Castaing-Taylor, Lucien

Production company

• Harvard University, Sensory Ethnography Lab

Subject

• Heiliger Berg
• Hindu
• Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal | Manakāmanā
• Manakāmanā (Nepal) -- Religious life and customs
• Manakāmanā (Nepal) -- Social life and customs
• Nepal
• Nonfiction films
• Pilger
• Seilbahn
• Aerial tramways -- Nepal | Manakāmanā
• Documentary films
• Ethnographic films
• Ethnologischer Film
• Feature films

Genre

• Documentary films
• Nonfiction films
• Feature films
• Ethnographic films

Language

• nep
• eng
• nep
• nep

Summary

"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

Awards note

Official Selection, New York Film Festival ; Grand Jury Prize, Filmmakers of the Present, Locarno Film Festival ; Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival

Cataloging source

GZN

Characteristic

videorecording

Language note

In Nepali with English subtitles

LC call number

BL2034.3.M36

LC item number

M36 2014

Runtime

118

Technique

live action