Scene from the film Kale and Kale

Kale and Kale

Direction
Year 
2007
Country
  • United States
  • Nepal
Duration
50min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

In exploring the lives of two wandering Nepali musicians, an uncle and nephew who share the same name and are featured in filmmaker Stephanie Spray's and Pacho Velez's acclaimed documentary Manakamana, Kāle and Kāle (pronounced kah-lay) exposes the rootless occupation of the Gaine caste and communicates both its joys and pitfalls - domestic, economic and spiritual - in their daily lives.

Rejecting didacticism as a means of ethnographical observation, the film consists of distinct episodes that value the quality of the genuine moment. Spray couples both meaningful and disconcerting human interactions with the sights and sounds of natural familiarities such as grass, smoke, insects, animals, and traditional Nepalese folk music, opening up an evocative new world that the viewer is invited to slowly and deliberately experience.

Kāle and Kāle is one of several slice-of-life films Spray has made about rural Nepali culture; this film grants us access to her extraordinary perception not only of the relationship between the two men, but also of the intricate beauty of the geographic landscape and the social, moral, and religious implications of the communities that inhabit them.

Details

  • Original title
    Kāle and Kāle
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Stephanie Spray
  • DOP
    Stephanie Spray
  • Editing
    Stephanie Spray
  • Duration
    50 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2007
  • Country
    • United States
    • Nepal
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Production
  • Distribution
  • Festivals
    • The Whitney Biennial 2014
    • Visual Anthropology Film Festival during AAA Conference 2010 (New Orleans)
    • Himalayan Film Festival 2008 (Amsterdam)
    • The International Ethnographic Film Festival of Q 2008
    • Ethnographic Film Festival Eyes and Lenses V 2008 (Warsaw)
    • NAFA film festival 2007 (Trondheim)

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