This World Is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope

This World Is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 6, 2010

Runtime

0h 50m

Genres

Documentary, Music

User Score

80%

Original Title

This World Is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope

Production Companies

Sublime Frequencies

Director

Robert Millis

Description

Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India's complex and mesmerizing sounds.