02572cgm a2200409 4500 758857450 TxAuBib 20140815120000.0 140505s2013||||||||||||||||||||||v|nep|u 9780781514750 0781514754 881164000811 (OCoLC)879190709 GZN eng GZN EMU BTCTA TEF TxGR TxAuBib nep eng nep Manakamana [DVD] / directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez ; produced by Lucien Castaing-Taylor ; Véréna Paravel. Mana ka mana. New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 2013. 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. "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. 20140815. In Nepali with English subtitles. Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages Nepal Manakāmanā. Railroads, Elevated Nepal Manakāmanā. Manakāmanā (Nepal) Religious life and customs. Manakāmanā (Nepal) Social life and customs. Spray, Stephanie A. Velez, Pacho. Castaing-Taylor, Lucien. Paravel, Véréna, 1971- Cinema Guild. Sensory Ethnography Lab. RV8