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There Is Something in the Air

Iram GHUFRAN

  • India
  • 2011
  • 29min
  • DV
  • color/black and white
  • Documentary

SYNOPSIS

This documentary is a call from the periphery of sanity. It depicts is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in north India. Drama unfolds via dreams, and appearances of djinns and disappearances of women.


 

 

There Is Something in the Air is a short documentary that shows the spiritual experiences and the dreams of female followers at a Sufi (one group among Muslims) shrine through a poetic and dreamlike method. With the appropriate use of text, sound, photograph, and inserts of scenery surrounding the shrine, the film enchantingly presents the intensity of their suffering, illusion and emotions. It received the Best Short Documentary Award at the 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in 2011. (HWANG Miyojo)

PROGRAM NOTE


 Synopsis
 This documentary is a call from the periphery of sanity. It depicts is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in north India. Drama unfolds via dreams, and appearances of djinns and disappearances of women.


 


 Program Note
 There Is Something in the Air is a short documentary that shows the spiritual experiences and the dreams of female followers at a Sufi (one group among Muslims) shrine through a poetic and dreamlike method. With the appropriate use of text, sound, photograph, and inserts of scenery surrounding the shrine, the film enchantingly presents the intensity of their suffering, illusion and emotions. It received the Best Short Documentary Award at the 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in 2011. (HWANG Miyojo)

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Director

  • Iram GHUFRANIram GHUFRAN

    She is a filmmaker based in New Delhi. Her work largely emerges from various interdisciplinary practices – from filmmaking, photography, research, and writing. She teaches photography to graduate students at the Convergent Journalism programme, AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia. There Is Something in The Air is her first documentary.

Credit

  • ProducerRajeev MEHROTRA
  • Cinematography Kashif SIDDIQUI
  • Editor Iram GHUFRAN
  • Music Da SAZ
  • Sound Pratik BISWAS, ASHEESH PANDYA