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Hippie Masala
Directed
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Ulrich Grossenbacher & Damaris Luthi
Switzerland / 2006 / 93
minutes
In German, Hindi and English
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Screening
Times and Venues:
Upstate Films II
10/12/2007, 4:45PM |
$8 |
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Tinker Street Cinema
10/13/2007, 4:00PM |
$8 |
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"Hippie Masala" translates as "Forever in India," a choice made by some of the millions of Flower Children who flocked to India in the 1960s and 70s. Indian peasants assumed that a severe drought in the West was the reason for their migration. India's holy men saw it, more accurately, as a search for spirituality. And those who stayed on shared a profound need for personal freedom, as well as a love of drugs and/or spirituality. Cesare, an Italian expatriate, emaciated and hunched over, sacrifices -personal identity in order to immerse himself in yoga. Robert from Holland, a gifted painter, lives with a wife and young children. Meera, a recluse, seeks enlightenment on her own. Hanspeter, a Swiss, reveals a dark side as he farms and builds an elaborate home. And Erica and Gillian, South African sisters, seek the world's party spots. A fascinating chronicle, beautifully shot and meticulously crafted. (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) |
Ulrich Grossenbacher, born in 1958 in Langenthal, attended Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel in 1975, and worked until 1994 as an artist and restorer. From 1995 to 1996 Grossenbacher studied film history and documentary film at Kunstgewerbeschule in Bern, and since 1996 has been a freelance cameraman, camera assistant and independent
filmmaker.
Damaris Luthi was born in 1959 in Brienz, has a PhD in Ethnology, with a specialization in Southern Asia and Visual Anthropology.
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Robert from Holland. Hanspeter from Switzerland, Meera from Belgium, Cesare from Italy, Erica and Gillian from South Africa |
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Fair & Ugly |
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Ulrich Grossenbacher & Damaris Luthi |
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Damaris Luthi |
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Ulrich Grossenbacher |
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Maya Schmid |
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Disu GmŸnder |
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Serge Avesh Valantin, Balthasar Jucker |
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