Doris and Francis
Francis and Doris are the Auroville Video Productions team
which, for the past ten years, has been documenting the history and unfolding
of Auroville. What is their motivation? What are the challenges? And what have
they learned about Auroville and themselves in the process?
Give us a brief
history of the Auroville video experiments.
Francis. The
first video that presented Auroville to the world was made by Michael
Klostermann in the early 1970s. In the early 1980s, Alain and Patricia started
a video unit. I got involved with them in the middle 1980s. For a while, Yanne
and I had a great time making weekly ‘Newsreals’ with them. These were
light-hearted takes on what was happening in the community, primarily for
internal consumption. However, at a certain point Alain and Patricia were
disturbed by what we were doing that they didn’t want to be part of it any
more. Suddenly Yanne and I found ourselves doing everything: writing the
scripts, sho...
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