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Issue No: 311-312, June-July 2015

"We Are Trying to Capture a Vibration"

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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Issue No. 311-312, June-July 2015

  • The Water Challenge
  • The Water Challenge: Auroville and the Bioregion
  • Battling the Water Crisis
  • The Auroville Desalination Plant Project
  • Towards an Integrated Water Management Strategy for the Bioregion
  • Tamil Farmers and the Water Issue
  • The Water Trouble of Annai Nagar
  • From Pond to Borewell
  • Taps are Forbidden in Sadhana Forest
  • The Artistry of Auroville Papers
  • "We Are Trying to Capture a Vibration"

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