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Title:

There is something in the air [videorecording] / Public Service Broadcasting Trust in partnership with Doordarshan Prasar Bharati Corporation presents ; producer, Rajiv Mehrotra ; a film by Iram Ghufran ; research, script, and direction, Iram Ghufran.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Public Service Broadcasting Trust ;

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

1 videodisc (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Muslim saints--India.
Sufism--India.
Jinn--India.
Mysticism--Islam.
Muslim women.
Jinn.
Muslim saints.
Muslim women.
Mysticism--Islam.
Sufism.
India.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

Ghufran, Iram, film editer. screenwriter, film editer.
Mehrotra, Rajiv, 1953- editing. editing.
Open Frame (11th : 2011 : New Delhi, India)
Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India), distributor. distributor.
Doordarshan (Television station : New Delhi, India)
Prasar Bharti Corporation (India)

Notes:

Presented as part of Public Service Broadcasting Trust's eleventh annual "The Open Frame" film festival held September 9-7, 2011. Film festival screening India International Centre, New Delhi 2011 September 12. For non-commercial private viewing only.

Summary:

"This documentary 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. The shrine becomes a space of expressions of longing and transgression."--Container.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)820029051

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)