small-scale societies - Vipin Vijay

#Documentary #Archaeologicalimagination #Nationalfilmawards2019 #VipinVijay #Nonfeaturefilm #Specialjuryaward #Audiovisualassemblage#Archaeology #Archaeologicalartifacts #Museumspace #sacrificeandresurrection Two living bodies have been installed and improvised within a museum space, scattered with archaeological artifacts, terracotta pots and shreds, where acts of sacrifice and resurrection are being performed like a re-enactment of a lost and forgotten ritual. The idea of archaeological imagination has been extended from the organized and tagged space of museum with the sense of linear historical time, to various evocative, yet less visited prehistoric sites in India – from the site of survival of human ancestors confronting the catastrophe of Toba volcanic ash, deep down in the Paleolithic past in Andhra Pradesh, caves, in painted rock shelters and megalithic sites of Chhattisgarh since Mesolithic times, to excavation sites and Neolithic burial grounds in Kerala in Neolithic and post-Neolithic pe