Every Time You Tell a Story (52 min; 2015; HD; English & with subtitles)

Directed by Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

How do you tell a story whose words are a song, a stone, an image, a symbol? A story that is woven into a shawl, woven through time itself? Tsungkotepsu is a shawl worn by men of the Ao-Naga community of Nagaland. Traditionally it signified the achievements of warriors who had won enemy heads in war. Even though the headhunting days are long gone, the shawl is central to Ao-Naga imagination. The film offers an interpretation of history, a way of understanding the shifts that this shawl-making tradition has experienced