In the forest hangs a bridge / directed by Sanjay Kak.

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TextPublication details: New Delhi : Magic Lantern Foundation ; Under Constructions, 1999.Description: 1 DVD (39 min) ; sd., col. : 4 3/4 inGenre/Form:

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A00179

Summary: A film about the building of a suspension bridge by the people of an Adi village in the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh, in northeastern India. These bridges, elegant structures of cane and bamboo, are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe. Everyone in the village is a builder and in less than three days, a bridge more than a thousand feet long is built.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	A00179 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	I8	Available		A00179

"English (subtitled), 39 min, 1999, India"--Container.

"Located deep in the forested hills of the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh, at the north-eastern extremity of India, Damro village gathers to build a 1000 foot long suspension bridge, the elegant structures of cane and bamboo, that are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe. Their only tool is the dao, a blade length of tempered steel, the size of a machete"--Cover

A film about the building of a suspension bridge by the people of an Adi village in the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh, in northeastern India. These bridges, elegant structures of cane and bamboo, are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe. Everyone in the village is a builder and in less than three days, a bridge more than a thousand feet long is built.

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