Director David MacDougall
Country/Production Australia
Release 2007
Length 77 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location India / Asia
Ethnic Group Indian
Language English
Collection MacDougall
University Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
Prizes/Commendations Basil Wright Film Prize 2007
Order No RAI-209.2007.41
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Inspired by the cinema of Lumière and the ideas of the 20th century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, David MacDougall follows up the Doon School Quintet, his series of films about a traditional school in North India, with this film made at the Rishi Valley School, a famous progressive co-educational school in Andhra Pradesh, South India.
Throughout his life, Krishnamurti taught that one should strive to observe the things around one more calmly and clearly. This was also how cinema began, and what excited its first audiences. SchoolScapes attempts to recapture that freshness of observing the world. It is dedicated to the simple act of looking, in which each scene is a single shot. (Winner Basil Wright Film Prize 2007)
