Let Me Capture Your World: Ladakh | Nicolas Henry

France
2017
en
[cc]
52'

Direction: Sybille d’Orgeval

Visual artist Nicolas Henry focuses here on three projects reconciling ancestral culture and the rapid development of the Ladakh region in India. Joined on their adventure by a fashion designer and fair trade fan, the team meets the weaver-breeders from the high plateau; students who have built their school by mixing traditional construction techniques and innovative technologies; and sacred art restorers: a project that mobilizes an entire village around its monastery. An energizing journey on the path to an enlightened modernity.

Let Me Capture Your World: Ladakh | Nicolas Henry

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Synopsis

Visual artist Nicolas Henry focuses here on three projects reconciling ancestral culture and the rapid development of the Ladakh region in India. Joined on their adventure by a fashion designer and fair trade fan, the team meets the weaver-breeders from the high plateau; students who have built their school by mixing traditional construction techniques and innovative technologies; and sacred art restorers: a project that mobilizes an entire village around its monastery. An energizing journey on the path to an enlightened modernity.

What you will find in this film

An ancestral culture • The shadow of China • The influence of Tibetan Buddhism • Intercultural exchanges • The nomads' difficulties • Life on the high plateau • Weavers in the open air • Village women who have become restaurant owners • A travelling studio • The art of salvage • A Ladakhi designer • Sacred art restorers • An alternative school • Ambitious installations • Good use of battery-powered flash • Shots in stages • The constraints of working in situ • A giant patchwork • Preparatory sketches • A photographic journey • A dreamlike world • Baroque staging • A collaborative practice

Keywords

Portrait Colour The artist inspiration Photomontage Photographic retouching Digital photography

When the herd of yaks arrives, we will be in the shadows. So we'll have to be mobile with the flashes. There'll be three battery-powered flashes to flash the yaks.

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Film chapters

summary 02:00 Village of Alchi

summary 03:20 Leh

summary 08:20 Kharnak, village of semi-nomads, 4500m altitude

summary 21:20 Secmol alternative school, Leh

summary 36:00 Matho Monastery

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The authors/artists

Sybille d’Orgeval

Further exploration

• WORLDS IN THE MAKING – CABANES IMAGINAIRES AUTOUR DU MONDE - Author : Nicolas Henry ; Albin Michel editions ; 2016

• LES CABANES DE NOS GRANDS-PARENTS – Author : Nicolas Henry ; Actes Sud editions ; 2011

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CNN Ones to watch “Lights, camera, action: a new vision of photography”, 2015

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