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Dear Sis: Hair Cuts Season of the Boys Beijing Cotton-Fluffer Jiang Hu: Life on the Road Living Elsewhere Old Men I Am 17 Years Old in 1997 Magcojaodkal 98 Notes Before the Revolution An Autumn Fable For Maya How Do I Survive, My Friend! I Sing the Body Electric Kumar Talkies A Season Outside Jakarta Stock Shots: No. 7 Kamas Dolls Silk Tehran, the 25th Hour Trap After School Bicycles Annyong-Kimchi The New God Princess Plum P-udding The Children of North Korea Escaped to China Talbuk Sonyeondul Chungguk e Kada Making Sundried Red Peppers Gochoo Maligi The Three-Legged Crow Empty House Bin Chip Jaiyk Child of Mermaid Between Us Two... Beirut The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore Tension Title Deed from Moses Made In the Philippines ... To Fukuoka with Love Return to the Tribes Boys for Beauty Funny Competition Between Labor and Management: You Have Me in You I Love (080) The Red Leaf Legend Swimming on the Highway Two Guys Go Hunting Exotic 101 thirdworld The Hearts That Can't See the Sun Between Two Banks		I Sing the Body Electric INDIA / 1997 / No dialogue / Color / Video / 6 min Director, Script, Photography, Editing: Shalinee Ghosh Sound: Akhil Succena, Suresh SharmaﾊMusic: Sandeep Pillai Production Company, Source: National Institute of Design Paldi Ahmedabad 380 007 Gujarat INDIA Phone: 91-79-663-9692 / Fax: 91-79-660-5242 E-mail: nid@vsnl.com Shalinee Ghosh Graduated from the Indian National Institute of Design in 1998. She specialized in Film and Video Communication. As a student trainee under Mike Pandey she worked on Remains of the Ridge. It was televised nationally on World Environment Day '96. Made in the West, a student project of hers, dealt with recycling and dumping of plastic waste. Her diploma film Imperative and the Challenge documents water harvesting methods in the remote tribal areas of India's Drylands. She also freelances as a still photographer and writes in national dailies and journals abroad with her own illustrations. A striking short video by a young film student transforms a grimy ironworks factory into a magic wonderworld. Director's Statement I Sing the Body Electric tries to capture the light, music and magic of a factory manufacturing construction rods. Dawn to dusk men risk their lives handling red hot ingots that turn in seconds into glowing serpentine waves. Searching for assembly line shots for another film I stumbled upon this factory. The pulsating life hidden within the moribund exteriors was a revelation. Seemingly lifeless ingots that came to life and ruled. Activities of the men - their courage, skill and concentration. Counter parted with the hectic activity, the calm alertness of squirrels, and the yogic postures of frogs. Man, machine, decay, teeming nature, residing in harmony. I had difficulties, being the first woman on those premises. Several weeks went by before I was accepted. Every moment I was warned that lethal accidents were a breath away. I had to shoot with a camera that had to be switched off every two minutes because of the heat. Most of the sound had to be recreated in the studio because there was no sound equipment. 　 beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee