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Plot: A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
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	6.5/10 Votes: 742
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	86/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 23 Popularity: 1.401 | TMDB

Reviews:

Wonderfully calming
It starts slow, really painfully slow. No dialogue until 25 minutes, when a couple get in and mention they’re going to worship at the temple and what fun it’ll be. They have a chicken with them. We see the couple again at the end, the only people to appear twice. They still have the chicken, but it’s feet are sticking out of a carrier bag. It’s an odd documentary, like zen people watching. The idea being you’re in the cable car with them, climbing up and down the Nepalese hillsides. It’s made to look like one continuous shot, but isn’t, although there’s still a real honesty and clarity about it. Each time the car reaches a station, it plunges into darkness at the turnaround, there’s a wait to see who’s next as figures slowly reveal themselves in the shadows. Then with a sudden rush of sunlight as the car emerges, we’re greeted with goats! Fantastic!! The goats watch as the hill side passes. What do they make of it is anyone’s guess, but a few euphoric sounding bleats suggest they’re having fun. At least until they get to the temple that is. The three metalheads taking photos are very funny and the two old ladies struggling with fast melting ice-cream are hilarious!! There’s a weird intermission of darkness at the half way mark, with a few minutes of just sound. It’s eerie, but fits well. As unusually entertaining as all this is, it’s the two guys that get in with their instruments (Sarangi… I googled it) that steal the show. They muse on how things have changed in the world, tune up said instruments and proceed to bang out a song. It could be that much of the silence in the film heightens this musical interlude, but it’s still pretty cool. Which is a good summary of the film, it’s pretty cool.

Manakamana
Manakamana is a spiritual experience.

True, it is filmed inside a cable car that is transporting its passengers to a temple in the foothills of the Nepalese Himalayas dedicated to Manakamana, the Hindu goddess of good fortune. However, the ethereal experience of the film does not only belong to the passengers but also to us, the audience, the voyeurs.

The work is filmed in 16mm and records 11 trips. This gives the audience the depth of time to watch, listen, observe and internalize these pilgrims. In this hypnotizing act of looking, we become pilgrims ourselves, enthralled in a simultaneous internal and external exploration of landscapes.

Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez are the filmmakers behind this work. Stephanie Spray is a filmmaker, phonographer and anthropologist who has been working at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University since 2006. Her work exploits different media to explore the confluence of social aesthetics and art in everyday life. Since 1999 she has spent much of her time in Nepal, roaming its mountains; studying its music, religion and language; and making films. Pacho Velez’s work sits at the intersection of ethnography, structuralism and political documentary. Though shot in different countries, using distinct formal strategies, his films share a preoccupation with local responses to broad changes wrought by globalisation. He teaches at Bard College.

These two influences are reflected in the situation of the work geographically, both on a temporal and otherworldly level. The nuances of culture, gender, nationality, age, and marital status are all revealed to us on this journey.

As a trio of elderly women, a pair of young American tourists, a husband and wife, three young men, two musicians and a small herd of goats each take their trip above the rich and verdant landscape, a character study ensues. Each entity is occupying space that someone else previously did. However, even though they may be travelling along the same route and may have the same destination, they are all worlds apart.

One of the things that I will carry forever with me of this film, is the feeling that not only was I watching these people but they were watching me too. The camera lens felt like a two way portal. That feeling of being connected to another time, space and entity engendered feeling of meditative peace and tranquility. It sparked a complex internal dialogue that could not be translated with words.

This film is probably the furthest thing away from Hollywood that I have seen, at least in a long time. It is breathtaking in the boundaries that it challenges and transcendental in its quiet ambition.

Other Information:

Original Language ne
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary
Director Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez
Writer N/A
Actors Chabbi Lal Gandharba, Anish Gandharba, Bindu Gayek
Country Nepal, United States
Awards 6 wins & 13 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1 (theatrical ratio)
Camera Aaton LTR 7
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 16 (source format)
Printed Film Format DCP