Kahankar Ahankar. Story Maker : Story Taker

This film brings together a selection of the stories and paintings of the Indian Warlis, and some of the writings about "them"; "the other".

To the Warlis, a community of Adivasis (indigenous peoples) these stories represent their history, their world-view. All the outsiders, the Portuguese, the Marathas, the British, the native settlers... they all tried obliterating this history and wisdom. The work of the outsiders who wrote about the Warli represents this process of creating new mythologies. By bringing together these disparate discourses, this video aspires to critique these mythologies... To read between the lines, as the stories themselves do.

To the Warlis, a community of Adivasis (indigenous peoples) these stories represent their "history", their world-view. All the outsiders, the Portuguese, the Marathas, the British, the "native" settlers, they all tried obliterating this history and wisdom. The work of the outsiders who wrote about "the Warli" represents this process of creating new mythologies. By bringing together these disparate discourses, this film aspires to critique these mythologies. To read between the lines, as the stories themselves do.