Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 12 (Cows) Sent: March 28, 2007 10:56:49 PM Yesterday was a day like no other in India, a day full of surprises and mysteries that left me befuddled and perplexed. Yesterday, I was walking along the streets of Bangalore lost in thought, when I [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 13 (My life as a Vegetarian) Sent: April 2, 2007 12:02:36 AM I have been outed in Cyberspace for being a fraud and for not checking facts. For those of you who have read my blog about cow worship in India, I am told [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 14 (John’s Documentary) Today, I finally saw the documentary film John has been working on for the past year. The film entitled Hex; short for Historical Expedition is a hard film to escape without feeling bludgeoned. The film weighs in at two hours and [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 15 (Flower Children) In India, flowers are part of religious ceremonies, funerals and weddings; these elaborate floral arrangements resembling of millions and millions of cracked and chaffed tiny hands busily working. Jasmine, roses, and lotus: “When you smell these flowers, think of the kids.” [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 16 (Laundry Girls) There are days when I want to poke my eyes out and other days when I feel humbled by the humanity of these people. I am not sure who the villains are anymore. I have been following a couple of young [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 17 (Chima steels bike/Faisel hits the streets) Faisal, the troubled Muslim kid with two missing front teeth returned to the streets briefly and proceeded to get wasted on white out correction fluid. Mio arrives to school on her motorcycle and she is visibly shaken. [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog #18 (Choose Anthony) Day after day, I am learning that our photographic expedition is being delayed. The reasons for the repeated delays are vague and incoherant, but I am not terribly worried, since the delay will help me choose my main characters for the [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 19 (Visiting Anthony’s house) Mio suggests that I should arrive at Anthony’s home with a young Indian translator who understands the local dialect. I chose Suriya, an eighteen- year old university student, who is a recent graduate from Born Free. He is studying economics, [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 20 (Time and Space (our road trip begins)) Sent: April 8, 2007 9:44:59 AM In leaving Bangalore, southern India’s big red apple, I am excited to leave behind my persistent, throbbing, cluster headache. In one of my past blog entries, I mentioned I would be getting into a [...]
Bang Bang Galore! A Filmmaker’s BLOGELLA Written by Steve Rosenberg Blog 21 (Tamil Power) Sent: April 10, 2007 10:36:27 AM I am sitting on the roof of the Born Free Express and I feel exhuberant. The jolting van swerves to avoid tree branches and power lines do not bother me because I feel terrific. For [...]
