Blood Earth (2013)

Kucheipadar, a Khonda tribal village in Odisha, India, is a bauxite-rich block that since India's economic liberalization has been the subject of violent conflict between the indigenous Adivasi inhabitants and a mining venture. The singing and writing of songs articulate creative forms and political structures that steer a resistance movement from subalternity, through solidarity, into dissolution. Blood Earth interweaves the efforts to record song, farming, village life, and a political meeting to improvise a junction between voice, music, silence, sound, and noise.