Synopsis for the Film
Film: Jala Tarangani
Country: India
Director: Conceived & Produced by the Students & Teachers of Christel House India
Duration: 12 min
Category: Waterscapes
“… trains coming, children when school’s out, hungry cows… rollercoaster, ice melting, tap dancers, beatboxers… fog horns, a busy restaurant kitchen, newsrooms in old movies, elephants stampeding… owls, mockingbirds, doves. The world’s making music all the time”
- Tom Waits
Wave splash, rain pitter-patter, puddle plop, wind whoosh, stream pop, river silences- the music of the natural world. Mellifluous calms, operatic storms and the rainy day blues- the omnipresent yet oft unnoticed music of the natural world where notes intersperse to form the melody of the earth. Weaving notes of instruments like the flute and the guitar with the sound of the water and the students of Christel House India learn to make music in this delightful film and in the process discover a reason to celebrate and care for water as a wondrous element of everyday magic and also a scarce natural resource of immense importance for the well-being of the planet.
More Details
The mission of Christel House is to help children around the world break the cycle of poverty and become self sufficient, contributing members of their societies. The school population currently numbers 826 children in Grades KG to I and will grow by 70 children every year until it reaches its maximum number of around 972 in the year 2012 in Grades KG to XII. All the children who come to Christel House are from slums, shelters and low-income neighborhoods. Christel House India largely caters to the slum population, which is migrant population, settled in the city for more than 5-10 years.
