Himachal Pradesh, May 20 Dhangkar: Cattle migration (Sony)
Director: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar; Cinematographer: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar
Duration: 00:25:24; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 2.217; Saturation: 0.036; Lightness: 0.503; Volume: 0.056; Cuts per Minute: 3.385
Summary: Dhangkar
is like a fortress city protected by forbidding spiky cliffs from above and a
steep climb below. It was, at one time, the capital of the Spiti valley. There
are barely 50-100 houses perched high up on a bare and dry mountain. Each
family has a few dozen goats , donkeys, yaks, cows, a mix breed between yak and
cow, and horses. Everyday two people from the village take all the goats from
every single house far out into the mountains for grazing. Two other people
take all the other animals out in a different direction. At around six in the
evening you can hear a faint sound, almost like an echo, which grows louder and
louder. Small black and white specks and spots grow bigger and bigger against a
sepia landscape. Within minutes the valley is surrounded by loud braying,
bleating, oohing aahing heehawing and every other imaginable sound. Its
Himalayan peak hour traffic. In this wonderfully extempore dance there are no
humans about. All the animals return to their respective houses. Within half an
hour the sun has set and only the breeze makes a sound to the faint smell of
dung.
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Dhankhar
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Single goat
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Woman bringing animals home
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Single goat
Cherring with baby, watching his cattle returning home
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Cherring puts all baby cattle inside the house
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Cattle at home
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Cattle at home
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Cherring cuts sheep’s tail hair
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donkeys return home
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single goat staring
girls walk by family of goats
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girls bring family of goats home
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single goat walks downhill
Cherring tending to goats
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Cattle returning to Chaerring’s house with BG of hillside covered with cattle returning home
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LS sheep and goat returning home
Cherring trimming hair
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Timelapse of cattle spreading out through the network of paths across the hillside
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Timelapse of cattle spreading out through the network of paths across the hillside
Goat returns home
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Timelapse of cattle walking in straight line
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Timelapse of cattle walking in straight line
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Timelapse of cattle walking in straight line
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Timelapse of cattle walking in straight line
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Timelapse of cattle walking downhill
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Timelapse of cattle walking in straight line
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Timelapse of cattle walking in straight line
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