My Mother's Village from sudu nona Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 56 min 77 sec
✓ Published: 22-Feb-2015

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In the late 1970s my anthropologist mother, Sharon Bell, lived for two years in Sri Lanka researching village life. Together with my cinematographer father, Geoff Burton, they made a series of films documenting this experience. Four women, a community of fishermen, and a dance instructor became their subjects and friends. In 'the village' my mother was affectionately known as sudu-nona (the white lady), and in response to her persistent curiosity, villagers would remark that she must have been b