House of Earth by Priya Sen

2015 | Documentary | English | 27 mins

“My philosophy basically is an attempt to see, as an experiment, how far you can carry the impracticality of a philosophical stance, into the practicalities of an activity like building. And to try to keep as many things in flux as possible, and to keep things from dying.” – Didi Contractor, Sidhbari 2013

This film is about the making of one of Didi Contractor’s buildings, Monisha Mukundan’s mud house, the Naya Mitti Ghar, in Bir, in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra Valley.