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Cut From Different Cloth: Burqas & Beliefs
- Item Number
- 244
- Estimated Value
- 20 USD
- Sold
- 25 USD to gottbergmn
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
In 2005 documentary filmmakers Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin returned to Afghanistan's norther city of Mazar-i-Sharif for the third time since the fall of the Taliban in 2002.
Despite a growing network of Afghan friends and colleagues from their two prior visits, they had been restricted in their ability to meet freely with Afghan women.
The all-covering burqa, the high-walled living compounds and cultural restrictions on women limited their access. Olga, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, was puzzled why virtually all the Afghan women she saw still wore the burqa...even though a new constitution was adapted that granted women equal rights with men.
This time Olga brought Serena, her 27 year-old stepdaughter. Serena lived for a month as an Afghan with Hasina, a 27 year-old Afghan woman and her family. Serena became the eyes and ears of the filmmakers.
Together, Serena, Hasina and Olga set out on a journey to learn what it means to be a woman in today's Afghanistan. In the process they confront their own conflicts with the culture and traditions.
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