In Islamic culture, Amanat means ‘trustworthy’ or ‘safekeeping’. When someone gives something to someone else for safekeeping and returns the item back, they show that they are amanat-dhar or trustworthy by returning the object undamaged.
This short video is an interview with an autorickshaw driver from the North West Frontier Province working in the Southern Pakistani port-city of Karachi. In this video, the driver accounts the return of a cell-phone left in the back of his rickshaw, and his adherance to and understanding of amanat.
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This film screens as part of this screening:
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- STEM Cell 2010 / Reeling Dance On Screen
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1: Variations on the Home Movie
- Reeling: MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck) (2010)
- Reeling: Sex, Death & Arabesque
- Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry (2008)
- Artist's Talk with Daniel Barrow @ The ARTery
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 2: Landscapes
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 3: The Medium of Media
- Reeling: Blush - A film by Ultima Vez (2004)
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory
- Reeling: Gravity of Desire
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 5: Phenomenology & Perception
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