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A Man Called Nomad
Alexander Norman Gabbay, Nepal/China/UK, documentary, 38 min., 2003
(Tibetan with subtitles)
 Choegatar, a 30-year-old nomad living in north eastern China, is caught between two shifting worlds: A China expanding to catch up to the global market, and the soil beneath his feet trod by his yak-herding ancestors. Both worlds are sites of change, one is bent on capitalizing its recent entry into the WTO and the other is awkwardly trying to find its footing in a landscape that has become tarred with multilane highways and factory production lines. For Choegatar, the anchors of his traditional culture and way of life are losing their moorings, but the essence remains afloat in his heart. An honest, intimate and unsentimental look at a culture in transition. – M.S.L
Alex Gabbay received has an MA in Direction and documentary production and is currently working on a PhD on Film at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He has directed a number of works on issues facing populations in the developing world for the BBC such as Staying Alive! A film on maternal mortality and its economic impact on developing countries and A Higher Seat of Learning about education for minority Bon community in Nepal.
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