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Bombay Film Culture and Shumona Goel’s Atreyee by Devdutt Trivedi
Shumona showed Nikhil Arolkar and me her minute film Atreyee in I just viewed it now at the end of , a lot has happenedI will be brief.
The entire articulated and violent disagreement within cinematographic practitioners in Bombay is with the relationship between space and time. Mani Kaul and his pupils use Henri Bergson’s durée to an extreme that culminates in the 10 minute opening shot of Amitabh Chakraborty’s Kaal Abhirati. Two comments in this regard: on three consecutive days I saw a copy of Leonard Lawler’s The Challenge of Bergsonism with Mani Kaul at office; and my Prof Nathanael’s (Nathalie Stephens) comment: “Davdit, if you use Bergson as the conceptual methodology in your next paper, I will have to fail you”
However, there is a school of film in Bombay closer to American avant-garde, where students from Bard and CalArts create an urban English-speaking aesthetic notably, with a jagged editing where the duration becomes an ephemerality keenly agreeing with Gaston Bachelard’s disagreements with Bergson, stated in the book by Bachelard: The Dialectic of Duration. Here Bachelard speaks of the momentary and ephemeral as being as affirmation of Chronos or passing time, as duration was for Aion, or Time as a static Whole. Experimental film makers use time in a jagged way so that the signification of space is repeated, as if it cancels signification, and belongs to a larger transformation spatial configuration, that aligns more with History and therefore socio-economic and political realities, rather than dialectics or metaphysics. This cinema does not ask the classic cinematographic question: What is reality?
With film artists such as Shumona, Ashim Ahluwalia, Kabir Mohanty, Ashish Avikunthak, Bernd Lutzler and cinematographers like Setu and especially (one of the great maestros of cinematography of our time, anywhere in the world) KU Mohanan, there was an Explorer By Pramod Pati India, , digital transfer, b&w, sound, An experimental short which daringly uses rapid cutting, dissonant noises, intercut negatives etc. to capture the tensions the urban youth of India experienced following the turmoil of the ’60s. This Bit of That India By S.N.S Sastry India, , digital transfer, b&w, sound, A layered reflection on youth culture, diversity, progress, education, technology and sexuality. The film juxtaposes documentary moments that celebrate individual freedom with a theatrical performance of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, as a metaphor for repression and conformity. FPS Festival Space and India By Vijay B Chandra India, digital transfer, color, sound, 21 minutes Space and India is both an informational documentary about the India space programme and astronomy and an authorial, visionary kaleidoscope of space scientists, the landscapes produced by cosmic science of architectural scale instruments and the societal imaginary of science. -Creative Encounters With Science and Technology Transcendence By nath India, , digital transfer, color, sound, A film on Auroville. Auroville is an international city on the outskirts of Pondicherry, evolving a new way of life transcending the past and the present in search of true answer to the inner questions of man.Experimentations This Bit of That India
Explorer
This Bit of That India
Space and India
Transcendence
Indian Short Film &#;An Old Dog&#;s Diary&#; Wins Award at London Film Fest
An Old Dog&#;s Diary, a film directed by Shai Heredia and Shumona Goel, has won the best short film award at the prestigious London Film Festival, It is a lyrical film portrait of artist Francis Newton Souza and his work.
Indian short film, An Old Dog’s Diary, has won the best short film award at the London Film Festival (LFF).
Directed by Shai Heredia and Shumona Goel, An Old Dog’s Diary is a lyrical film portrait of Francis Newton Souza, one of the prominent Indian artists of the 20th-century, and is inspired by his personal writings, letters, drawings and possessions.
The the 11 minute long film reveals the cultural conditions of Souza’s work and its institutionalisation.
The award was presented by Shezad Dawood and Daisy Jacobs and collected by Chantal and Dev Pinto of the Xandev Foundation, on behalf of directors Shai Heredia and Shumona Goel.
The film was earlier showcased in the Wavelengths category at Toronto International Film Festival.
Coincidently, Souza’s painting “Birth” was recently sold for over $4 million, creating a new record for the most expensive work ever sold at a South Asian art auction.
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