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Doc.Splash

organised by Documentary Circle of Hyderabad in association with PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TRUST (Delhi) and FILMS DIVISION (Mumbai) present a 3 day film fest from Tue-Fri 17,18,19 Feb.

Day III : Thursday, 19.02.2015, 6.30 pm

CHITRAKATHI

Director : MANI KAUL

19min .1978 . Konkan, English & Marathi with sub-titles.

Pinguli is an old village on the Konkan coast, about 32 km north of Goa. Here, a unique Thakur community of sixty families haspreserved or hundreds o years three dierent folk forms: Chitrakathi, marionettes and leather puppets. Chitrakathi arose in temples, from the Paithan paintings of mythological iguresand the desankritised epics in vibrant Marathi, following SantDyaneshwar and the non-Brahmin saints of the Bhakti movement. Thisilm traces the evolution of Chitrakathi, a folk form available in the Konkan area of Maharashtra, while revealing the transormation being brought about by modern life.

Arguably the most avant-garde of Indian filmmakers, Mani Kaul has done, perhaps more than anyone else, to open up the cinematic form and to explore the deep ties that cinema has with other classical arts. His cinema is wholly different from the social filmmaking of Parallel cinema, which sometimes sacrifices cinematic examination for partisan politics. Kaul is also one of the few filmmakers from the country who has backed his filmography with a published theoretical framework.

A GROUP PORTRAIT

Director : REENA MOHAN 30 min . 2001 . Hindi with sub-titles

The film traces the efforts of rural women in North Bihar for reviving the Sujni Kantha tradition of embroidered quilts aided by the Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti (MVSS).

SO HEDDAN SO HODDAN . Director : ANJALI MONTEIRO & K. P. JAYASANKAR . 52 min . 2011 English, Kutchchi, Hindustani with sub-titles -- Folk narrative art of Rann of Kutch

Entry - Free.