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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-Thu 17,18,19 Feb.
Day I : Tuesday, 17.02.2015, 6.30 pm
AMIR KHAN . Director : S.N.S. SASTRY . 19 min . 1970 . Hindi and Urdu with sub-titles -- Classical Hindustani vocalist
BANDISH . Director : KAMAL SWAROOP . 30 min . 2007 . English and Hindi with sub-titles --Determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music
BANDISH
Director : KAMAL SWAROOP 30 min . 2007 . English and Hindi with sub-titles
The film explores the idea of determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music.
Kamal Swaroop is a dual National Award and Filmfare Award winning film, television and radio director and screenwriter. In 1974 he graduated from the Film and Television Institute and even his student works met with unusual international acclaim. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute. He assisted the director Richard Attenborough in the filming of Gandhi (1982). He made documentary as well as feature. Famously banned, a formal experimenter, Om Dar-B-Dar (1988) is his master work. A PSBT production.
BAMBOO FLUTE . Director : KUMAR SHAHANI . 60 min . 2000 . English with sub-titles
Director : KUMAR SHAHANI 60 min . 2000 . English with sub-titles
'Bamboo Flute' is a musical journey into the history, myth and evocations of the melodic rhythms of the flute, an ancient musical instrument, having a history of more than 4000 years. It works through the creative mode of musical as well cinematographic elaboration suggested by the actual playing of the flute. Through parallel and other configurations, different melodic lines may position themselves in time and space to suggest that the creative act is also the comparison generated by the metaphysics of the flute. The form of the film evolves from the musicality and the specifics of its visual correspondence in architecture, dance, poetry and intersecting axes of color and narrative. A deeply meditative film, and one that challenged the established norm of documentaries, by developing a form where the visual follows and is shaped by audio/music, the film is a celebrated and acknowledged step in the search for new aesthetics of cinema.
Kumar Shahani is one of the most significant filmmakers working in India today. He has developed an epic idiom that engages with contemporary issues. Shahani’s films explore cultural memories embedded in classical Indian art forms, texts and objects. His visual explorations of Indian music and dance, the classical Indian epic and contemporary literature mark his practice as unique in the history of Indian cinema. Shahani also engages with European cinematic traditions. His first feature, Mirror of Illusion (Maya Darpan) 1972, is regarded as India’s first formalist film. His oeuvre is considered alongside renowned directors — Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Rivette and others — whose work is similarly entwined with the visual arts.
Producer: Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
Entry - Free.