Muktikara, from the Sanskrit ‘gentle gazing brings liberation’, is also the name of the particular body of water which is the image-subject of the film. Landscape as ‘inscape’. Not inertly present but beckoning an active perception; a seeing and a seeing into.
Also in this combined programme
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The West (SFO)
Poetic and penetrating short documentary takes us to Hoover Dam and through Death Valley.
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Vacancy
Personal and layered evocation of the ‘dream city’ Brasilia, made by one of the masters of the short film Matthias Müller.
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da capo: variations on a train with Anna
Bach’s Prelude No. 24 in B-minor was juxtaposed with pictures of a moving train.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1999
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2000
- Length
- 12"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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