Mark LaPore: ‘A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city at once medieval and modern.’ Bodies emerge from vaporous passageways, figures traverse flooded streets. Silver packets dance as if sentient, humans linger somnolent or at the tempo required by their trades. Calcutta, an actual city like all cities nestled on the meridian between the imaginary and the mundane, is here immersed in a pandemonium of sonic distortion, the cawing of scavenger crows, the mad repetitions of competing pitches and a toxic reduction of Beethoven fit for the realms of intersection between capital city and carrion. (MM)
Also in this combined programme
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The Glass System
Largely a portrait of Calcutta, but the film can also lead us to make personal assumptions about a ‘lost’ New York. -
Lunatic Princess
And magical loop of time changing form with a snow daughter, an orphan of the storm. Reminiscent of the fairy tale by Anderson about the… -
Untitled (for David Gatten)
A valentine card or a greetings card, a well meant homage to courage and perseverance in the form of a videogame that Wittgenstein could play. -
The Sleepers
Shots of the countryside of Sudan, Eastern Europe and Chinatown in New York, serenade human uprooting, insufficient information and the mutual influen
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
