A contemporary variation on Hiroshima, mon amour by Alain Resnais, but then with great emphasis on the use of colour and narrated by the nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Visual artist Mohanty again calls for us to reflect on the blinding power of the atom, starting with the first descriptions of nuclear explosions in Los Alamos and the Bhagavad Gita.
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I’ll Be Late for Dinner
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Scales in the Spectrum of Space
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Between the Bullet and the Hole
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The Exquisite Corpus
After a deceptively quiet prelude, Tscherkassky tears the integrity of naked bodies to pieces and aims our voyeuristic gaze completely at the medium i
Film details
- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- File
