Filmed in the tombs of the Paigah family in Hyderabad, India, this film tells the tale through noise and silence, flicker and stillness, of a tradition of architecturally outdoing your ancestors: even in death’s eternal sleep. A film about unresolved crescendos, thwarted anticipations and unmanaged escalations, told through architecture gone awry.
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Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
