Malayalam
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AN OFF-DAY GAME (Dir. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, 2015, India: Malayalam)
Director Sasidharan’s experimental, anthropological dispositif takes a group of friends, lets them drink, throws them into the jungle, and then steps back with his camera, adopting tableau to frame their cruel, animalistic and casteist behaviour. The effect is unnerving to say the least, made altogether confrontational with the presence of a lower caste woman who Continue reading
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PAPILIO BUDDHA (Dir. Jayan Cherian, 2014, India)
So many voices go unheard in the media. The oppressed, the minorities, those fighting for their very existence are blotted out of history, expunged since they do not fit the dominant narrative being mythologised, one in which Gandhi’s Satyagraha is continually promoted as the egalitarian solution to most of the divisions that still exist in Continue reading
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BIOSCOPE (Dir. K. M. Madhusudhanan, 2008, India) – Phantasmagoria
The Bioscope, an early film projector, created by Charles Urban in 1897, is the magical invention that forms the basis for Keralan director K. M. Madhusudhanan’s visually imposing feature. Bioscope explores the suspicions aroused when local man Diwakaran introduces moving pictures to a village. The film portrays the early power of moving images, detailing the Continue reading
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