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SHADOWS FORMLESS (Nirakar Chhaya)
Ashish Avikunthak, India, 2007; 82 min. US Premiere.
In Bengali with English subtitles. |
Synopsis:
A stranger enters the life of a lonely woman abandoned by her husband. Is he, as he claims, a former lover or a projection of her yearning for passion that transforms her reality? Shadows Formless is an interpretation of the Malayalam novella Pandavpuram by the distinguished novelist Setumadhavan from Kerela. Admirers of directors like Mani Kaul and Kumar Shahani will welcome this work from outside the established alternative to popular Indian cinema. With Mandira Banerjee, Deepak Haldar, Sweta Tiwari. |
Director: Ashish Avikunthak is an experimental filmmaker who has been making films in India from the mid nineties. His films have been shown in various film festivals around the world. His short film Kalighat Fetish won the Best Documentary award in 2001 at the Tampere Film Festival, Finland. His films have been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, Centre George Pompidou, Paris and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley among other locations. He has had retrospective of his works at Goethe Institute, Calcutta (2004), Les Inattendus, Lyon (2006) and at Yale University (2008).
Mr. Avikunthak's first feature length film, Shadows Formless, had its world premier at the Locarno Film Festival in 2007. He has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University and currently teaches at Yale University. |
Screening Venue:
Tribeca Cinemas 1. Saturday, November 8 at 3 PM.
Tickets for Tribeca Cinemas
Museum of Arts and Design. Sunday, November 9 at 3 PM.
Tickets for Musuem of Arts and Design |
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