Theatre – Discussion – Gender & India

https://youtu.be/htcexWCP-70

3 Conversations With Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Cinema as per Adoorhttps://youtu.be/ihx-1gQc0qg On his early film, film societies and festival circuitshttps://youtu.be/StLMTPv2loc On theatre and cinemahttps://youtu.be/xF3r2sheaxE

Talk On Architecture & Art History Of Nagaur

https://youtu.be/GBNaC6uWRdI

Size does matter

I came across this fascinating video on how aspect ratio has evolved over the years and has shaped our movie watching experience. http://vimeo.com/68830569 Have you ever wondered if your movie going experience would be any different had you watched it in a different theater?  The answer seems intuitive right...of course it would be, sound systems,...

Evolution of film titles

In continuation to our discussion on evolution of films... http://vimeo.com/ntsdpz/filmbeforefilm

It’s celluloid… it’s digital…no, it’s cinema.

It probably requires a more experienced and learned mind to explore something so technical in an art form. But this technicality results in a gratification for the viewer, making him the most apt administrator of subjectivity. The argument is fairly simple; digital vs. celluloid. Like all things new, digital has its fair share of detractors...

Side By Side

For almost one hundred years there was only one way to make a movie — with film. Movies were shot, edited and projected using photochemical film. But over the last two decades a digital process has emerged to challenge photochemical filmmaking. SIDE BY SIDE, a new documentary produced by Keanu Reeves, takes an in-depth look...

Dilli ki Sardi (this post is in Hindi)

  Lo, ek baar phir se thand aa gayi hai. Agar Dilli ke context mein is mausam ko dekha jaaye to ye aur bhi zyaada romaani aur artful lagta hai. Sirf 2-3 mahinon ki is aalas se bhari, kambal-razaai mein lipti aur dhundh se dhaki thand agar na hoti to Dilli kitna weeraan hota. Aur...

TEN (ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, 2002) – A REVIEW

If one ever wanted to see the invisible oppressive face the Man, this film makes one see ten distinct poses of patriarch power. A divorced mother navigates the Man’s world in her car while she drives her son to his grandmother’s house. It seems that the mother, in trying to convince her son to stay...

Bhrashtamev Jayate (Hail Corruption)

  Here is the cartoon that won Aseem Trivedi imprisonment in a case of sedition. Unbelievable! A massive democracy like India can be forced to jitters by a mere drawing not only shows the insecurity of the State but rather ironically, it also gives hope to the millions of dissenters. At least there is a reaction to...