A complex video journey on a motorcar, that incorporates mythic themes of searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future. It also serves as a map of current cultural desires, dreams and fears. It begins its Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle as the subject enters the “suburbs of hell”, the psycho-geographical zone in transition where the soft technologies of the interior (the body) and the hard technologies of the exterior (the environment) are thrown together in collision and almost surgically cut each other up. —Delhi Film Archive
Vipin Vijay, is a post graduate in filmmaking Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, SRFTI, Calcutta. In 2003, he received the Charles Wales Arts Award for research at the British Film Institute (BFI), London and the India Office Records, London. He received support from IDFA, Amsterdam, Hubert Bals Film Fund, Rotterdam, Goteborg Film Fund, Sweden, and the Global Film Initiative for his works. His films have won Short Tiger Award-IFF Rotterdam, National Jury Award, National Film Awards, India, Golden Pearl-HIFF, International Jury prize, Kodak Award, Kerala State Film & TV Award, IDPA Award, and the John Abraham National Awards (2005 and 2006). His films have widely been shown in festivals at Rotterdam, Karlovyvary, Oberhausen, Montreal, Japan, Karachi, Tehran, Chicago, Seattle, Berkley, Mexico, Croatia, Milan, and the Indian Panorama. Two of his films have been acquired for permanent archive at the U.S. Library of Congress. He is the recipient of the prestigious Sanskriti… read more
A very pretentious and shallow film. Unfortunate that this represents "cutting edge" Indian cinema..
Cinema cruises through space and time in a black Ambassador, delta blues on the radio and the windows halfway rolled down
Part of it is an update on the concerns of Ajantrik, the rest I didn't quite get. Very nicely shot though, and I love the sound design.
