Short animated films
1) PRINTED RAINBOW – Gitanjali Rao ( 15 minutes)
2) THE FRIEND (15 mins.) and FREEDOM SONG (5 mins.) – Narayan Shi
3) HUA NOOR (6 minutes) and STILL LIFE (3:30mins.) – Kunal Sen
4) AASAE (3.30 mins) and CLEAR BLUE (2 mins.) – Archana Prasad
On Saturday July 15 at 6.30pmThe screenings will be followed by an interaction with GITANJALI RAO, whose ‘Printed Rainbow’ has received three awards at Cannes 2006.
PRINTED RAINBOW
This is a story narrated in animation about the loneliness faced by people in a big city. An old woman living in a typical matchbox city apartment, lives a regular, routine, almost mundane existence with her cat. Her only respite comes from sitting in the afternoon rummaging through her matchbox collection. She gets transported into the fantastic, colorful worlds of printed matchbox labels and travels through little streams enveloped in dense forests, abandoned palaces that come alive; she rides trucks, runs free across meadows, she does everything her imagination desires, reliving her childhood at times, by making her dreams come alive.
PRINTED RAINBOW has received three awards at Cannes 2006.
FREEDOM SONG
The film uses Madhubani and Kalighat styles of painting for the whole work. It is based on a folk story that stresses on the need to protect Nature, the animals and birds. It has won some prestigious awards like the Golden Conch and the Critics Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Best Animation Film at the Japan Wildlife Film Festival.
THE FRIEND
When a frog offers to rescue her doll in exchange for friendship, the little princess in the Maharajah’s court hastily agrees and embarks on a journey that will teach her the meaning of true friendship.
HUA NOOR observes time in an old watchmaker’s life.
STILL LIFE looks at what happens when a student exercise in ‘still life’ decides to go ‘animation’ on its own free will.
AASAE attempts to capture the the simple desires of a woman to spend time on caring and grooming herself amidst the rush of everyday modern life. It uses the metaphor of a Bharatanatyam dancer in the process of Sringaram to illustrate this mood. The film is made using a combination of classical cel animation and rotoscopy, and uses both pencils with pastels and oil paint on glass in the colouring technique. The soundtrack takes from an old Kannada bhavageetha.
CLEAR BLUE is about seeing and being seen. This film speaks of the observer becoming the observed. It is a comment of the West looking at the East (India) and the discomfort a role reversal creates. The film uses a hand treated colouring process with a 3D animation technique.
2) THE FRIEND (15 mins.) and FREEDOM SONG (5 mins.) – Narayan Shi
3) HUA NOOR (6 minutes) and STILL LIFE (3:30mins.) – Kunal Sen
4) AASAE (3.30 mins) and CLEAR BLUE (2 mins.) – Archana Prasad
On Saturday July 15 at 6.30pmThe screenings will be followed by an interaction with GITANJALI RAO, whose ‘Printed Rainbow’ has received three awards at Cannes 2006.
PRINTED RAINBOW
This is a story narrated in animation about the loneliness faced by people in a big city. An old woman living in a typical matchbox city apartment, lives a regular, routine, almost mundane existence with her cat. Her only respite comes from sitting in the afternoon rummaging through her matchbox collection. She gets transported into the fantastic, colorful worlds of printed matchbox labels and travels through little streams enveloped in dense forests, abandoned palaces that come alive; she rides trucks, runs free across meadows, she does everything her imagination desires, reliving her childhood at times, by making her dreams come alive.
PRINTED RAINBOW has received three awards at Cannes 2006.
FREEDOM SONG
The film uses Madhubani and Kalighat styles of painting for the whole work. It is based on a folk story that stresses on the need to protect Nature, the animals and birds. It has won some prestigious awards like the Golden Conch and the Critics Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Best Animation Film at the Japan Wildlife Film Festival.
THE FRIEND
When a frog offers to rescue her doll in exchange for friendship, the little princess in the Maharajah’s court hastily agrees and embarks on a journey that will teach her the meaning of true friendship.
HUA NOOR observes time in an old watchmaker’s life.
STILL LIFE looks at what happens when a student exercise in ‘still life’ decides to go ‘animation’ on its own free will.
AASAE attempts to capture the the simple desires of a woman to spend time on caring and grooming herself amidst the rush of everyday modern life. It uses the metaphor of a Bharatanatyam dancer in the process of Sringaram to illustrate this mood. The film is made using a combination of classical cel animation and rotoscopy, and uses both pencils with pastels and oil paint on glass in the colouring technique. The soundtrack takes from an old Kannada bhavageetha.
CLEAR BLUE is about seeing and being seen. This film speaks of the observer becoming the observed. It is a comment of the West looking at the East (India) and the discomfort a role reversal creates. The film uses a hand treated colouring process with a 3D animation technique.