Screening
ECIB
30-10-2025 / 19:00 h.
Film Information
Year: 2024
Duration: 83'
Language: VOSC
Genre: Animation
Synopsis
Kumar Gandharav was a singer with a unique and in many ways, incomparable style. A child prodigy who gave his first performances at the age of ten, Gandharav’s career seemed all but finished when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in his mid-twenties. This period of illness became the source of many stories and myths of a man lying in his bed listening to the sounds of the world around him. Sometimes he practiced, singing so softly that it was hardly audible beyond his bed. The film takes this period and expands it, where his life of music and contemplation moves like a dream.
Director
Amit Dutta (1977) is an Indian avant-garde filmmaker. He has worked in animation since his earliest shorts, and is known for his distinctive style rooted in Indian aesthetic theories and personal symbolism. His works mostly deal with subjects of art history, ethno-anthropology and cultural inheritance through cinema, many times merging research and documentation with an open imagination. His works include feature-length and short films such as Kramasha (To Be Continued, 2007), Nainsukh (2010) and Sonchidi (2011). More recent films include How Not to Do Philosophy (2020), Animating the Archive (2023), and Rhythm of a Flower (2024), projected in the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR).
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