Friday 7 August 2015

Film Language is the Only Language I Know to Express Myself: Audrius Stonys

Audrius Stonys in his speech at the Master Class said that he doesn’t know any other way to express his ideas other than visual language. “The very important question is why one should make films. There could be many answers to that question. Making films to make money and making films to inform are the two answers in common.  It is hard to make money on documentary; there is lot other jobs to make money.  There is many other cheaper ways to inform as well, a television program, a written article or a radio broadcast, than making a film.” He responded
On the very same question he added that, “My answer is, make a film, if you see that the film language is the only possible way to say what you want to say, for me it is very essential. We have to use and we have to learn this specific cinema language which does not need any support. It can stand and deliver its purpose by itself.”
“A documentary is a very powerful tool which does not need any support. In a documentary images can speak, much more than words or music .When image can’t stand by itself then we use music and words in it. It is a distress and it actually kills the real cinema” he added.
 “Every issue can be told in the form of a fiction format too, as far as I concern an actor does not satisfy me, after all it is acting. That is why I go for documentaries than fiction, it is 100% real” he concluded.

 Anand Vattamannil

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IDSFFK the only one of its kind: R V Ramani

R V RAMANI

R V Ramani (jury member) finds IDSFFK as an awesome festival he is very much impressed with the quality of the entries.” IDSFFK is a wonderful festival organized by the State Government. The entries are wonderful films. We have seen a spectacular collection of brilliant long and short documentaries.  It is the only one of its kind in India”, he said.
On the challenges of documentary film making: “A documentary doesn’t have a script in a sense that we work in real situations. The script may not be there in a textual form, but it is always in our mind, there definitely is a thought process in working.  It can’t be pre-structured, in documentary film making we have to work with whatever happens in front of us, we have to mold with it and to move with it. Docu-film is a daring thing to some extent.”
On the market of Docu-films: “The Documentaries have a different market but we can sell anything if we work on it. If we can sell soap then we can sell art films too. If your craft is good your film will travel around the world, which brings you money fame and recognition”, said Ramani

Social commitments of documentaries: “Every human being has the responsibility to respond to the social issues, most people are contributing to the society in one way or other. It is not the job of a film maker only to create awareness. It can spark a thought or convey a message. Like a powerful incendiary speech, films sometimes create an impact on the people”, said Ramani

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Amit Dutta Movies Beckon Movie Buffs to IDSFFK


Eighth IDSFFK 2015 is felicitating the contemporary film maker Amit Dutta by screening 10 of his well acclaimed works. Amit Dutta has his own signature style of storytelling. As an experimental film maker he concatenates the elements of research and documentation with open imagination. Rich and aesthetically stimulating images based on Indian aesthetic theory and personal symbolism are the rudiment elements of his films, which entices the spectators. History, ethno-anthropology and cultural inheritance are the basic plot subjects he used in his piece of arts. The montage snippets in his films normally intersperse between characters and historical reminiscences, fairy tales and children stories, which are eye baffling. The audience will definitely get something to take with them after watching an Amit Dutta movie.

Film buffs and dilettantes in India and abroad, regarded this 2004 FTII graduate as one among the most elusive, exciting and finest film makers in India. Amit Dutta’s films have received international acclamation including Gold Mikaldi at Bilbao (Spain), the Golden Conch and Best Film of the Festival Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), the FIPRESCI critic’s award in the Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany, the John Abraham National Award, and four times the National Award of India. A retrospective of his work was held at Oberhausen Film Festival(Germany) in 2010.He is named among the Best New Film Makers of the decade by the Ferroni Brigade group of film critics in 2011. 

In 2013 he was invited by the Venice Film Festival to make a short film for its 70th anniversary on the theme, “The Future of Cinema”.
His films being screened at the festival are, Chithrasala,Even Red Can Be Sad, Ramkhind, a Warli Village, Jangrah Film-One, Gita Govinda,Field Trip, The Museum of Imagination:A Potrait in Absentia, Nainsukh 2010, Venice Quote and, Saatvin Sair.