EKTI NADIR NAAM – The Name of a River Sunday at 19.00-22.00 The Bioscope Independent Cinema, Johannesburg Pierre Friquet presents two nights of short films, documentaries and feature films from India. THE NAME OF A RIVER - Anup Singh India 2001 90 minutes In The Name of a River, Anup Singh uses a love story between a man and a woman crossing the river between Bangladesh and India – playing the roles of refugees, divine beings and literary and cinematic characters – to understand the mysteries of the events that led to the massacre of half a million people and forced ten million people to migrate across the newly established borders. Covering a huge area of visual, aural and intellectual ground within its 90 minutes, this exquisite film presents its audience with a dreamlike odyssey through a history, a life and a work that we, the viewers, encounter in the shape of stunning landscapes and music, lovers and gods, myths and memories, literature and cinema. Anup Singh was born in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania in East Africa. Sea journeys had filled his childhood and youth. He graduated in literature and philosophy from the Bombay University. He graduated in direction from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune in 1986. His first film, a half-hour journey into the lives of three different generations of refugee women, won the Hauptpreis at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 1988. He has worked as an assistant director, art director and scriptwriter with a few avant-garde film- makers in India.The Name of the River is his first feature film.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 10:43:30 +0000
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