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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris
October 4th - 14th, 2018
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Focus India
The Poetical Complexity of Mythological Societies |
Saturday 13, october
2018 / Noon
Maison du Portugal
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris |
Puskhar Myths
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Pushkar Puran |
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Kamal Swaroop
India
2017 | 1:40:00
“All year one sensed a hidden tension, all year something was going on
in preparation for those days, as if the ultimate purpose of the year
was to home in on those three days.”
Twenty-nine kilometers from Ajmer, surrounded by the Aravalli hills,
in the heart of the Thar Desert is a lake city called Pushkar. To the
Hindus of the world, it is second in holiness only to Mansarovar.
During the full moon in the month of Kartik, the town and the nearby
dunes become an enormous fairground. Thousands of villagers bring
cattle, camels and horses to trade. Folk artists, musicians, Ferris
wheels and merry-go-rounds appear like a mirage in the desert, only to
vanish with the decapitation of Brahm?’s fifth head.
Avant Garde filmmaker Kamal Swaroop explores the ancient myths and
politicking of Indian Gods as the heavens descend and the water in the
lake turns holy. |
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October 4 - 14 , 2018
The FISDN present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.
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