Presentation at Mami

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YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS TO DREAM?

Horn (5 years, 3 months): You know what it is to dream? - Yes. It's when you see people.- Where is the dream?- In the smoke- What smoke?- The smoke that comes from the bedclothes. -Where do dreams come from?- From here( pointing to the stomach). - Then how is it that they are in the bedclothes while you are dreaming?- Because you know it's like that.

[1] the mist over brahmagiri

Saurin.jpg


Kamal mum workshop.jpg

Ganesh Kumbhar story

THE FLYING PRINCE

The Phalke project was able to be about the imagination because it worked with material. (litanies from books had to be made our synapses, a diving board we might jump off from and find- a new way of sticking two pieces of paper together. ) A history of the phalke project itself would yield a history of a diversity of- material processes. Once upon a time, there was a scrap book, the filmaker's dhundiraj phalke's life story written and painstakingly typed by Priya, and against the long rectangle of those typed words on paper, Kamal had tried to mine individual words- turtle for Kashyap in the underwater womb of the mother. Parsing words like walnuts, or listening to their puns, their synonyms, their reflections in water- anything where the material of the typewritten words could yield more. And brochures brought out at art galleries in town, always far from where almost all artists working in film lived..were brought back to cull images and culled images were recombined

i in a world you know nothing about, to dream, you must first find material, walk by it, river shore in nasik, stare into faces reading your words through the glasses of your camera, stick walls up with pages of a book you stuck into being, wait by rectangular windows in your long drawer like rooms in Baroda as the rain soaks the banyans and the stone cats in the fine arts courtyard, will someone be writing a story for you?