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[[Through the looking glass]]
  
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The family, consisting of the child Phalke and his parents, leaves for Bombay.
 
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1879 - 86 - BOMBAY
 
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The train moves on.
 
  
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After a time, it enters a cave-like Victoria Terminus, almost as though entering a camera obscura, and halts.
 
  
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A crowd gets off.
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[[Phalke, 1879 -86, Bombay]]
  
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Phalke is separated from his family and gets lost.
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"I am not interested in erecting a building, but presenting to myself the foundations of all possible buildings" Wittgenstein
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no, could (here?) be the meeting of all possible buildings to become another kind of building?
  
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[[Darkness descends]].
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Sir George Birdwood, seeing he 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace at London, which was about the triumph of European Science, but also became about the traditional decoration practiced by non industrial societies of the east (Partho mitter).. Birdwood
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in india 'everything is hand wrouhg, and everything down to the cheapest toy or earthern vessel, is thereofre more or les a work of art... embodying a system of decoration founded on perfect rinciples, which they have learned through centuries of practice to apply with unerring truth"
  
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He is alone in a deserted Victoria Terminus, bewitched by the carvings of gargoyles, lizards, lions, tigers, flora and fauna, like in a fairyland.
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'Birdwoods romantic anti industrial utopia was predicated on the so valled village republics of india. Village craftsmen, living in a harmonious communtiy, produced goods that had not been contaminatied by the Industrial Revolution. :Later, in the 1920's partly under the imapct of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian elite 'rediscovered' the simple rustic fillage folk. The nationalist pioneer in this was Gurusaday Dutt, a Bengali official in the impreal bureaucracy whose campaigns created an intense interest in the village arts among the urban elite. These included the kantha and other domestic arts produced byu women. Parto Mitter,Indian Art.
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Suddenly it starts to rain, and everything comes to life.
 
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Streams of water pour out of the stone mouths of mythical monsters, frothing at the jaws.
 
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Phalke is shaken, shivering with cold, crying for his father in the dark.
 
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But it is in a still [[unreal twilight]] outside VT station that a group of boys from the JJ School of Arts sits with hammers and knives, carving out figures on the terraces and the tops.
 
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The cotton loaders are teasing a Victoria look-alike, a mad woman at the fountain outside.
 
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Picking up leaves as if to build a nest, small birds move above.
 
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A Victoria enters and drags the woman away by the hair.
 
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A mad dog chases Phalke through a backdrop - streets, railway lines, ships and factories.
 
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He enters a palace and finds the princess stretching her arms and calling his name, and then metamorphosing into a frightening old woman.
 
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With a jerk, Phalke comes awake.
 

Latest revision as of 16:34, 5 January 2015

Through the looking glass


Phalke, 1879 -86, Bombay

"I am not interested in erecting a building, but presenting to myself the foundations of all possible buildings" Wittgenstein no, could (here?) be the meeting of all possible buildings to become another kind of building?

Sir George Birdwood, seeing he 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace at London, which was about the triumph of European Science, but also became about the traditional decoration practiced by non industrial societies of the east (Partho mitter).. Birdwood in india 'everything is hand wrouhg, and everything down to the cheapest toy or earthern vessel, is thereofre more or les a work of art... embodying a system of decoration founded on perfect rinciples, which they have learned through centuries of practice to apply with unerring truth"

'Birdwoods romantic anti industrial utopia was predicated on the so valled village republics of india. Village craftsmen, living in a harmonious communtiy, produced goods that had not been contaminatied by the Industrial Revolution. :Later, in the 1920's partly under the imapct of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian elite 'rediscovered' the simple rustic fillage folk. The nationalist pioneer in this was Gurusaday Dutt, a Bengali official in the impreal bureaucracy whose campaigns created an intense interest in the village arts among the urban elite. These included the kantha and other domestic arts produced byu women. Parto Mitter,Indian Art.