TRAILER: A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE (2011)

A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE
35mm Film, Color, Stereo, 52''
Hindi, Tamil with English Subtitles
© 2011 India/ Germany
Courtesy of KOW Berlin & Mario Pfeifer & [blackboardfilms]

A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE describes a contemporary Asian Metropolis through an observational, anthropological approach to filmmaking. The scenery depicted in the nine episodes portrays landscape, architecture, interiors or humans from rural communities to factories, medical facilities or ancient and religious sites. The sites all share miraculous beauty, yet the film explores a critical, self-reflexive and aesthetic exploration of the cities development as well as its cultural phenomena. Slowly establishing two characters, the film leaves its' documentarian nature and progresses into a narrative, which follows two humans, sharing their movements in time and space letting us remember a cinema of love in the Asian context.

Shot on 35mm in only single takes, the production of the film attempts to be aware of its outsider position looking at a contemporary, vastly booming Third World Country and it's cultural history of 5,000 years by capturing and re-enacting experienced situations. Trying to avoid a clear genre definition to this film, it is entirely shot on location in the city of Mumbai and it's suburbia. Both performers, Gopal and Nandani, work regular day jobs and live in Bombay's suburbia - and have never participated in a film project ever in their lives before.

Director of Photography: Avijit Mukul Kishore
Sound Design: Thomas Wallmann
Assistant Director / Research Assistant: Sujata Venkateswaran
Sound Operator: Suresh Rajamani

Casting: Mario Pfeifer / Sujata Venkateswaran / Parul Wadhwa

Production /Location Manager: Dhiraj Singh
Production Assistant: Parul Wadhwa
Colorist: Emilio Batungbacal

Supported by Kodak Mumbai, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Awarded by werkleitz - centre for media art - for a post-production grant

Produced by [blackboardfilms]
Conceived by Mario Pfeifer

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Film & Animation

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