![]() And in that tension resides the mystery of art. The more you move away, keeping the essence in mind, a delicious kind of tension emerges. So I try to move away from the subject, simultaneously keeping it in mind. For me cinema is not a medium of communication but of mystery. He said something very interesting once: “Raga is between the notes.” Similar is John Cage's famous quote: “Silence is music, music is not silence.” The more you hide, the more it becomes beautiful-cinema. ![]() He lived in India in great poverty but later moved to America where he had a huge influence on American minimalist and experimental musicians like Terry Riley, Monte Young, etc. Whatever I read about him or music of his I heard, he came across as a wonderful personality. He was quite an influence on me at the film school. Can you speak a bit about what the filming of this material might entail for you? The same can be said about the book images and texts you show in Museum of Imagination, where a question about what is being shown inevitably emerges. Moreover sometimes the camera seems to be more concerned with the walls and corners of the building, with spaces between and around the frames than with the artworks under them. For example in Chitrashala (2015) and Museum of Imagination (2012), the filming of artworks in the museum is quite intriguing: Blurred sequences are common, as well as images where the reflection of the glass renders the paintings under it invisible. I want to ask you about the filming of some of your material. Each film streams for the duration of one week.Īmit Dutta in Conversation with Iman Issa ![]() A new film and part of the conversation are released every Monday. ![]() The Films of Amit Dutta runs in six weekly episodes from March 7 through April 18, 2022, and features six films by Amit Dutta accompanied by a conversation in six parts between Amit Dutta and Iman Issa, published in text form. In Chitrashala, when a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains rise within the paintings.Ĭhitrashala is the third installment of The Films of Amit Dutta, a selection of films programmed by Iman Issa as the tenth cycle of Artist Cinemas, a long-term, online series of film programs curated by artists for e-flux Video & Film. ![]()
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