Films That Can't Be Told

[...] when Dutta becomes visible in a wardrobe mirror in Ramkhind, the setup is an artful jest signifying, This is a documentary.\n The latter are represented by blurry video shots of a presumably communalist (i.e. sectarian) massacre; the former is evoked by an image that Dutta will return to in th...

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Published in:Film comment 2007-11, Vol.43 (6), p.24-25
Main Author: Möller, Olaf
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Cameras
Children
Documentary films
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Movies
Narrative poetry
Narratives
olaf's world
Sound
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Summary:[...] when Dutta becomes visible in a wardrobe mirror in Ramkhind, the setup is an artful jest signifying, This is a documentary.\n The latter are represented by blurry video shots of a presumably communalist (i.e. sectarian) massacre; the former is evoked by an image that Dutta will return to in the future: a book's pages flying upward and scattering as the old woman catches hold of one of those precious fragments of her history.
ISSN:0015-119X