The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.

228MB | 24m 02s | 676×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/EA01E26240B8B63/Jangarh_Film_Ek_(2008)_-_A.Dutta.mkv

Language:Hindi
Subtitles:English hardcoded

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How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely suggested by Amit Dutta’s latest film. As a camera explores the architecture of a museum, we hear a description of a painting we never see. Eventually, we leave the building behind and examine the remains of a temple, exposed to weather and war. Sensual and rigorous, THE GAME OF SHIFTING MIRRORS reaffirms Dutta’s place as India’s most accomplished experimental filmmaker. (Michael Sicinski)

585MB | 25m 30s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/79E7D8B04B80010/The_Game_of_Shifting_Mirrors.mkv

Language:Hindi
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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Synopsis
Amit Dutta recorded several conversations with Prof. B.N. Goswamy, an important art historian of India, covering his entire body of work. Interspersed with his talks were also some silences. This film draws upon some of those moments of silence and weaves them into a web of ideas and images that fill the art-historian’s mindscape.

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Prof. Goswamy is eminent for his ground-breaking work on Pahari art. The director has interwoven architectural and historical spaces that are part of the art-historian’s work, life and legacy, from the moss-laden relics of the Kangra Valley to Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh.

Reviews:
“ extraordinary, intriguing and unconventional portrait.”
– Rotterdam International Film Festival

“ lovely and thoughtful.”
– Andréa Picard, Film Krant

“…it is as though, while viewing, we are actually involved in an investigative process, the placement of these images (and their past meanings) becoming an active, striving concern. This is a tough film, but one I admire greatly.”
– Michael Sicinski

“ a web of ideas and images that fill the art-historian’s mindscape.”
– Viennale

“…Dutta pushes the palimpsestic project of Nainsukh even further, not only conflating works of art with the landscapes that inspired them, but also engaging with the subsequent scholarship on those works. Art and life are inseparable, interchangeable… Where, exactly, does the work of art exist in Dutta’s Museum? On paper, in the mind of its creator, in the collective imagination of its admirers, or in the reality from which it originally drew?”
– Max Nelson, CinemaScope

570MB | 19m 47s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CC413A13539AE5C/The_Museum_of_Imagination-_A_Portrait_in_Absentia_(2012).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Synopsis
Two travelers journey in search of a flying-craft that can deliver them from this world to other dimensions of existence, all the while voicing and recording their memories and thoughts.

https://nitro.download/view/E5FB3A49AEE2853/Sonchidi-_The_Golden_Bird_(2011).mkv

Language(s):Hindi
Subtitles:English hard coded

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Synopsis

A painter’s journey into the source of his inspiration in the landscape surrounding him and within him.

Notes:

Shot on super-16mm film, this is an abstract exploration of the creative process. Starting with ‘Nainsukh’, his 2010 film on the eponymous 17th century master-painter, Amit Dutta started making a series of films located in the Kangra Valley of the Lower Western Himalayas. This film approaches another shade of the same landscape through the modernist paintings of Paramjit Singh, whose mud home-studio in the hills sets the stage in the film.

The film’s musical score is notable for Amit Dutta’s collaboration with Rudra Veena maestro Bahauddin Dagar.

2.39GB | 1h 12mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4455D7049BDE093/The_Seventh_Walk_(2013).mkv

Language:Hindi
Subtitles:English hardcoded

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Synopsis
A tree is felled in the neighborhood and a worm finds its way to a new home.

MUBI’s Take:- A tree is felled in the neighborhood and a worm finds its way to a new home.

206MB | 5m 11s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/511C38121BB2AD3/The.Day.a.Tree.Fell.2019.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

Language:None
Subtitles:None

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Amir Dutta’s latest film, Wittgenstein Plays Chess With Marcel Duchamp, Or How Not To Do Philosophy, is a 17-minute animation that adapts an essay of the same name by Steven B. Gerrard. The essay examines how Wittgenstein and Duchamp, both keen chess players, used the game to question language and perception. The film has a winking style of animation—by the director’s wife, Ayswarya S. Dutta—that involves the juxtaposition of cutout figures, objects and backgrounds. It’s a sprightly investigation into the nature of surface appearances and how we perceive meaning, packed with allusions to art, linguistics, philosophy and chess.

721MB | 17m 04s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1018257467FABA2/Wittgenstein.Plays.Chess.With.Marcel.Duchamp,.or.How.Not.To.Do.Philosophy.2010.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

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