O Lover of Life: Experimental Narrative From India
Pooja Kaul's videos are among the most original I've
seen. They can be frustratingly elusive at first, but
over time their gentle elisions and off-center framing
suggest that the most important aspects of human
experience are intangible feelings not reducible to
imagery. O Lover of Life (2003, in Hindi with
subtitles) depicts a tentative romance between
neighbors with silhouettes of the characters, often
isolated from one another. Seemingly, the affair is
never consummated: a voice on the sound track sings,
"Come, darling, come," but the woman is shown walking
past the man. In their closest encounter he shows her
some miniature paintings, an interlude that suggests a
spiritual rather than corporeal connection. Kaul's
Winter Trail (2002), about "India's first modern
painter," the half-Hungarian Amrita Sher-Gil, is
similarly oblique, offering only glimpses of her art.
Kaul will attend the screening. Also showing: Vipin
Vijay's The Razor's Edge (2002). 71 min. -- Fred
Camper
This movie will play at: the Gene Siskel Film Center
Thursday at 8 pm
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We, who are parts of Adam, heard with him
The song of angels and of seraphim.
Our memory, though dull and sad, retains
Some echo still of those unearthly strains.
Rumi
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