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A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.
Mixing documentary and personal memories, the work portrays the flood‐stricken Indian city of Mumbai after the monsoon of 2005. The artist revisits the neighborhood from which the work takes its name and uses it to piece together a mosaic that is, at once, a portrait of devastation and its emotional consequences, and an analysis of the crumbling of personal sanctuaries, in a universal sense.
Transgender Khush wants to transform his female body into a muscly Bollywood one. Suman is a musician whose work criticises the conservative socio-political climate in India. Their lives keep intersecting in this modern, hybrid portrait of the metropolis Mumbai. Exceptional, stimulating and original.
Darkness intimately meanders through the passage of time imperceptibly tracing the path from night to light. The every day activities of people done in partial or total absence of light makes it hard to decipher what the viewer sees or yet again makes the viewer see more carefully, a way to glimpse a deeper reality. Sometimes the people seem at ease with darkness its almost as if night is not meant to be lit. Yet we see children playing and struggling to study in darkness and that makes one question the comfort with the dark.
