Deb Kamal Ganguly
Editing
Biography
After getting a Master in Geology, Debkamal Ganguly studied at one of the leading film schools in India, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata where he graduated in 2000. His film learning has opened for himself a widening gap between film practice and film scholarship. He wants to reconcile these two disciplines through his practice. As a son of parents who were direct victims of the partition of India in 1947 the notion of ancestral land is an elusive notion for him and maybe a reason for his interest in moving spaces and frames. As a conscious practitioner of video and film, he acts as an editor, script-writer, sound designer and overall creative collaborator and was awarded for his collaboration on Vipin Vijay’s Video Game with the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007. Beside his artistic activities Debkamal is also an independent researcher on various topics of popular Indian media culture. His current projects include a research project on early Indian cinema and in particular the silent era, as well as a video work on one of the most challenging Bengali writers of 20th century, Kamal Kumar Majumdar. His récent creation Videodrone is a part of the Video Art section of the Indian Highway exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2008/2009.
Known For
Maya the protagonist, on her way to the college, hears a radio news of a strange geometrical figure with the shape of a ‘tetrahedron’ that appears from nowhere besides the Nazca lines in Peru. In the mean time, Maya’s friend Divya’s father, Neelan, goes missing. Few days later he is found from a distant land with signatures of pre-historic habitats around the place. Maya meets a few people from distant lands, of different races, roaming around a desolated architecture. Are they humanoid creatures? By the end of the film, through a dream passage that connects both Maya and Divya, we get to know about the disappearance of Maya.
The Tetrahedron
A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather, and a female cyber-creature promote a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both online and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture. The film explores the possible correlation of digital aesthetics and black art, situated in post-human consciousness.
The Image Threads
The creative self of the Master Adoor Gopalakrishnan gets explored through self-reflections, memories and conceptual interventions.
Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu
Vipin Vijay's Palace of the Winds is a poetic essay about that "Holy Little Box," the radio, conceived of as a ghostly transmitter of Indian cultural artifacts.