Competition


JOURNEYS



Country of production: India
Year: 2003
Language: English
Mins: 40

Director: Vinayan Kodoth
Script: Vinayan Kodoth
Cinematography: Sameer Mahajan
Editing: Narayanan A.V.
Sound: Mohandas V.P.
Producer: Anab Jain
Production company: Black Pepper Images
Source: Vinayan Kodoth
Black Pepper Images
10/A Tolak Nagar, Paldi
Ahmedabad 380007
INDIA
Phone: +91 79 6631301
Fax: +91 79 6640682
vinayankodoth@hotmail.co


What does it mean to be part of a desperate crowd of seven million commuters, to whom the journey between home and workplace is a nightmare. Every day, year after year. In Mumbai (Bombay), a city of 15 million people, life goes on as if nothing is out of place, even as nearly 4000 people are killed every year as they fall off of trains or are run over on the tracks.

It its treatment, the film uses sound and visual juxtapositions and actively builds a montage of this surreal world. Moving between the dramatic and the reflective, the film juxtaposes this tragic situation with mainstream discourses on progress and military power.

Richly detailed, poetic, and nearly non-verbal, JOURNEYS subtly and pointedly explores universal issues of space and human relations within a very specific environment.

Vinayan Kodoth was born in 1963, in Kerala, India. He completed a post-graduate degree in literature in 1986. In 1989 he joined the film direction program at the Film and Television Institue of India in Pune. Between 1992 and 1996, he worked in television in Mumbai (Bombay). Since 1996, he has taught film and video at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

filmography as director
(selected)
JOURNEYS (2003)
NAGAUR (2001)
VOICES (1999)
REFLEXIVE MALADIVES (1992)

Saturday 03-Apr-2004 9:00 PM Facets Cinematheque
Tuesday 06-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Beverly Arts Center
Screening with LIFE IN A BASKET