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That Cloud Never Left
Mundane Life Meets Magical Daydreams
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65 mins | Bengali with English subtitles | 2019 | India
Director: Yashaswini Raghunandan
Cinematographer: Paromita Dhar
Editor: Abhro Banerjee
Sound Design: Bigyna Dahal
In Daspara, a village 200 km outside of Calcutta, hundreds of toys are produced every day: rattles, whistles, windmills, all made by hand. The raw materials used are old strips of film, detritus from the archives of Bollywood. What matters isn’t so much the pictures that are used by the workers, but rather the material and the clicking sound that the strips of film make. As the villagers follow this routine with uninterrupted monotony, a few narratives leak out from the shredded analogues of film and infuse the place with phantasmagoria.
The film has won numerous awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival and Jio MAMI.
After the screening, the director, Yashaswini Raghunandan and the Cinematographer, Paromita Dhar will be in conversation with Sunanda Bhat.
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Yashaswini Raghunandan
Yashaswini works as a film-maker and a sound-designer. She is based in Bangalore, India. Her 2019 film, That Cloud Never Left, was supported by the People’s Archive of Rural India and premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Best Experimental Film award at Sharjah Film Program 2019. She has been a resident of the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and a recipient of the Inlaks Scholarship to study sound art at the Royal College of Art, London.
Paromita Dhar
Holdin a masters in Film from the University of Technology, Sydney, Paromita is the award winning cinematographer of Behind the Tin Sheets. Birha which she filmed, premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and IDFA. She directed her In Between about Bangladeshi immigrants in Madrid. She is currently working on her first feature length fiction film Last time on Earth, is a recipient of the Hubert Bals script and project development funds and a participant at the NFDC screenwriters lab. She has been a part of Berlinale Talents.
Sunanda Bhat
Sunanda is a Bangalore based filmmaker. Her interest in textures that emerge as ‘ordinary’ peoples’ lives intersect with layers of landscape, continue to shape her work. Her films have screened at IDFA, Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, Planet in Focus Film Festival, Toronto, International Film Festival of India among several others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Kochi Muziris Biennale and as is part of the collective Vikalp Bengaluru, committed to the screening of non-fiction cinema in the city.
