माटी मानस Mati Manas (The Mind of Clay)_FULLHD1080pwithEnglishSubtitles I 1985 I Mani Kaul
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Directed by Mani Kaul
Cinematography: Venu I.S.C
Concept: Kamal Swaroop
Story and Research: Kamal Swaroop, Mani Kaul
Edited by Reena Mohan, Lalita Krishna
Background Score: Mangesh Desai
Flute: T. R. Mahalingam, Courtesy: Gramophone Company India
Lights: N.C. Thade
Sound: Farookh Patel
Sound Recordist: A. M. Padmanabhan
Producer: Lalita Krishna
Presented by Handicraft Development Commission, NFDC, Infrakino Film Production Pvt.Ltd.,
In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives. Pots are shown in many settings, including a museum where a young child is mesmerized by the ceramics that ancient ancestors created from clay. The tradition continues and so does its magic, as potters are shown deftly working a lump of wet clay and fashioning it moment by moment into a slowly emerging shape. Kaul blends in myth and fables as well as the beauty of the art itself to create an inspiring look at a humble, everyday object. An episodic film about the ancient Indian tradition of terracotta sculpture and pottery and the several legends associated with this tradition. The artefacts involved include some of the oldest items of Indian civilization (from the Indus Valley, 2500BC) and have been, together with the legends associated with terracotta techniques, central to historical research into e.g. the origins of patriarchy, the shift from pastoral to agrarian systems, etc. "Mani Kaul was commissioned by the Festival of India 1985 to make a film about the art of clay pottery in India. His response was to wander in a tourist bus (with his film crew of twenty persons) up and down North India looking at the lives and longings of ancient communities of potters. Museum curators complained that Mani Kaul had not stopped in to film their exquisite pieces of one sort or another but Mani Kaul was not interested in a catalogue of fine things. He wanted rather discover the myths and states of mind out of which pots were made and to render these states of mind through his own shaping of the medium of cinema. 'I wanted,' Mani Kaul says, 'to know the anguish of the potter through my own anguish as a filmmaker.'" Satti Khanna Like his earlier film, Satah Se Uthatha Aadmi [L'uomo che si erge dalla superficie], on the Hindi writer Muktibodh, Mati Manas is multilinear and defies the conventional distinction between a documentary and fiction film, thus creating, what Mani calls, "a non-fictional reality". The film traces our entire cultural superstructure, myths, rituals etc. in the act of pottery making, one of man's earliest occupations. Mani's film starts with a museum exhibiting terracotta of the past and moves out to the vast central Indian plains which saw the rise of one of the most ancient civilisations of the world, and the extreme south with its ritualistic pottery, linking the pot as a symbol of creation with the rhythm of life. ~ B.D. Garga
ACTORS
Harzi Prajapati, Mumbai
Khemrak Kumar, Molela
Chatur bhuj Kumar, Molela
Laali, Mulela
Sony Devi, Savgua
Pallavi Appan, Pudukottai
Avamugam, Pudukottai
Om Prakash, Azamgarh
Neelamnidevi, Manipur
Ismail Siddiqui, Kutch
Anita Kanwar
Robin Das
Ashok Sharma
Documentary
Country: India
Language: Hindi with Hardcoded English Subtitles
Release Date: 27 March 1985
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min)
Shot on Color: Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 250T 5293)
Processed at Prasad Film Lab, Chennai(then Madras)
Original Aspect Ratio: 1:1.33
Digitally restored at NFAI, Pune.
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A great film! I saw it at Pacific Film Archive U.C. Berkeley in 1985. I instantly became aware that India was producing films of real depth and beauty NOW! I just watched it for the 2nd time today. It views even better now. More Mani Kaul!
Are you a film maker?
Pottery and poetry, in the same way as a Japanese pictorial aesthetic film about tea ceremonies (Rikyu), you almost feel like you are meditating.....
Watched this as I rose with the sun this morning.
A pleasing way to start the morning of my twentieth.
Spell binding experience to watch .
Salutations to the Director and the whole team.
Thanks .
Thanks a ton for the upload. The best way to experience the passing time!
Thank You very much for uploading this. Mesmerizing.
speechless !! a painting was done with so many layers .
Spectacular and sublime... thank you for uploading... my first Mani Kaul film. I was spellbound throughout
camera work 📌 venu sir 🥰
Thank you for the upload! Will watch it soon.
Thanks for uploading a restored copy. Any possibility to get Satah se Uthata Aadmi?
It's there on UA-cam..
I am from that generation who is like to have a glimpses of this kind of India. Which has been lost today. So I can say, I did not simply watch, I inhaled the film and it left me in a trance. A big salute to the team. I need to watch it more...atleast couple of times.
More mani kaul please
Thank you so so much for this. I have subscribed and am hoping to see more films by Mani Kaul, especially Uski Roti, posted on this channel.
thanks you....its Precious
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Great
Venu Sir, Camera work is super.
everything can fall into place if population can be controlled and sound good support systems get created, it's my challenge that before restructuring infrastructures pay attention to human lives first and peace harmony prevails.
any idea where the end sequence was shot?
Why everybody act so wierd in the films of Mani Kaul 😬
Mani Kaul sahab shyam Bengal shahab ap ka jawab nahi
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