No other recent Indian film has received so much acclaim for its cinematography as “Ship of Theseus”. The film won technical excellence awards at Mumbai and Tokyo film festivals and the award for best cinematography at Transilvania Film Festival. The awards have taken cinematographer Pankaj Kumar by surprise whose idea was “to keep the cinematography completely invisible”!
Pankaj Kumar, who graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) in 2004, comes across as a passionate, unassuming and highly articulate person. During his school days, he chanced upon Tarkovsky’s “Mirror” and “Andrei Rublev” on Doordarshan. The poetic imagery of the master left him eternally inspired to seek a career in cinema.
DearCinema Associate Editor Nandita Dutta in conversation with Pankaj Kumar.
Pankaj Kumar
On winning accolades for Ship of Theseus’s cinematography (Best Cinematography award at Transilvania, Best Artistic Contribution award in Tokyo and Jury award for Technical Excellence...
Pankaj Kumar, who graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) in 2004, comes across as a passionate, unassuming and highly articulate person. During his school days, he chanced upon Tarkovsky’s “Mirror” and “Andrei Rublev” on Doordarshan. The poetic imagery of the master left him eternally inspired to seek a career in cinema.
DearCinema Associate Editor Nandita Dutta in conversation with Pankaj Kumar.
Pankaj Kumar
On winning accolades for Ship of Theseus’s cinematography (Best Cinematography award at Transilvania, Best Artistic Contribution award in Tokyo and Jury award for Technical Excellence...
- 7/8/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Ship of Theseus
Anand Gandhi’s highly anticipated film Ship Of Theseus premieres in India at the Mumbai Film Festival on October 24. The film recently won a Special Mention by the Sutherland Award Jury at 56th BFI London Film Festival and is screening at the ongoing Tokyo Film Festival. It had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Anand Gandhi talks about his debut feature here:
What is Ship of Theseus about?
Ship of Theseus is a philosophical paradox of identity and change. As the planks of Theseus’ ship needed repair, it was replaced part-by-part, up to a point where not a single part from the original ship remained in it, anymore. Is it, then, still the same ship? My film probes this question in a metaphorical sense. “How do we know where we end and our environment begins,” wonders one of the characters in the film.
Anand Gandhi’s highly anticipated film Ship Of Theseus premieres in India at the Mumbai Film Festival on October 24. The film recently won a Special Mention by the Sutherland Award Jury at 56th BFI London Film Festival and is screening at the ongoing Tokyo Film Festival. It had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Anand Gandhi talks about his debut feature here:
What is Ship of Theseus about?
Ship of Theseus is a philosophical paradox of identity and change. As the planks of Theseus’ ship needed repair, it was replaced part-by-part, up to a point where not a single part from the original ship remained in it, anymore. Is it, then, still the same ship? My film probes this question in a metaphorical sense. “How do we know where we end and our environment begins,” wonders one of the characters in the film.
- 10/22/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Ship of Theseus is the first feature film from director Anand Gandhi, and, as its title suggests, it explores the philosophical concept of the paradox of Theseus. As described by the Greek philosopher Plutarch, the paradox is this: if an object has any or all of its parts replaced, does it remain the same object?
The film, then, traces the stories of three individuals, all of whom are affected by this conundrum. Each of them must deal with the change that is wrought in their lives and in themselves either after an organ transplant (in the case of the photographer Aliya and the stockbroker Nivan), or before it (the monk Maitreya).
Aliya (Aida Elkashef) is blind as a result of a corneal infection. Despite this, she works as a photographer, relying on her intuition to fuel her creative output. In addition, she has developed a way of working with her...
The film, then, traces the stories of three individuals, all of whom are affected by this conundrum. Each of them must deal with the change that is wrought in their lives and in themselves either after an organ transplant (in the case of the photographer Aliya and the stockbroker Nivan), or before it (the monk Maitreya).
Aliya (Aida Elkashef) is blind as a result of a corneal infection. Despite this, she works as a photographer, relying on her intuition to fuel her creative output. In addition, she has developed a way of working with her...
- 9/7/2012
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
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