'Black Pot and Movement' selected for Experimenta 2013
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 18 2013 :
After the recent selection of 'Kungyee', a documentary film directed by independent filmmaker of the state Chaoba Thiyam for World Premiere at Aperture Festival, Asia Pacific International Ethnographic Documentary Festival at Melbourne, Australia slated for November 22 to 23, in yet another feat of the filmmaker, his experimental short film "Black Pot and Movement" has been selected for screening at the prestigious EXPERIMENTA 2013 � the Festival of Moving Image Art in India , scheduled for Nov 27th � December 1st at the Goethe Institute, Bangalore.
The film had been earlier screened at the Switzerland/Zurcher Theater Spektakel Festival 2013 in August.
The "Black Pot and Movement" is a search for a new movement by two dancers (Mayuka Ueno Gayer from Japan and Surjit Nongmeikapam (Bonbon) from Manipur picking up the Longpi Chaphu (Black Pot) in Manipur as an interface between the body and the region.
The film is produced, conceptualized and performed by Mayuka Ueno Gayer & Surjit Nongmeikapam (Bonbon), with director of Photography by Saikhom Ratan and supported by the Japan Foundation, New Delhi.